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Underwhelming article that sort of works on the basis that people are unhealthy because they have failed to do the right things to be healthy in some way shape
by Quinzel 3y ago
Underwhelming article that sort of works on the basis that people are unhealthy because they have failed to do the right things to be healthy in some way shape or form (a.k.a: obesity is a moral failure by the person to exercise self-control and make good choices relating to their health). However, the truth of the matter is that obesity is a chronic illness and people are unhealthy actually more so due to a combination of environmental and genetic factors, and this is even more glaringly obvious in light of GLP-1 agonists like liraglutide and semaglutide.
- tekla 3y ago[flagged]
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoEverything is easy, if you ignore or don't understand any of the nuance of it.
- tekla 3y agoWeight loss is a thermodynamics problem. You eat less you lose weight,
- KittenInABox 3y agoProve it. Start a diet of 2k/cal a day of gasoline.
- tekla 3y agoCool, please provide how much gasoline I need to eat to generate 2k calories per day without it also killing me
- KittenInABox 3y agoIt's simply thermodynamics, so just drink a few oz of gasoline per day.
- spcebar 3y agoFor the interested, a gallon of gasoline is somewhere in the area of 31,000 calories, so around 7.6oz should do the trick. As for the second part, turning into a car is suggested.
- avery17 3y agoYes that is technically correct but its not very helpful. In practice weight loss is a mental health problem. You can explain thermodynamics to fat people all day, it wont help them lose weight.
- david-gpu 3y ago> In practice weight loss is a mental health problem We can easily make animal models obese by feeding them a diet rich in rapidly-absorbed carbohydrates. Are they obese due to mental health problems? Or is it the elevated insulin level induced by their diet?
- ehnto 3y agoPartially true, it is more complex than that though. Within the parameters of lifestyle it is not as easy since not everyone will burn off fat the same way in a caloric deficit that also allows them to keep functioning in your day to day life. Some people's resting metabolic is simply not that high either and so dieting alone is a slow and unhelpful process. Someone in that position will find it really hard to make progress if they treat it like a thermodynamics problem. They need a metamorphic change to their body to increase their energy usage; they will need to get fitter as well as diet. Not just excercise but actual fitness progress that changes their body.
- tekla 3y ago> it is more complex than that though No its not. Eat less and you will lose weight, humans do not ignore the laws of physics.
- ehnto 3y agoDismissive and reductionist advice that was obsolete years ago. Equal amounts true and useless. If it were that simple, we would just stop eating until we were thin, but since we would first get sick and then die before meeting our targets there must be more to it. Unless the entropy of a decaying corpose satisfies your fitness goals? The human body has a number of separate energy systems, both creation of and consumption of fat only happens in certain circumstances. If those circumstances aren't met, you don't burn fat at a rate that is sufficient for progress in a timeframe that satisfies most people's goals. This is just physiology, stuff we do understand not fitness psuedoscience. If you don't treat the problem like a human problem, instead of a physics problem, you will have an inefficient weightloss program that makes the human sad and then they quit.
- tekla 3y ago> If those circumstances aren't met, you don't burn fat at a rate that is sufficient for progress in a timeframe that satisfies most people's goals Irrelevant. Humans obey the laws of physics. An entire post of excuses. Eat less and you WILL lose weight. You can do it by eating nothing but sugar, Twinkies, or Big Macs. It doesn't matter. Many people have done this to disprove the bullshit that its more complicated than Calories In < Calories Out.
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- moogly 3y agoWere it easy, there wouldn't be any obese people. Now, _that_ is easy.
- anon-sre-srm 3y ago[flagged]
- snvzz 3y agoPut the fork down. It's really easy. The sugar-induced cravings go away in the first couple of days. It's just, they don't know about carbs vs fats or fasting. They eat 5 meals a day plus snacks. The majority of people, contrary to what seems to be the article's belief, do NOT have this information. And there are strong parties with interest in keeping it so.
- blackzetsu 3y agoAgree that environmental factors play role, however diet, exercise, sleep, stress, social life are also equally important
- Quinzel 3y agoMmm… but I would argue that diet, exercise, sleep, stress and social life are determined by environmental factors more so that personal choices…