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Another weird I noticed a few years back was in Montana. I was in a lot of rural, less well-to-do parts of the state. After maybe a week I rolled into Whitefish, set up camp and hit up the Safeway. Whitefish is in a more affluent area of the state, in part thanks to tourism from Glacier N.P. At the Safeway I noticed a lot of fit looking people, including fit looking children, driving nice, well-kept vehicles buying healthy food. I hadn't noticed what I had not seen up until then until I saw what I did there.
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I've read that theory, but if the taste stimulus just activates a brainstem reflex transiently, how is that superior to merely stretching the muscle and breaking the cramp?
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From what I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any real dispute that gross obesity is a poor man's sport.
This is going to sound horrible, but when I buy a used car, the first thing I look at is the condition of the seats. If there is any wear or sag, it's a pass.
This is going to sound horrible, but when I buy a used car, the first thing I look at is the condition of the seats. If there is any wear or sag, it's a pass.
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The nervous system works in mysterious ways?
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I don't think that's horrible.
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EDIT: I realize that many don't find those tempting, but really, they're calibrated to hit the areas where I don't think we evolved a "That's Too Much" sensor - fat, starch, sugar, the things our distant ancestors could never get enough of.
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That's a fact. Thinking bad things about fat people themselves is unfounded and judgmental. Calling obesity a voluntary condition is also ridiculous.
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It is an interesting turn, that in the past, pale skin and a voluptuous figure in women was a sign of wealth, because 1) you didn't have to work outside and 2) you had enough food to overeat, but now it's the opposite - you have enough time and money to exercise outside and to eat healthy. Largely (haha) because calories are cheap now, especially in the most tempting forms - think McDonalds, Doritos and Entenmann's.
EDIT: I realize that many don't find those tempting, but really, they're calibrated to hit the areas where I don't think we evolved a "That's Too Much" sensor - fat, starch, sugar, the things our distant ancestors could never get enough of.
EDIT: I realize that many don't find those tempting, but really, they're calibrated to hit the areas where I don't think we evolved a "That's Too Much" sensor - fat, starch, sugar, the things our distant ancestors could never get enough of.
Ice cream is my nemesis. I finally told my wife to stop buying it and refuse to do so even if I beg.
With that, I'll admit that I'm not a poster child for fitness and healthy eating.
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Fantastic display of sportsmanship in the TDF today. Classy and respectful competition.
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I don't agree with fat shaming, but I am not so sure fat acceptance is a good strategy either.
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She should have seen the MG Midget a teacher of mine owned. I used to think he weighed 250, but having been 240 at one point, I'm pretty sure he was at least 280. With him in it, the car had a very pronounced lean to the left, which only moderated a bit when he got out. Mind you, the pre-1970 MGBs and Midgets had a surprising amount of legroom - I couldn't put the seat in mine all the way back, and I'm 6'.
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Of the 6 of us, the older 4 have always been slender, but the last two of us, my sister and I, despite being skinny kids, struggled with weight after the age of 30. I don't know what the difference is, since the genetics come from the same pool, BUT we also grew up in somewhat of a different time. Sugary cereals were all the rage when we were kids, for example. Sodas became more prevalent, and larger. Candy, ice cream, etc. all more prominent, even though we did generally eat a healthy diet and as I say, we were both rail thin as kids, all the way through high school. So, did the greater exposure to fattening foods as youngsters change something in our epigenetics, even without us becoming overweight in our childhoods? Or did it simply condition us to want/expect more caloric foods than the older sibs?
I used to work with a guy, really skinny. He said he COULD NOT gain weight, no matter what he ate. If he overate, at night it was like his metabolism kicked into overdrive and burned it off.
As far as fat shaming vs fat acceptance, I sometimes think that's the wrong question. It shouldn't be whether you're overweight or not, but whether you're fit, because you can be skinny and unfit, too.
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If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
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some of that stuff with them now - but some remains
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My take is It's obviously both, i.e. a behavioral disorder like depression or mania, which people still think are the fault of patients. In my opinion, those who claim it's a "lack of willpower" are simply naming something nobody understands and remind me of the religious folks who think we'd all be Gay if we didn't keep our evil impulses in check.
If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process is dumb and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process is dumb and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
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My take is It's obviously both, i.e. a behavioral disorder like depression or mania, which people still think are the fault of patients. In my opinion, those who claim it's a "lack of willpower" are simply naming something nobody understands and remind me of the religious folks who think we'd all be Gay if we didn't keep our evil impulses in check.
If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process is dumb and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process is dumb and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
WRT obesity, look at kids in grade school. In first grade, there were already skinny kids, heftier kids, and downright fat kids. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a moral failing on the part of the last, nor any greater strength of character in the first. So, 40 years down the road, the one who were always skinny telling the ones who were always fat that "they just need to try harder" is simple cruelty.
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One of the most destructive things in mental health is the prevalent belief that people who are depressed, or anxious, or have any number of other related problems "just need to try harder". If you're suffering depression, you already feel worthless. So you try to try harder, and you're still depressed, but now you've also FAILED at getting yourself out of it.
WRT obesity, look at kids in grade school. In first grade, there were already skinny kids, heftier kids, and downright fat kids. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a moral failing on the part of the last, nor any greater strength of character in the first. So, 40 years down the road, the one who were always skinny telling the ones who were always fat that "they just need to try harder" is simple cruelty.
WRT obesity, look at kids in grade school. In first grade, there were already skinny kids, heftier kids, and downright fat kids. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a moral failing on the part of the last, nor any greater strength of character in the first. So, 40 years down the road, the one who were always skinny telling the ones who were always fat that "they just need to try harder" is simple cruelty.
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My take is It's obviously both, i.e. a behavioral disorder like depression or mania, which people still think are the fault of patients. In my opinion, those who claim it's a "lack of willpower" are simply naming something nobody understands and remind me of the religious folks who think we'd all be Gay if we didn't keep our evil impulses in check.
If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process is dumb and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
If you believe it's primarily behavioral, the question is what is driving such massively self-destructive behavior. There are very pretty good data suggesting that distorted appetite and satiation in obesity are defending a body fat level that somehow got set way too high for reasons we don't understand at all. Obesity is NOT part of an adaptation to food scarcity, it's just a tendency which can't manifest itself under those conditions, so it didn't get bred out. A lot of smart people view excess fat as the body's way dealing with and detoxifying an energy overload, not an adaptive way way of stocking up.
Fat acceptance can obviously be taken too far. Obesity is obviously bad and all the behaviors which lead to it should be discouraged, but once the switch is flipped, yelling at people to turn off and reverse a powerful and likely permanent underlying process is dumb and making them responsible for a situation which all evidence suggests most people are helpless to control is, in my opinion, pretty dumb.
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