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caloric intake reduction while sustaining burn 100% reduces weight. I'm not going to dig through all your cites but you essentially shouldn't cite a Kevin Hall article for anything; I was in the room for his ASN keynote in 2019, the man's an embarrassment to the entire field. You are...much too overconfident in your, ah, "paradigm reconsidering" framing of this matter. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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drat man nice post. What's messed up is that "fat-phobia" in society doesn't seem much less strong among those who are fat. I think the effect is even more pronounced than internalized racism. Even if the correlation of obesity with poor health outcomes is spurious, there's a certain part of me that just wants to be smaller, and says "yes please give me the magic pill that does that." Discendo Vox posted:caloric intake reduction while sustaining burn 100% reduces weight. I'm not going to dig through all your cites but you essentially shouldn't cite a Kevin Hall article for anything; I was in the room for his ASN keynote in 2019, the man's an embarrassment to the entire field. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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pork never goes bad posted:Do you have evidence for the bolded part, here? You call it obvious but it's definitely not obvious to me given that it's been the predominant cultural position in the West for centuries and a cornerstone of public health advice for just as long but has not made any dent in obesity rates. In fact, given that no population has sustainably reduced average weight as a result of policy efforts, I'd suggest that anything we view as obvious in this debate should be viewed with a great deal of skepticism. I have proof of the bolded part: when people don’t eat calories, they die of starvation after loosing weight. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Bar Ran Dun posted:I was “overweight” by BMI when I was an athlete (I was a captain of the swim team at a service academy). During the training trip, one day I ran ten miles, had four hours of practice in the water(so like a marathon’s worth ) and lifted and was like just one day that week.
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Failed Imagineer posted:BMI is a population statistic which gets frequently misused as a personal health metric. Frequently is underselling it. They put one on the fat list with extra PT and a diet at the academy based on BMI alone, unless you were an athlete. The pinch fat test and things like neck / chest / waist measurements were the far secondary metric. Most doctors use it first too.
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PharmerBoy posted:Something I had never considered until the proximity of the Fox settlement and now the Disney/Florida lawsuit: the state doesn't have the option of settling in something like this do they? FL officials aren't turning against DeSantis, because they don't have the spines to ever do such a thing that might be seen as unloyal and Commie Pinko Woke Demoratic. They're just getting very pissy while also full force rubber stamping everything that passes their desk. On the other hand, yes, now that they've passed the law there is no real settlement. They could possibly agree to replace the board of brainless DeSantis cronies as part of a settlement, but it's highly unlikely Disney would accept that. The compromise settlement was Disney letting DeSantis get the win on paper while in actuality nothing changes until, at best, 20 years after the last grandchild of King Chuck dies. However, since the board of sycophants and DeSantis have decided that they want to fight, Disney is going to give them a fight. While Disney was 100% preparing various legal outs from the day DeSantis got his tighty whities in a bunch, I'm guessing that the threat to build a prison right next to Disney World in retaliation was the point where Mickey fully unshackled the lawyers and told them that Puddin' Hands just called their mom a bitch.
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Discendo Vox posted:caloric intake reduction while sustaining burn 100% reduces weight. I'm not going to dig through all your cites but you essentially shouldn't cite a Kevin Hall article for anything; I was in the room for his ASN keynote in 2019, the man's an embarrassment to the entire field. Can you cite the bolded part showing that this is true in humans who restrict calories as part of a diet? Either you are making a trivially true point that is useless in the discussion of obesity management and public policy related to obesity or you are making a false point. Re the Hall citation, to make the same point, see this study on Biggest Loser participants. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989512/ Or see the review by Traci Mann that I cited on the effectiveness of diets.
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cat botherer posted:BMI is a good population-level measure, and is accurate on a personal level for the vast majority of people - there's not that many college athletes or people who have unusual muscle mass. There's a lot of people who think BMI doesn't apply to them, because they're totally jacked from using Nautilus machines at the Y a couple times a week so they don't have to stop eating at McDonald's (no shame to anybody, but self-delusion isn't healthy either). Do you believe that having an overweight BMI is unhealthy in and of itself? Do you have data that shows people with overweight BMIs and good biomarkers have worse health outcomes? If not, why do we not simply use biomarker measurement to manage individual health and dispense with this lovely, harmful idea that we can determine people's health by looking at them.
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Mellow Seas posted:I don't know anything about Hall, but I don't think anybody is disputing that. The point is that maintaining 100% burn requires an increase - sometimes a dramatic increase - in activity levels, if you are under caloric restriction. Reducing calories in, all else being equal, also reduces calories out. Not remotely to the same proportion, and caloric reduction remains the actual causal mechanism of weight reduction. pork never goes bad posted:Can you cite the bolded part showing that this is true in humans who restrict calories as part of a diet? Either you are making a trivially true point that is useless in the discussion of obesity management and public policy related to obesity or you are making a false point. You're at a ten in certainty and defensiveness here, and you should be at maybe a two. You've also once again shifted the claim to "restricting calories as part of a diet". In doing so, you're reframing the claim in a manner that equivocates between caloric reduction, the "trivially true", and something you seem to have latched onto from a set of heavily promoted research on diet and weight loss. That "dieting" doesn't work does not mean that diet change, specifically caloric reduction, does. Your sources are not as good as you think they are, generally- I am curious where you're getting them. The Biggest Loser study isn't going to be particularly ecologically valid (also it's still part of Hall's work). You're functionally working backward from Hall's framing of the issue. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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I think the analysis of social stigma and BMI being confused for an individual indicator and not a population indicator are good points, but some of this seems pretty questionable. Do you have a source that there are no real health improvements for obese people who lose weight on a calorie restricted diet/obese people can't lose weight on a calorie-restricted diet? The source you provided says that being mildly overweight has no major impact on life expectancy, but that being obese definitely does. There are also problems in between "killing you" and "nothing" that are linked to obesity. I also don't think there is really any evidence I have been able to find that weight stigma from doctors is the reason that eating disorders are on the rise. I've never heard that before and can't really find anything to back it up via google.
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pork never goes bad posted:Can you cite the bolded part showing that this is true in humans who restrict calories as part of a diet? Either you are making a trivially true point that is useless in the discussion of obesity management and public policy related to obesity or you are making a false point. Discendo Vox posted:
The main thing that makes losing weight hard is that if you eat less food than you usually do, even if that's more than you need, your brain pitches a fit, and 9 times out of 10 (or slightly more, statistically) you end up eating what you were before. (This is supported by how Ozempic works really really well by just telling your brain to shut the gently caress up about being hungry, without doing anything to offset metabolic effects.) The metabolic effects don't help though - in my experience, mostly by making weight loss excruciatingly slow, and making it hard to keep morale up - and seem to increase in severity the more one "yo-yos" - I don't have data on that, I'll see if I can find anything and would be interested in what you know. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Hall has also benefitted from this distortion, because he's used it as part of the promotion of the NOVA framing of dietary practices, which if it successfully infects policymaking is going to wind up wasting a lot of money and potentially killing a lot of people. I believe I've written about the "highly processed food" bullshit in here before. edit: It makes a hell of an impression when you sit in a room for an hour and watch a man say things like "I chose my independent variable because I read a magazine article about it", "I didn't consider alternative independent variables", "we adjusted things to get stronger results", and saying he'd never though of a whole laundry list of really basic confounding variables that he could have controlled. That the man has access to a metabolic lab is criminal. edit 2: for clarity, when I say "metabolic lab", running a longer-term high-rigor weight loss study means basically placing all participants in a location and completely controlling and measuring their intake and, often, output, for an extended period. That's really expensive- there are only a handful of such places in the country, and it's really hard to get the funding or access to use them. Hall using the NIH one is like using the large hadron collider for a month to write an article about how homeopathy is real. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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pork never goes bad posted:Do you have evidence for the bolded part, here? You call it obvious but it's definitely not obvious to me given that it's been the predominant cultural position in the West for centuries and a cornerstone of public health advice for just as long but has not made any dent in obesity rates. In fact, given that no population has sustainably reduced average weight as a result of policy efforts, I'd suggest that anything we view as obvious in this debate should be viewed with a great deal of skepticism. This is an excellent post. Anecdotally, I basically gave myself an eating disorder in high school (I'm a woman, it was easy, and fwiw I am also tall). At my smallest weight I was still considered overweight by the BMI and I have noticed a distinct change in my metabolism since this happened. On top of that, relearning better eating habits, not falling back into heavy restriction (1200-1500/day was my goal in high school) and exercise, and not being able to discuss weight at any doctor's appointment pretty much ever remain challenges a decade-plus later. You are absolutely correct that we need to rethink how we give fat people medical care because I should never have been praised for dropping a significant portion of my body weight at 17 without questions about how I was doing it, because I am now living with that damage in more ways than one.
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Weight stigma and mistreatment in a clinical setting is a profound problem, and one that doesn't appear to be consistently addressed in more recent and otherwise beneficial reforms to medical education. While not quite as bad as it was a generation or two ago, most clinicians and treatment guidelines still rely on BMI due to its availability, and instruction on how to address different weight and health scenarios are inconsistent, at best. The scenario Mirotic describes should be less common in younger doctors who have had training around eating disorders, but the other end of the spectrum, on addressing and responding to individuals with higher weight, is really poor.
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Following upMellow Seas posted:The metabolic effects ... seem to increase in severity the more one "yo-yos" - I don't have data on that, I'll see if I can find anything and would be interested in what you know. But anyway, here's a pretty straightforward "no": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120814213252.htm from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Here's one from NIH that does not have a handily simplified journalistic summary: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917653/ From what I can understand, that one seems to be saying that there are a lot of chemical processes working against somebody who has had a lot of weight fluctuation, but they don't seem to be metabolic per se. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Weight stigma and mistreatment in a clinical setting is a profound problem, and one that doesn't appear to be consistently addressed in more recent and otherwise beneficial reforms to medical education. While not quite as bad as it was a generation or two ago, most clinicians and treatment guidelines still rely on BMI due to its availability, and instruction on how to address different weight and health scenarios are inconsistent, at best. The scenario Mirotic describes should be less common in younger doctors who have had training around eating disorders, but the other end of the spectrum, on addressing and responding to individuals with higher weight, is really poor. Again anecdotal, but my current doctor is younger and still managed to trigger me so badly at my last physical that I went home and cried. As you say, it is extremely inconsistent, and "should" does not mean "is". If you are far and go to a doctor - particularly if you're a woman - it's a crapshoot to find someone who won't make you feel like dogshit. At best.
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I'm certainly not beginning from Hall's work. I'm beginning from the observation that the dominant paradigms have failed repeatedly and over a pretty long timescale to make a dent in the problem they purport to address. When people talk about the obesity epidemic, the usual reason given for addressing it is the health impacts it has and the costs of those health impacts for society. My fundamental point is that if we want to improve health outcomes, we should use better proxies for health than weight. We have those proxies. The secondary point I make is that the continued focus on weight causes concrete harms which those who purport to care about obesity fail to account for or adequately study. Our approach does not work and it does cause harm. We should change our approach. It's fair enough to quibble with the details and citations I provide or tell me that my certainty mismatches the evidence, Discendo Vox, but do you disagree with the prior two sentences? Leon - Try searching "weight stigma and eating disorders" or look at the Tracy Harrop link I posted. She has a lot of work on this. Some clarifications - I said that weight stigma in the doctor's office was the main driver for EDs in overweight people. This was an overstatement. Firstly, I should not have said that it's the main driver. It's a major driver. Weight stigma out of the doctor's office is also a major driver. There may be other drivers. Secondly, weight stigma is also a major driver of eating disorders in non-overweight people. Edits to fix some grammar errors from when I rewrote sentences while typing.. pork never goes bad fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Nutrition science research is a toxic wasteland, generally, because high quality research often starts at the same level of cost as pharmaceutical development and then layers on additional confounds and intersecting fields like behavioral science. Researchers basically never have adequate competence to cover all the relevant material in a given area, and the entire field also lacks the level of sustained public funding necessary to do that research- so the whole area is filled with industry funding, covering both good and bad and completely fraudulent research. And you have to have insider knowledge or do a ton of digging to even begin to know the potential conflicts of interest involved.pork never goes bad posted:I'm certainly not beginning from Hall's work. I'm beginning from the observation that the dominant paradigms have failed repeatedly and over a pretty long timescale to make a dent in the problem they purport to address. When people talk about the obesity epidemic, the usual reason given for addressing it is the health impacts it has and the costs of those health impacts for society. My fundamental point is that if we want to improve health outcomes, we should use better proxies for health than weight. We have those proxies. Your "beginning observation" has no relationship to the actual claims about caloric reduction and weight loss that you're attacking. Your two sentences aren't meaningfully engaged with these claims either. Weight is a useful proxy for health, obviously, and it is not and has never been the appropriate sole proxy for health- and those other proxies are also used. The "dominant paradigm," "our approach", that you're attacking isn't well defined or characterized, and seems detached from what people are actually talking about. More broadly, I encourage you to stop relying on Kuhn. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Mellow Seas posted:I think the main contributor is cable TV, video games and PCs making sitting on your rear end way, way, way more fun than it ever was in the past. There are a lot of other things about the food supply, increase in sedentary work, etc, that contribute, and yeah maybe even water contaminants or viruses, but I really do think it's mostly all the super awesome cool stuff we can now do with our brains while, physically, doing pretty much nothing. Reading books? Not quite as addictive in many ways but when I was younger and had more time I definitely have "wasted" almost entire days sitting on the couch reading. I don't think that was/is quite as common as TV or video game marathons though, people tend to get a bit tired of reading after a bit and get up to move around. Mellow Seas posted:I don't know anything about Hall, but I don't think anybody is disputing that. The point is that maintaining 100% burn requires an increase - sometimes a dramatic increase - in activity levels, if you are under caloric restriction. Reducing calories in, all else being equal, also reduces calories out. How's that? just to throw around made up numbers, if you're living a fairly sedentary lifestyle and eating 3k calories per day, and you cut that by I dunno 700 calories per day but don't change your routine (no more exercise, no less activity) how is calories out also being reduced? Is the claim that metabolism slows down and so you don't go anywhere with that? Is there a legitimate source that can be cited about this? e: like I'm actually curious, people say a lot of stuff about "metabolism changes!" but it seems like something incredibly hard to quantify but is used very commonly in all things weight related. Anecdotally I've always found calories in/out and exercise incredibly effective at losing or maintaining weight. It's often more about finding how to maintain a level of calorie intake and avoiding cravings and such, and tracking every single thing you eat/drink so that you have accurate information. That sucks and is hard for a lot of people and can lead to bad places mentally for some, which is part of why it's all hard to do. I feel like the addictive quality of most snack food etc these days, with high salty and sugary content, is incredibly hard to ignore or eat in moderation. A serving size of crackers or chips or something 1 oz and like 150 calories, but how many people do you think just eat 1 handful and leave it at that? On top of that you can't think of it as a "diet" where you're doing it for a bit to lose weight and then you can ignore it. It's 100% about changing how and what you eat and developing new habits, not things that you do for a little while. I think that's why a ton of people lose weight and then gain it back...the pressure and lure to overeat is very high with the kind of foods that are common these days and changing your overall diet to stay within a range conducive to weight loss or management at a lower weight is really tough.
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How many calories are excreted out of a diet? If you consume 3k calories per day but excrete 800 of them, could you then reduce your caloric intake to say 2.5k calories daily and your body goes into panic and excretes only 300 instead and thus netting you nothing but hunger pangs? Does weight lose research methodically count calories out via excretion like it does via exercise/physical and mental activity? Heck, is mental activity measured? Edit: semi-beaten by Levitate
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Mellow Seas posted:I think that as neuroscience advances we will ultimately find that almost nothing anybody does is ever actually their fault. Like, including things that we would all consider inexcusable and indefensible with our current understanding of the brain. As a counselor I don't think this is true. Obviously some things are chemically based which is why I take meds for my ADHD because I can't produce the chemicals my neurotransmitters need for that on my own anymore than a diabetic can produce insulin. However, there's a lot of things that people can change through developing things like better coping mechanisms and emotional regulation. I know this because I've both done it myself and helped others do it.
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Levitate posted:Reading books? Not quite as addictive in many ways but when I was younger and had more time I definitely have "wasted" almost entire days sitting on the couch reading. I don't think that was/is quite as common as TV or video game marathons though, people tend to get a bit tired of reading after a bit and get up to move around. Here you go. A leading theory on the biological level is that BMR decreases when you lose weight; lowering the TDEE is a greater amount than expected relative to the loss of body mass.[8] This lowering of TDEE is referred to as adaptive thermogenesis, decreasing energy expenditure to match the lower caloric intake dietarily, thus halting or decreasing the rate of weight loss. [...] To achieve weight loss, people reach a point where their energy expenditure is lower than it used to be. Research shows that people who lose weight secrete higher levels of ghrelin, a hormone known to increase hunger, opposite of the effect of the hormone leptin involved in satiety. These hormones can also impact and increase fatigue.[10][11] Studies have shown an increase in ghrelin also promotes the conservation of fat stores.[12]
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Mizaq posted:How many calories are excreted out of a diet? If you consume 3k calories per day but excrete 800 of them, could you then reduce your caloric intake to say 2.5k calories daily and your body goes into panic and excretes only 300 instead and thus netting you nothing but hunger pangs? Does weight lose research methodically count calories out via excretion like it does via exercise/physical and mental activity? Heck, is mental activity measured? What do you mean by mental activity? Are you saying that it is possible to burn excess calories in any meaningful way by thinking harder/differently? According to every source I can find, brain activity variance makes no real difference in caloric use. If you were maximizing your brain activity for 24 hours straight, it would result in a change of about 17 calories. And nobody is doing mentally complex thinking for 24 hours in a row all day every day, so the actual impact would be even lower. quote:That means during a typical day, a person uses about 320 calories just to think. quote:But if you’re hoping to think yourself slim, Raichle says you’re out of luck. While the brain burns a lot of energy, any changes in brain activity and energy use during a tough mental task are minute: “maybe a 5% change against the backdrop of all brain activity,” he says. https://time.com/5400025/does-thinking-burn-calories/
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Mellow Seas posted:I think that as neuroscience advances we will ultimately find that almost nothing anybody does is ever actually their fault. Like, including things that we would all consider inexcusable and indefensible with our current understanding of the brain. Space Cadet Omoly posted:As a counselor I don't think this is true. Obviously some things are chemically based which is why I take meds for my ADHD because I can't produce the chemicals my neurotransmitters need for that on my own anymore than a diabetic can produce insulin. However, there's a lot of things that people can change through developing things like better coping mechanisms and emotional regulation. I know this because I've both done it myself and helped others do it. The claim can be true in a fundamental and broad sense based on external causality, but that's more a question of whether the concept of free will exists. Maybe we should bring some philosophy thread users in here to talk about the problems of compatibilism.
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Levitate posted:Is the claim that metabolism slows down and so you don't go anywhere with that? Is there a legitimate source that can be cited about this? e: like I'm actually curious, people say a lot of stuff about "metabolism changes!" but it seems like something incredibly hard to quantify but is used very commonly in all things to stay within a range conducive to weight loss or management at a lower weight is really tough. University of Alabama Researchers posted:In premenopausal women with overweight, metabolic adaptation after a 16% weight loss increases the length of time necessary to achieve weight loss goals. Discendo Vox posted:The claim can be true in a fundamental and broad sense based on external causality, but that's more a question of whether the concept of free will exists. Maybe we should bring some philosophy thread users in here to talk about the problems of compatibilism.
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Mellow Seas posted:Here's a recent study I found, it's limited in scope but supports the principle: https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/12593-weight-loss-may-take-longer-than-expected-due-to-metabolic-adaptation UAB has a good rep, as does Obesity, but at a minimum I can say the research isn't "new"- a casualty of the university PR department. The actual article, linked in the UAB press release and here, helpfully includes the concept of metabolic adaptation in the "already known" inset box (and in the citations). The actual study's claims and quality, well...I wish they'd gotten higher adherence and an interaction term. The findings are solid, though- they reinforce (though, again, it's not new) that adaptation occurs to some potentially significant degree. The sample and other data issues mean it can't be generalized in terms of the extent, though. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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NBC has a new survey out of American attitudes on cultural/social issues. Full crosstabs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23789655-full-nbc-news-april-2023-poll The interesting thing is that basically everyone agrees that discrimination is wrong, but nobody can really agree on what constitutes discrimination. People also have conflicting views/definitions of different things and you have roughly 70% of Americans agreeing with both "the government needs to encourage traditional values" and "the government needs to encourage tolerance of different lifestyles." https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/1651598950149812224 https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/1651602402246639619 This result from the poll is basically America.txt. Roughly 80% of Democrats think trans rights have not gone far enough and roughly 80% of Republicans think it has gone way too far. https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1651320297725779969 Roughly 3/4 of Americans have heard of the term "woke," but nobody knows what the actual definition of "woke" is. However, everyone has very strong opinions on it despite being unable to agree on a definition: quote:But a middle-aged Republican man from Kentucky described being woke as “an excuse to run rampant and do what you please under a false pretense that you are for a righteous cause.” And an older independent woman from Wisconsin described it as “newfangled gobbledygook” and “a bunch of B.S.” It's within the margin of error, but this is also the first poll NBC has ever done where a majority of Americans say that U.S. society is racist. But, a large chunk of people also think that society is racist, but people are not judged by the color of the skin - which is another odd situation where people have seemingly contradictory views. Article writeup: quote:‘A country on fire’: New poll finds America polarized over culture, race and ‘woke’ Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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I'm failing to see what the real disageement is about here. The two statements seem to be "When you reduce calories consumed faster than calories burned" and "when you reduce calories consumed the body attempts to compensate and reminds you to eat more" and they're not at all incompatible. The first alone would imply that you cut 3500 calories from your weekly intake you'd lose a pound of fat. Adding the second doesn't contradict anything though, it just means it's less than a pound and you're hungrier and the diet is harder to maintain. Yeah, that's why it's hard. It's like if you cut someone's salary from $50,000 to $40,000. Their net worth a year later will probably not be $10,000 lower than it would have otherwise since they'll cut more corners. But they'll almost certainly lose money.
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quote:‘A country on fire’: New poll finds America polarized over culture, race and ‘woke’ I don't want to be overly pollyannaish - this is more about how terrible the past was than how good the present is, because the present is not particularly good. But Christ, in the 60s you had legal apartheid; you had poverty levels even higher than they are now; you had young men being forced, under threat of imprisonment to go to a war that killed eight times as many US soldiers as have died in this century. You had a cultural divide over whether women should be allowed to have jobs. People terrified of nuclear annihilation, the US government throwing coups all around the world. It doesn't make it feel any better if you are under the gun as the wedge demographic du Jour, but the insistence that we are living in a particularly divided time in US history seems off base to me. Our political system is more polarized, but I think there is actually a broader agreement on values. There is a divide among "the people" but it's exaggerated as an excuse for our leadership's abdication of responsibility.
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Two new studies out today that confirm trends among the youth that started about 15 years ago, but accelerated in the last 5, are still going on. Kids are having much less sex than they used to and loving nicotine products way more than they used to. Even "post-pandemic" the trends are still continuing. The late 90's and early 2000's campaigns against teen pregnancy and teen sex have combined with new forms of birth control being invented and Obamacare making most birth control free to succeed too well and now they are worried about having too few pregnancies and kids not having enough sex. Additionally, tobacco and nicotine use is going down overall (hitting a new record low), but nicotine product usage is still rising significantly among youth. The kids, especially young women, are also really into being bisexual. Kind of an interesting gender difference is that men are much more likely to identify as gay and very few identify as bi, but the opposite is true for women. Women are much more likely to identify as bisexual, but not many identify as lesbian. However, these distinctions may be purely hypothetical as most of the kids are celibate now. 70% of high schoolers now say they are virgins and 79% say they aren't currently sexually active. The youth of today are sexually open chewing tobacco and vaping enthusiast virgins. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1651673930279579673 https://twitter.com/AP/status/1651658767321145361 quote:NEW YORK (AP) — The first years of the pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex, according to a government survey. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The youth of today are sexually open chewing tobacco and vaping enthusiast virgins. I may need to borrow this quote....
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pork never goes bad posted:Can you cite the bolded part showing that this is true in humans who restrict calories as part of a diet? Either you are making a trivially true point that is useless in the discussion of obesity management and public policy related to obesity or you are making a false point. A lot of this commenting seems to be saying people are wrong and then, when pressed, admitting that they are right but then arguing that it's not important or its bad because the implications of saying it are bad? As far as persuasive tactics go, it's really not working well from my perspective, and you seem to want to convince people so I figured I'd point out that at least for me, another approach might see better results than that one. (To top it all off, the argument on the whole you are making here, in terms of implications, is way worse, since your actual argument seems to amount to "we should not help people lose weight, and its not a medical issue so insurance shouldn't cover weight loss pills or anything really for people who want it, because if its not causing serious survival-based health problems its obviously not a problem for people" which is bulllllllshit) Mellow Seas posted:Here's a recent study I found, it's limited in scope but supports the principle: https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/12593-weight-loss-may-take-longer-than-expected-due-to-metabolic-adaptation Why does this article read like it was poorly written by a robot? Anyway, in my anecdotal experience, the major influence to metabolic loss here is just... losing weight. Ignoring any larger metabolic adaptations that may occur or how long they might last, like those mentioned in that article (though its interesting that the article says it disappears after only a few weeks), lots of folks dieting don't really seem to grasp that the more of you there is, the more you burn, simply through basic body processes, and losing weight at a consistent rate means that even if nothing else was a factor you would still need to make regular downwards adjustments to your caloric intake. This is the big reason almost every CICO program I've seen has a floating target that changes on your current weight, and why as you lose weight there's increasing emphasis on the "out" part. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 27, 2023 |
# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:13 |
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Weight in this country is a super complex issue and is the end result of: * Overworked people who are too tired and depressed. * Accessible and calorie dense foods are cheaper than foods that are rich in vital nutrients * Not having enough time to make or prepare food for work or for dinner and get enough sleep and pursue non-work related passtimes that give life meaning. * No mental health care; food is a coping mechanism for many Americans * Abnormally stressful lives * Food-as-passtime; there are almost no places to go or things to do when you're poor that don't involve eating or spending money. We lack parks, trails, or easy walks even in most major cities. * Poor education about nutrition and inconsistent messaging (is milk good or bad for you?) * Generational problems that persist through genetics, upbringing, and circumstance "Just eat less and lose weight" or, "just eat better food" is an extremely privileged way to approach weight loss even when you're talking about individuals. I've gained 20 pounds in 10 years but am still a healthy-ish weight; I leave my house at 6am, get to work by 8 on many days. I get home at 6pm most days, and I have a disabled spouse that I help take care of. I have probably one or two hours per day that are not spoken for. I have definitely been guilty of skipping exercise or squeezing in an easy meal because it's all I have the energy for. Talking about this stuff on a society-wide scale and then it's just nonsense. You can't 'willpower' a demographic; you have to address the underlying issues. Some cities try to ban or tax sugary foods and that's great and all but you aren't addressing the underlying issue of why those foods are desirable.
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:17 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Frequently is underselling it. They put one on the fat list with extra PT and a diet at the academy based on BMI alone, unless you were an athlete. The pinch fat test and things like neck / chest / waist measurements were the far secondary metric. Most doctors use it first too. Insurers literally use personal BMI as a cutoff for covering bariatric surgery
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:46 |
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I should note that I view these weight loss meds with a degree of skepticism; post-covid, drug approval regulatory scrutiny is probably at an all-time nadir, and coverage of them (including their prior off-label use) will be at least in significant part a product of industrial promotion. None of this means they don't work; all of it means greater critical evaluation, especially in the longer term.
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:53 |
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A lot of these posts really demonstrates to me that food education is a huge problem in the US. Like saying that having grown up obese in the US and staying that why till I lived away from my mom. In no world are you so hard pressed that drive thru at rush hour is saving you time or money compared to a million slow cooker dishes or even slapping together a sandwich at home. HFCS is easily avoidable without paying extra at fancy places, it’s at walmart for store brand prices. Brands and bad education have kinda hosed us and made a lot of people give up. I don’t mean the desperately impoverished or those trapped in food deserts, I mean people who can somehow afford 5x fast food meals that are a days worth of calories alone a week, but also enough more calories to be at an unhealthy weight. We need a reboot from childhood on. Unfortunately I don’t see us getting us that any time soon. And yes, we need to treat obesity as something other than a moral failing. Another thing we don’t do, same way too many people think other substance abuses are like “yep just woke up today and decided to down a bottle of vodka bc I suck and am stupid. E: also work hours wise, it’s not that fast food is actually faster. It’s that getting home exhausted and beat down makes you want to not do poo poo. The gooniest of couch potatoes almost certainly would find a great, physical hobby be if anything from gardening to long walks to mountain climbing, if not for lack of time, money, and fatigue Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Apr 27, 2023 |
# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:54 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The youth of today are sexually open chewing tobacco and vaping enthusiast virgins. thread title
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:01 |
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Young people just eat each others' asses so technical virgins at best
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:02 |
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Jaxyon posted:Insurers literally use personal BMI as a cutoff for covering bariatric surgery This seems like the opposite of the problem people are complaining about? Like specifically what is wrong with the requirement here, I'm not sure what your complaint is? Edgar Allen Ho posted:In no world are you so hard pressed that drive thru at rush hour is saving you time or money compared to a million slow cooker dishes or even slapping together a sandwich at home. HFCS is easily avoidable without paying extra at fancy places, it’s at walmart for store brand prices. Total actual time and money is not actually the resource that's at a premium, though they can be as well, but generally it is capacity, complexity, practical time and money. Drive through meals have minimal overhead, minimal executive burden, and are very hard to gently caress up. Slow cooker dishes offer a hundred different things that need to be done and managed to make them happen and you can gently caress up at any of those steps. Home sandwiches are easier by a wide margin, but (and I say this as a sandwich lover) there's still at least a dozen potential failure points and a comparative increase in cognitive load. I know, I hit most of them pretty regularly and realize I've hosed myself yet again and end up ordering out instead because I just can't deal with yet another loving thing, you know? And that's working from home now, where everything is much simpler, I managed to gently caress up bringing sandwiches to the office at least twice a week on average. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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I would like a GWS thread on sandwich failure points.
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