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Zo
Feb 22, 2005

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This is pretty obvious. People don't arbitrarily choose to be fat. Only stupid and lazy people do so, and those traits are largely genetic.

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Zo
Feb 22, 2005

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8 track betamax posted:

Yeah just eat lots of sugar filled fruit

I know it's preferable to live in a world of simple rules like "sugar = bad", but we don't.

It's basically impossible to eat enough fruit that the sugar content exceeds healthy levels. In general they have lots of water and fiber and you'll feel full way before overeating. Then during digestion, the sugars take a lot of time to break down unlike corn syrup which just explodes into your liver. If everyone switched to a diet of 100% fruit (not even including veggies!), obesity would basically disappear. I think a few high sugar density exceptions exist though.

For example:

quote:

Dr. David Ludwig, the director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, said that sugar consumed in fruit is not linked to any adverse health effects, no matter how much you eat. In a recent perspective piece in The Journal of the American Medical Association, he cited observational studies that showed that increased fruit consumption is tied to lower body weight and a lower risk of obesity-associated diseases.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/07/31/making-the-case-for-eating-fruit/?referer=

Zo
Feb 22, 2005

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Zo
Feb 22, 2005

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Of course fat people under report their calorie intake. Everybody does it to some extent, fatties more so, necessarily.

For example: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36988065

The average British person under reports by 1000 calories a day. By extension, a fatty american probably under reports by 2000-3000 a day.

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