All I drink is diet soda. I rarely eat desserts. I often skip meals.
Many of these “I went on a diet and lost 40 lbs” people are probably scammers. There are a lot of fake reviews online, in every industry. The Internet is full of shills and bots.
All going on a diet does is slow down your metabolism. Your appetite decreases which decreases your metabolism and increases depression, making you gain more weight not lose weight.
I noticed that after I went on a diet, I have less tolerance for the cold, because my body doesn’t produce as much heat, which burns calories.
If some of these “I went on a diet and lost 40 lbs” people are telling the truth, then its because they are positive and motivated. These positive, happy and motivated people are high energy and lose weight because of their attitude.
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The real cause of Obesity is depression and car-centric infrastructure.
America has the most obesity in the world, why? America has the most car-centric infrastructure in the world. It is really simple, its not complicated. Car-centric infrastructure causes obesity.
Car-centrism sucks the life out of every city and cause them to go into debt. Car-centric infrastructure causes the city to look more and more ugly and polluted and stroads. This causes depression which causes obesity. Because of all the pollution and dangerous car-centric roads, people don’t want to exercise outside. People use a car whenever possible instead of walking or riding their bicycle. Trying to lose weight by dieting is futile, it just slows your metabolism, the way to lose weight is exercise, but people avoid exercise in ugly polluted car-centric cities.
Not true.Those groups are genetically more muscular which causes them to have a higher BMI than someone who is just fat.
‘’ Polynesian populations often exhibit higher lean muscle mass and greater bone density compared to European populations of similar BMI,‘’
Plus, weight gain is a lot more complex than just ‘counting calories’. There are many medications that cause weight gain despite the fact that a tiny pill has neglibile calories. That’s because the pill is affecting the hormones and/or metabolism.
It’s also about ‘what’ you eat. Anything that stresses the liver (like ‘diet’ drinks) is going to be bad for weight loss. If the liver isn’t functioning properly it will be extremely difficult to lose weight without essentially starving yourself. Good quality fats don’t make people fat, bad quality ones like trans fats do. Americans eat nothing but shit. That’s why they are fat.
While the rate of metabolism can differ from person to person and it can be harder for anyone to lose/gain weight: You cant just break reality.
If you exert more calories than what you take in, there is physically no way for you to gain weight unless you are god itself and are creating something from nothing.
That’s very interesting about polynesian populations! That’s a lot of cutting corpses and weighing, to get to that results Now, you say that it’s JUST because of that? Keep in mind that Kuwait and Qatar have higher BMI on average than USA, too.
Normal weight gain as something to do is more complicated, of course, but the contrary would be against the law of thermodynamics.
Even eating ‘shit’ but following that, you’ll lose weigt (or starve to death)
The strength of your grievance demonstrates the weakness of your argument.
Who is in the discussion makes no difference. It’s usually cutting corpses how people make up the models such that you get some measurements done (like circumferences) and you end up extrapolating lean muscle mass and so on.
It’s poverty, only the wealthy can afford to eat healthy and well in an economic environment where food is starting to go up in price astronomically, meanwhile the unhealthy ultra processed foods are created largely for the consumption of the poor. The dynamics is the healthier eating lifestyle will cost you more in money and the unhealthy lifestyles of eating is cheaper.
This is also why you’ll rarely see fast food corporate CEOs eat their own food because they’re designed purely for the lower strata of society.
You can see the differences between going to an expensive upscale grocery store in a wealthy neighborhood versus a grocery store in neighborhoods where poverty or lower incomes are the norm. The quality of food and the differences in that is very noticeable.
This also comes down to time where the wealthy have more time to themselves to cook and prepare healthy meals when they’re not paying others to do it for them versus the lowly worker working heavy hours who has hardly anytime at all to themselves to make healthier food preparations. Time being another construct weaponized by the wealthy over the poor.
To some degree there’s also self control and moderation versus no control in dieting as well but I would argue economic income is a very dominant part of nutritional health in our completely monetary society.
In vitro methods quantify SM mass, weighing intact muscles as part of whole cadaver evaluations
So, besides all the offtopic themes, you say that the polynesian people are only high up there because of the difference in BMI? Or are they, even when having that difference, the most obese?
By the way, you think someone can gain weight while ingesting less calories than it exerts? You mean that they can, for example, eat a pebble which has no avaliable calories and gain weight? Wouldn’t that be offset by the people going down in weight because of accidents and suddenly missing an arm?
Do you think that is an answer for if the polynesians are the most obese even considering a different BMI?
For a philosophy forum, some people truly have a tendency for aiming not to ponder.
Anyhow, taking the body as a thermodynamic system in the same environment, if it outputs more energy than it is going in as available in the food, the extra energy will have to be converted from chemical energy, most usually in the form of using the fat cells to do so, making the fat cells smaller in the process.
As such, that’s not a way to motivate people to be more healthy, but it is a sure-fire way that describes all processes of reducing fat tissue (unless operations). Even pills and such are included in that.
Obvious bot. I don’t think philosophers need to be worrying about their jobs any time soon (or lawyers, or anyone else who needs to actually think and use logic)
Nauru has the highest rate of adult diabetes worldwide. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) identified 31% of Nauruans as diabetic,[4] with rates as high as 45% among individuals aged from 55 to 64 years.[2] It is a small island country with the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the world.[5] 71% of the population is obese. 97% of men are overweight; the percentage of women who are overweight is only slightly lower.[5]
It would be odd that such is ONLY because of that difference in lean mass
That feels like an oversimplification. Depression doesn’t even consistently lead to weight gain, so it can’t explain obesity on its own. Add in cheap processed food, oversized portions, convenience-driven lifestyles, limited access to healthier options, chronic stress, and the fact that our palates are conditioned to prefer hyper-palatable foods, and it starts to look a lot more like a system than a single cause. People tend to eat what they enjoy, and what’s been engineered to taste good isn’t usually what’s best for them.
Now, you say that it’s JUST because of that? Keep in mind that Kuwait and Qatar have higher BMI on average than USA, too.
