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100 years ago, 1 of 100,000 people had diabetes. Today, it is 1 of 4. If you count pre-diabetes, it is 1 of 3. 75 years ago, 3% of the population had heart disease. Today, it is about 40%.Grains and sugar are the leading causes.
You describe an anomoly as I have never seen it happen. I've been involved in sports since 1966 and never seen this. We have 120 kids on our swim team, and since we joined in 1994, there has never been a fat kid on it. For the vast majority of people, simply getting off your ass will solve the problem. I objected to the title of the documentary, "The Men Who Made You Fat", because it is irresponsible to otherwise healthy people. According to the scenario you present, an actual health condition that makes you fat, the documentary also does not apply, because the health condition is at fault, not "The Men".
cyanide in moderation will still kill you! The best advice I ever heard was 'If it comes in a box don't eat it.'Processed food, at best, has very little nutritional value and at worse is loaded with crap your body was never intended to ingest.
Hmm, I give in depth, detailed answers about how our metabolic systems go wrong and why, and the counter argument I get back is "No, fat people are just too lazy to stop stuffing their f'ing fat faces and get off their fat @sses". I feel like I'm arguing with children.
Of course, I am no doctor or anything, so take it for what it's worth
Actually, it's very easy to argue against those kind of results. First, total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, none of these are good indicators of heart disease risk. In fact, they're horrible indicators of heart disease risk. They're wrong near 50% of the time. So, you're results don't mean much.I could go on and on and on about why an n=1 sample (of yourself) is meaningless, but I really don't have the time now.
Taubes makes an interesting point in Why We Get Fat. It's common to see overweight adults in family groups with malnourished children. The reason seems to be that cheap processed food is not very good for anyone.
No, I am not overweight. I am 5'10" and 169lbs, within 4 lbs of my weight as a college athlete. I used to be overweight for several years. Cutting calories and "exercising" did not work for me. That's in stark contrast to when I was younger and thought I was too skinny and couldn't gain weight NO MATTER HOW MUCH I ATE. Yes, some people cannot put on weight, even if they overeat and don't exercise much. On the reverse side, there are people that cannot lose weight, even if they eat very little and move around a lot. I've been on both sides of the coin, so I have direct experience from which I'm speaking here.If I tell you I cut calories and exercised quite a bit and it didn't work, what do you say to that? You could tell me I am lying and and I was really still sitting on my ass and stuffing my face. But I wasn't. So, how do you account for this? In my case (and in many people's cases), cutting calories and upping the aerobics simply does not work. I know that's hard for you to understand, but it's a fact. My posts so far have been centered around WHY it doesn't work for a lot of people. If you want to argue, you need to come up with an answer to this problem.And it's not just me. Many, many researchers in the obesity field know this from experience - cutting calories and putting people on a treadmill just does not work. If it did, the obesity would be cured and we wouldn't be having this epidemic. But it DOES NOT work for many people and there are specific reasons WHY it does not work. Insulin resistance would be the main issue that would need to be addressed before significant and permanent weight loss can be achieved. That's why I referenced the ATOZ diet study, it's one of the most recent studies to show a link between insulin resistance and the inability to lose weight on a traditional diet.
