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"people with low BMI" seems like it refers to a large group of healthy people, but it actually refers to folks who are underweight. In China, that's like 1 in 10 people. In the USA it's closer to 1 in 50. I wonder what kind of genetics and behavior you have to have to be underweight in the USA.
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I do peer review, and know colleagues that do as well. I'd say the median number of articles reviewed per person in a given year is 10. I don't claim to represent most reviewers, but I also don't think a presumption that reviewers primarily only have time to half-ass it is fair either.
> I'd say the median number of articles reviewed per person in a given year is 10. That's a pretty light annual workload. How do you get to be one of those people? Or do those people have other work to do?
Yes, they have other work to do.
The hunger thing rings true, though. I often just forget to eat and end up eating one meal a day or maybe a meal and a snack. Then again, on other days I might snack through the whole day. It seems to balance out though; after a day of frequent eating usually come a couple of those totally-forgetting-to-eat days.
Does this breakdown when you gain weight? Like when I was 20 I weighed 180lbs of solid muscle and was always like a furnace. Then I slipped a disk and now at 28 I'm lucky if I hover around 240 (I've actually been back lifting for the last 2.5 months and feel pretty good) but I definitely feel like I run colder in general now that I'm overweight.
Gaining muscle mass will often lead to a quick onset of obesity once you stop lifting.
Gaining a lot of muscle and putting a lot of effort into gaining the muscle (bulking + workout) is where the troubles maybe appear.
Also, the metabolism of a 20yo is a completely different story frok the metabolism of a 40yo.
So to sum up: working out and staying in shape == good. Don't worry about gaining muscle. That's just nonsense
The study was underweight bmi vs healthy bmi. Nothing about overweight bmi, which I would assume is the trifecta of overeating, little activity, and slower metabolism. At least that is my personal experience in going from overweight to healthy bmi. Really not surprising that people that eat less have lower bmi and higher metabolism than people that eat more with a slower metabolism but who are more active.
you missed the important point, IMO: being hungry. it's bizarre that we can be mechanically and nutritionally full yet still be hungry. These low BMI individuals were not hungry. WTF is going on with the hunger response being so messed up in a huge segment of the population?
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you missed the important point, IMO: being hungry. it's bizarre that we can be mechanically and nutritionally full yet still be hungry. These low BMI individuals were not hungry. WTF is going on with the hunger response being so messed up in a huge segment of the population?
IMO this is one of the biggest and most interesting questions of the last century with the widest and most frightening implications. If literally a majority of people in wealthy nations are what we define as overweight, and we keep finding new ways that is at least somewhat out of our control or difficult to perfectly control, why do we keep framing it as solely a matter of individual discipline or virtue? I have my…
I wish the "running hot" part was true for me. I feel cold so easily, to the point that I had to get myself checked out this year since my toes would go numb at the slightest chill. The hunger thing rings true, though. I often just forget to eat and end up eating one meal a day or maybe a meal and a snack. Then again, on other days I might snack through the whole day. It seems to balance out though; after a day of fr…
Also you can get used to feel hunger, I think most of the people in developed countries eat so much and so often they don't even experience feeling of hunger.
Plus if you get used to smaller portions it's also easier to fill your shrunk stomach with smaller portions, it's about what your body is used to, it's all about self control.
When I started to travel around Asia I weighted 88kg (my max), after year of traveling, lot of walking/hiking when I found new job in China I had 68kg when I liked like skeleton from concentration camp, now I am on my optimal weight exactly in middle between.
Yes, and, about 8 minutes of true HIIT* at least 3 days a week for 6 weeks is proven to adjust your metabolic run level. Graph your weight. After 6 weeks of HIIT, you'll see weight really shed because you're not burning calories during exercise but 24/7, and because of that metabolic shift, the weight will continue to shed for months even if you stop HIIT. * HIIT is High Intensity Interval Training. It's a technical…
Is there actual evidence that this is generally effective?
There's a really interesting study they did with pigs. They fed pigs four different diets that had the same amount of calories, but varying ratios of n3/n6 fats. The pigs with high n6/n3 ratio ended up much fatter and less muscular than the pigs eating a 1-1 ratio diet. It's a very neat demonstration that "all that matters is calories" is not true; your metabolism, and thus how you use the calories, is influenced by…