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Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

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Re: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

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So you can't run away from a bad diet... Except when you can, but that is "obviously not who we are talking about" . Maybe that meme needs to die for good, instead.

So you really think the people being told "you can't outrun a bad diet" would be served by knowing if they adopted the lifestyle of an olympian they would lose weight? a narrow fixation on edge cases while ignoring the (correct) larger point is weird

>> weekend warriors

>> So perhaps the sedentary person would benefit from walking or leisurely cycling to work a whole more than by trying to restrict their diet

Re: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

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> In weightlifting, probably the sport I'd expect an unfair advantage to make itself most apparent, Laurel Hubbard got a DNF in the Olympics, and did merely pretty good in several other events. On the contrary, Laurel Hubbard is a good example of how apparent this male physical advantage is when male athletes are allowed to compete in the female category. Here's a chart showing ranked lifts for both men's and women's…

Out of curiosity, do you have a link to the source of that graph or the name of the researcher?

The source of the graph is Dr Emma Hilton; she posted it on her Twitter account (@FondOfBeetles) in a thread about Hubbard.

Re: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

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post #342

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Out of curiosity, do you have a link to the source of that graph or the name of the researcher?

The source of the graph is Dr Emma Hilton; she posted it on her Twitter account (@FondOfBeetles) in a thread about Hubbard.

https://x.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1399432823048708097
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