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Re: What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and early death? Exercise

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Post by sigi45 » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 1:59 PM UTC

jcousins wrote: post #16

I reversed diabetes with diet alone by doing my own research[1], taking charge of my health. I lost 180lbs in the process. No exercise (disabled). Very much a work in progress. I'm not rejecting the importance of exercise for health - I follow the general principal of eating to get healthy, exercising to get fit - but I think we skip over the absolute tragedy that is the Standard American Diet at our peril. Recoverin…

So i don't get your comment.

First of, the article doesn't say much or anything about weight and health. Second, there is a simple and easy to understand solution to your overweight problem: If you take in only the amount of calories, you use, you can't get fat. I'm not even sure what your overweight/previous overweight (i assume it because you are able to loss 180lbs) has to do with lipid hypothesis.

There is not even an german article available for lipid hypothesis. What is a doctor telling you when he/she beliefs in this hypothesis?

Re: What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and early death? Exercise

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Post by sigi45 » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 2:03 PM UTC

There is a simpler explaination to this: If you spend a few hours doing some exercise (changing cloth, showering, going to the sport area) you are not sitting alone, as usual in front of a display or in your couche. It distracts your mind from your negative thoughts. Also beeing able to walk normally and without pain, going up stairs etc. is a good and normal feeling. When you get older and those basic things stop working, that really sucks. Or being overweight when 'normal' things become tedious.

Re: What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and early death? Exercise

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Post by 3131s » Mon, Oct 09, 2017, 5:41 PM UTC

throwaway0255 wrote: post #115

3131s wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They're not happier or healthier or longer-lived than the western world. In fact, the overall high-level trend appears to be that happiness is correlated with being sedentary. Source?

This is completely self-evident and not even controversial, but here you go: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wo... Agrarian populations spend all their time doing hard labor to earn basic necessities like food, water and shelter. That sucks and they're less happy. People in western nations live longer and move less. The correlation is pretty obvious.

That chart is not a source for your claim. Not really interested in arguing the point further.