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Why does the Mediterranean diet work so well? Because of the socialized healthcare. (in other words: "it's not the diet dummy", just like it's not the plastic)
It’s because birth certificates are particularly unreliable in that region, which causes it to appear to have older people than it actually does.
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The most important thing in the world is leverage. And shame can make for some pretty powerful leverage. I’m a hyper critical individual especially when it comes to myself. If I didn’t work to avoid shame, it’s very likely I’d be a lot more miserable and a lot less successful.
> If I didn’t work to avoid shame, it’s very likely I’d be a lot more miserable and a lot less successful. Ok, I am not going to say that is incorrect or anything; you know you far better than any internet strangers. I would say that having a motivation which is based on avoiding negative outcome rather than being drawn towards positive outcome is by definition an unhealthy motivation, and that's my point about shame…
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I'd rather trust the expertise of doctors who've actually studied this stuff than a moron journalist, thanks.
You're sure fun to chat with.
Your type were boring when I was 20 and even more boring now. I teach people and create things for fun. Grow up.
Our food chain has a lot to do with obesity. There are many studies on this stuff. We eat 5 times as much meat on average as people did 100 years go. Animal based products are a major source of fat. People used to eat more fruits and vegetables. The fat type has shifted with more fat (which has higher calorie per gram amounts than carbs or protein) and fat moving from polyunsaturated fats to saturated fats (which cau…
And yet there are a growing number looking shredded and boasting of their health on carnivore diets.
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Asians effectively use body shaming and community/peer pressure to essentially mold people into staying fit.
That shouldn’t help unless they know effective ways to stay fit. According to the article that’s avoiding microplastics, which is not what Asian mothers are harassing their daughters into doing.
I do a lot of high school senior photography. It's hard to talk about this without sounding crude as a guy but something that I've noticed that contrasts with when I graduated high school (2006) is just how many girls have huge breasts. I think there were 2 girls in my grade that were skinny and had what would be called "large" breasts. Most other skinny girls had the standard A or B cups. Now a very large portion ha…
1) I have a suspicion that girls are getting birth control pills at much earlier ages than they used to. Putting a girl on bith control pills in the middle of puberty is going to have an effect somewhere and weight gain is one of the documented effects of birth control. 2) Girls getting fatter likely triggers other changes as well. Given that the female body works very hard to shut down reproduction when fat is scarc…
For your other points, I'm talking about stick-skinny 17 year olds with very large breasts. Hormonal birth control could be part/all of the reason but it's not from weight gain anywhere other than their bust.
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> I don’t mean this to be rude, but it sounds like you jumped to a quick conclusion based on preexisting simple expectations about obesity? I think this is unwarranted sarcasm, given that I could only comment on the information you provided in your post.
I accept that feedback at face value.
For the record, just in case it helps you, most weekdays I walk pretty close to 10 miles using a standing desk and walking treadmill. If you can incorporate it into your work day I'd recommend it.
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But fat increases satiety much more quickly than sugar. 500 cals of fats will make you feel "fuller" than 750 or even 1k cals of sugar. That's what makes sugar so much worse. Is may not be as colorically dense, but we can comfortably guzzle down far more empty calories from sugar than from fat.
I think separating the two is not a good idea. Very few people will just eat a spoon of white sugar. Very few people will eat a stick of butter. But almost everyone can binge on a box of cookies, where the main ingredients are butter and sugar (and flour I suppose.)