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johnyexpert  ·  2254 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong

I would disagree. Obesity is caused by inquinchable thirst for the food and no control over your taste buds. Eat healthy and not just just stop eating.





_refugee_  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. There’s a lot of study and documentation that points to the development of eating disorders, including binge eating, as a response to trauma (most specifically and what I’ve read the most about, as a response to sexual trauma like rape, abuse, molestration).

I don’t think every obese person has that experience as the driving cause for their obesity, but it’s one clear and significant example where obesity is not simple, not truly caused by hunger, and not really the result of having no control — at least, not the result of having no control over a person’s appetite.

I also have observed personally children who are born into fat or obese families who are surrounded by gluttonous eating and who naturally follow the examples set before them. This happens before a child is old enough to understand calories, health, even really that “eating an excess of food leads to weight gain.” I don’t think that’s an unquenchable thirst or a lack of control; I think it’s a situation where children are truly doomed by their family before they can even start to manage their own health.

I’ve also read articles about things like emotional eating where a person eats to assuage their feelings and not their physical hunger.

I do agree that the solution to weight loss has much more to do with what a person eats than whether they eat at all; if you don’t eat you are in for a bad time and going to fail. However, it’s true that proper nutrition isn’t taught in schools and even the food pyramid put out by the US government, and other similar models or advice about what to eat from such sources, are very flawed and influenced by lobbies.

goobster  ·  2252 days ago  ·  link  ·  

johnnyexpert isn't a person. Just go to their page, click all of the checkboxes in the lower left, and click Update.

Poof! The astroturfer is gone.

tacocat  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Look at his user page. I think you're talking to a bot

johnyexpert  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely i do agree. The thing is some people have issues in their genes derived from parents etc. But those are very few cases. The most and the biggest problem is no control over the tongue. Don't mind me but american pallet is too much indulged in cream, butter and creamy tasting products. This is according to me the biggest issue. Though milk is good and milk refined products in high measures create obesity. Green vegetables and flour is the solution with thai spices.

tacocat  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What do you think are the pros and cons of being kicked in the throat?

johnyexpert  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can die = Con. Pros = you can die.

kleinbl00  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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Quatrarius  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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