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March 7, 2011 at 9:42 AM #675130March 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM #674428
Eugene
Participant[quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
Maybe we can get FDA to loosen its standards on weight-loss pills. It seems that whenever a weight-loss pill appears on the market that actually works, FDA comes out and bans it.
March 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM #675583Participant[quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
Maybe we can get FDA to loosen its standards on weight-loss pills. It seems that whenever a weight-loss pill appears on the market that actually works, FDA comes out and bans it.
March 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM #675235Participant[quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
Maybe we can get FDA to loosen its standards on weight-loss pills. It seems that whenever a weight-loss pill appears on the market that actually works, FDA comes out and bans it.
March 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM #674485Participant[quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
Maybe we can get FDA to loosen its standards on weight-loss pills. It seems that whenever a weight-loss pill appears on the market that actually works, FDA comes out and bans it.
March 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM #675098Participant[quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
Maybe we can get FDA to loosen its standards on weight-loss pills. It seems that whenever a weight-loss pill appears on the market that actually works, FDA comes out and bans it.
March 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM #675159briansd1
Guest[quote=Eugene][quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
[/quote]It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.
We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
This guy is one of my heroes, not because he’s rich and powerful, but because he’s eating right. It’s not hard to do. And it’s substantially cheaper than eating wrong:
March 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM #674488Guest[quote=Eugene][quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
[/quote]It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.
We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
This guy is one of my heroes, not because he’s rich and powerful, but because he’s eating right. It’s not hard to do. And it’s substantially cheaper than eating wrong:
March 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM #675642Guest[quote=Eugene][quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
[/quote]It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.
We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
This guy is one of my heroes, not because he’s rich and powerful, but because he’s eating right. It’s not hard to do. And it’s substantially cheaper than eating wrong:
March 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM #675295Guest[quote=Eugene][quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
[/quote]It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.
We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
This guy is one of my heroes, not because he’s rich and powerful, but because he’s eating right. It’s not hard to do. And it’s substantially cheaper than eating wrong:
March 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM #674545Guest[quote=Eugene][quote=briansd1]Since we know that obesity is an enormous problem, why don’t we do something about it? [/quote]
Because we don’t really know what to do about it. Risk factors of obesity are poorly understood and controversial, and, once you get obese, there’s no going back, because diets overwhelmingly fail. Largest proven factors include being black/hispanic and having too little physical activity. I don’t see how we can do anything about these two.
[/quote]It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.
We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
This guy is one of my heroes, not because he’s rich and powerful, but because he’s eating right. It’s not hard to do. And it’s substantially cheaper than eating wrong:
March 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM #675692Participant[quote=briansd1]
It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
[/quote]There are two things conclusive about the research. (1) Excess weight is relatively easy to gain, hard to lose, and even harder to keep off once lost. (2) 3 hours of cardio per week go a long way towards preventing undesirable weight gain. Beyond that, very little is known conclusively. Nutritionists can’t even agree on low-fat vs low-carb. And even things they can agree on are mostly irrelevant, because of (1) above: maybe you will lose 2 more pounds after six months on a low-carb diet vs. a low-fat diet, but 9 out of 10 real-world dieters will drop out of either program long before six months, and their weight will quickly bounce back to the original level.
I really don’t want a war on obesity. The last two wars (on drugs and on terror) proved to be very expensive and did not produce meaningful results. And it remains to be proven that obesity is bad for the healthcare bottom line. Maybe we should just let natural selection do its job.
March 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM #675209Participant[quote=briansd1]
It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
[/quote]There are two things conclusive about the research. (1) Excess weight is relatively easy to gain, hard to lose, and even harder to keep off once lost. (2) 3 hours of cardio per week go a long way towards preventing undesirable weight gain. Beyond that, very little is known conclusively. Nutritionists can’t even agree on low-fat vs low-carb. And even things they can agree on are mostly irrelevant, because of (1) above: maybe you will lose 2 more pounds after six months on a low-carb diet vs. a low-fat diet, but 9 out of 10 real-world dieters will drop out of either program long before six months, and their weight will quickly bounce back to the original level.
I really don’t want a war on obesity. The last two wars (on drugs and on terror) proved to be very expensive and did not produce meaningful results. And it remains to be proven that obesity is bad for the healthcare bottom line. Maybe we should just let natural selection do its job.
March 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM #674538Participant[quote=briansd1]
It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
[/quote]There are two things conclusive about the research. (1) Excess weight is relatively easy to gain, hard to lose, and even harder to keep off once lost. (2) 3 hours of cardio per week go a long way towards preventing undesirable weight gain. Beyond that, very little is known conclusively. Nutritionists can’t even agree on low-fat vs low-carb. And even things they can agree on are mostly irrelevant, because of (1) above: maybe you will lose 2 more pounds after six months on a low-carb diet vs. a low-fat diet, but 9 out of 10 real-world dieters will drop out of either program long before six months, and their weight will quickly bounce back to the original level.
I really don’t want a war on obesity. The last two wars (on drugs and on terror) proved to be very expensive and did not produce meaningful results. And it remains to be proven that obesity is bad for the healthcare bottom line. Maybe we should just let natural selection do its job.
March 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM #675345Participant[quote=briansd1]
It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
[/quote]There are two things conclusive about the research. (1) Excess weight is relatively easy to gain, hard to lose, and even harder to keep off once lost. (2) 3 hours of cardio per week go a long way towards preventing undesirable weight gain. Beyond that, very little is known conclusively. Nutritionists can’t even agree on low-fat vs low-carb. And even things they can agree on are mostly irrelevant, because of (1) above: maybe you will lose 2 more pounds after six months on a low-carb diet vs. a low-fat diet, but 9 out of 10 real-world dieters will drop out of either program long before six months, and their weight will quickly bounce back to the original level.
I really don’t want a war on obesity. The last two wars (on drugs and on terror) proved to be very expensive and did not produce meaningful results. And it remains to be proven that obesity is bad for the healthcare bottom line. Maybe we should just let natural selection do its job.
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