[Dean's World] Dean: Disgusting Self-Indulgent Fat Slobbery

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Posted by Dean:
Disgusting Self-Indulgent Fat Slobbery
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1175738878.shtml


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   The truth of the matter is that some people have metabolisms that are
   a lot more efficient--i.e. more prone to get fat--than others. In
   earlier generations, when people were poorer and food was not so
   abundant, this was a pro-survival genetic inheritance: your metabolism
   was slower, and more efficient, so you could survive better when food
   was short. We now live in a time of abundance, when being hungry is
   not a normal, everyday occurrence.

   Search as long and as hard as you want through the peer-reviewed
   scientific literature, and you will find that there is no evidence
   that fat people can become normalweight simply by eating less and
   exercising more and being "more disciplined." Barely 1% of the
   chronically obese can become--and stay--normalweight this way.
   Watching what you eat and exercising helps prevent the problem from
   becoming worse, or can ameliorate it a little, but it can't fix the
   problem.

   No program of eating less and exercising more has ever been shown to
   be a cure for chronic obesity, and none has ever shown that overweight
   people are by nature less disciplined or more self-indulgent than the
   non-obese. Indeed, the average fat person tends to be more
   self-conscious and more disciplined than the non-obese.

   It's a metabolic issue, not a character issue.

   By the way, the majority of Americans are overweight, and a third are
   medically obese. I guess we're just all slobs with character flaws,
   eh?

   We're taking over. Give us your pizza or we'll destroy you.

   (Via [1]Joy.)

References

   1. http://littlemissattila.mu.nu/