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The brain controls body weight and obesity by regulating intestinal fat absorption
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For a lot of people it's a poverty and lack of healthcare thing...
Even just annual checkups are a huge help because weight is being tracked and someone gets early and continuous warnings their health is being impacted.
They have as much control as someone trying to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
If they can't escape poverty and gain access to healthcare... They're less likely to maintain a healthy weight.
That's valid. I was thinking more about the nuisances on Tik Tok who peddle straight-up health disinformation.
Yeah, that's bullshit.
Poverty isn't exactly helping, but there are more than enough people with enough resources and excessive body weight.
In the US, ¾ of the population is overweight, are you suggesting ¾ of the population is poor?
I used to be fat. It's not a monetary issue. In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money.
Completely unrelated to the weight loss issue, yeah absolutely. Depends on your definition of "poor" a bit, for example federal statistics list the official poverty cutoff at around $15k a year in income which is stupendously low, and even with that being so much lower than what's realistically survivable in most places they still report 11% of people being in that bracket. Less than half of Americans have more than $1000 in savings. Most of America is extremely broke as fuck.
One person says losing weight is possible because they did it once. Another person says they cannot lose weight because they've been trying for years and it's not happening. Which one is true? Must be the one that I'm most closely aligned with!
Everyone can lose weight though, and we all know what works to do it. You simply eat less food.
The hard part for everyone is manifesting the willpower to resist hunger. Often it takes a life-threatening health scare to manifest that willpower for people, and then they diet and lose weight to avoid dying.
One person ignoring the statistics offered by another to roll in the manure of their own smugness.
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What about that phrase made you interpret it as "everyone"?
This makes it sound like your young and still had the metabolism of a teenager... Losing that is what makes most people gain weight. While some people can be overweight with it, it's still literally the easiest time in your life to lose weight.
It would have been much harder if you were fully grown.
From my own experience I'm approaching 40 and I can estimate my weight based off the calories I've consumed and how much I've worked out since the last time I weighed myself within a couple pounds. It's not exactly in line with any of those estimator apps but it is fairly consistent I assume this is because I have a slower metabolism. Pretty much everyone I know who struggles to lose weight makes terrible choices even when they're trying. You can account that to cravings or impulse control or whatever but everyone that stuck to an appropriate plan has succeeded. It's a matter of figuring out how your body works and sticking to a plan but it is not easy.
For you, yeah.
For most people even, sure.
But not everyone, there's an absolute shit ton of natural human variation on top of conditions/diseases that effect that.
Like, some people react to a normal diet by their body drastically cutting energy expenditure to try and maintain fat reserves.
Billions of years of evolution says carrying around as much fat as possible is the optimal choice, and different people have different traits to maintain those energy reserves which used to be the most important part of physical fitness.
Like, of any possible addiction, an addiction to a high calorie diet should make the most sense to people.
That's where the part about understanding how your body works comes into it. It's certainly harder for some people than others but your body cannot maintain fat without the building blocks to do so and you can restrict these between diet and exercise.