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a little bit of fat is a good thing

If you’re overweight at 40, you’ve got slightly better prognosis than someone who’s thin at 40, and will on average live longer. This is for being merely “overweight,” by the way, it doesn’t work if you are obese.

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2009 06 20 David Uncategorized Comments (0)

Why it’s so hard to lose weight

Bodies have multiple stable body weights. Once you’re in one stable state, it’s hard to shift to the next.
That’s why some people can seemingly eat what they like without gaining, and others can starve themselves and never lose it.

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2009 05 03 David Uncategorized Comments (4)

Social engineering the right way

Boy on a Bike on social engineering and the mythical plague of fat kids:
…a press release is issued stating that “30% of kids are overweight”. We are not told how that calculation was made, nor whether the problem is clustered around several socio-economic or ethnic groups. We are simply given a blanket figure. We are [...]

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2009 05 02 David Uncategorized Comments (1)