Obesity Explained

[LaelthsDaughter]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-P6rwnBUpC/?igshid=1wy2jn3jg3ujn

This post on insta talks about why obesity can occur and is very important to note. The problem is not our health for a large portion of americans, the problem is the charts. Many people are labeled overweight unfairly by doctors using the standardized chat and we need to share this.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Really?

[LaelthsDaughter]

2. Yes

Please look at the link.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. That link isn't really very useful.

[LaelthsDaughter]

8. Let me give you a bit of context

Think about many women who are average hight and are labeled as obese because of thier weight. No doctor has ever told them that they have health problems, they don’t have any physical problems at all related to the weight and yet they are labeled obese. This effects people and it hurts. These women still look and feel great and yet they are told they should loose weight. This post just gives a logical explanation for why this is happening and it provides a context based upon genetic changes brought by the great depression. We are designed to store weight, but this doesn’t mean we are unhealthy.

[cwydro]

3. I think most people know if they're overweight or not.

Please.

[LaelthsDaughter]

4. Please check the link (n/t)

[cwydro]

6. I'll do so, but I don't need anyone to tell me if I'm

overweight, nor do I need a chart.

And I can tell when someone else is too.

[whistler162]

7. It is a INSTAGRAM link

Do you have a link to an actual source and not some half-baked popularity contest wannabe?

[LaelthsDaughter]

9. No

This isn’t a scientific study, it is a theory. I find it to make perfect sense given the facts I see around me. There are many articles that have covered how weight cycling and famine affects on humans. Here is a link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139007/

The main part that is theory is that the nutrition is better and that we have evolved to pass down to new generations the gene that tells humans to store weight as if we were in a famine. This makes sense to me and I look forward to some scientist further developing this theory.

[Jane Austin]

10. NOVA, this week, has a very informative program on

fat in people.

Check your PBS listings.

[essme]

11. Fructose in the diet...worse that meat and I'm a vegetarian