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In reply to the discussion: Can we stop fat shaming politicians we don't like? [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)1. She may be a psychologist, but her conclusions are based on scientific experiments.
2. Metabolism slowing down when you diet does make sense from an evolutionary perspective. When you go on a diet, your body thinks it is starving. Evolutionarily, that meant drought conditions. The best way to survive a drought was to reduce one's activity levels and conserve one's energies until drought conditions ended. By the way, making hypothetical arguments based on how you think evolution works is not what is considered "scientific evidence".
3. The fact that one person called the findings "rubbish" does not make them rubbish. You are using the authority argument. In fact, if you had bothered to read the article I posted:
https://qz.com/550527/obesity-paradox-scientists-now-think-that-being-overweight-is-sometimes-good-for-your-health/
you would have learned that the person who called the results "rubbish" was admonished by the editors of Nature, and that later studies supported the findings he called "rubbish".
4. The studies I posted are not funded by Coca Cola. The vast majority of the studies on diet are funded by the diet industry, as demonstrated by Paul Campos in "The Obesity Myth".
5. When I said that people tend to lose weight when they get old, I was not making a scientific statement but rather providing another way to interpret Towlie's observation that older people tend to be thin. In my experience, people who are overweight tend to get thinner as they get older beyond a certain age. That is anecdotal, but it is no weaker than the baseless argument that was made that older people are thinner because fat people die young. If being overweight killed people young, this would have been easily proven by scientists. In fact, there is no evidence that being overweight kills people. I have posted links that show the opposite.
By the way, I happen to have a Ph.D. in physics and spent years doing cutting-edge research at international labs. I also happen to be someone who changes my mind based on scientific evidence and/or convincing arguments. But of course, despite knowing nothing about me, you think you are entitled to attack me by saying I "cannot be convinced with science". In fact, whenever a person resorts to personal attacks, they demonstrate that they cannot reason in a rational and civil manner.