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In reply to the discussion: Can we stop fat shaming politicians we don't like? [View all]1. But by her saying there was starvation mode (or sever slow down) meant to me she may be a scientist but certainly not in that field. She looked into the psychology of dieting (her field!) and I absolutely believe in the first two bits. But then shen moseyd over to metablism which she shouldn;t have.
2. True, me giving a nice story to it does not mean it was scientific. I was just trying to explain why she is wrong there. And apparently, you believe the same thing. You have something in common. There is an nice article with sources on wiki (spoiler, drought was not an issue for early humans because they did not farm... no idea why drought was even brought up in here?)
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Starvation_response
3. A scientist did, not some random person on the street. But ok, let's call this a hypothesis. All pro and con arguments are nicely packaged in a wiki article : https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Obesity_paradox
4. That particular one was. But I cannot find a source, just articles without a source. And diet companies funding the vast majority of research, I am sure you have sources? Especially for the non-US ones. EU does more research on obesity than the US. And they are kinda strict with doing undercover funding...
5. Ok, so anecdotal. About the age and losing weight magically. But the other bits... There is no scientific proof? How about from WHO? June 2016.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/
Or from the US (2014 though)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953803/
See, I am surprised you have a Ph.D. I give you that. I would not call that an attack per se. I am sure I said I doubt you can or I think you cannot. I did not see it coming as you posted pseudoscience before. I think I have reasoned in a rational and civil manner by providing links and rebuttals. I just doubted you would even read the articles.