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Originally Posted by GGG
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...healthier.html
Its slate so some inherent bias and the article is written with an agenda but it links some excellent peer-reviewed research that questions the underlying assumption that obesity is inherently bad and skinniness is inherently good.
I think people accept without sufficient evidence that obesity CAUSES rather than correlates with diseases and that weight loss will reduce the risk of these diseases in people who were previously obese.
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They are correct when they say so many people fail at dieting. And it's because after they go on their crash diets, they go right back to their old eating habits. Weight loss isn't just reducing the amount of food you eat for a while until you drop 10 pounds, it is a lifestyle change that has to be maintained and changing a lot of flawed thinking.