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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6026647" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>While I agree with you that there no magic diet, I'm going to make the bold claim that this mentality is a prime example of tragically misapplied nutritional science. Not picking on you [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Thermodynamics says nothing about causality. In other words, it's easy to blame fat people for their overeating and sedentary lifestyle (gluttony and sloth) as the cause of their condition, when its equally possible that the gaining of mass in the form of fat is what's causing them to eat more and conserve energy. The question in that case would be "well what's causing them to get fat then?" Which is an *excellent* starting place for a real inquiry.</p><p></p><p>There's a whole body of research out there that gets deeply into this notion, though as a lay person myself I've relied on Gary Taubes' <strong>Good Calories, Bad Calories</strong> (the heavily footnoted TOME of research) and <strong>Why We Get Fat</strong> (the digest version, sources but no footnotes). <a href="http://garytaubes.com/" target="_blank">Gary Taubes ? Author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories</a>. He is a medical researcher, writes for Science, received 3 Science in Society Journalism Awards, and is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. IOW he's not a "diet guru" and he's not trying to sell you anything...well, besides his book (but I'm not yet cynical enough to discount any altruism of all authors everywhere).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6026647, member: 20323"] While I agree with you that there no magic diet, I'm going to make the bold claim that this mentality is a prime example of tragically misapplied nutritional science. Not picking on you [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] ;) Thermodynamics says nothing about causality. In other words, it's easy to blame fat people for their overeating and sedentary lifestyle (gluttony and sloth) as the cause of their condition, when its equally possible that the gaining of mass in the form of fat is what's causing them to eat more and conserve energy. The question in that case would be "well what's causing them to get fat then?" Which is an *excellent* starting place for a real inquiry. There's a whole body of research out there that gets deeply into this notion, though as a lay person myself I've relied on Gary Taubes' [b]Good Calories, Bad Calories[/b] (the heavily footnoted TOME of research) and [b]Why We Get Fat[/b] (the digest version, sources but no footnotes). [url=http://garytaubes.com/]Gary Taubes ? Author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories[/url]. He is a medical researcher, writes for Science, received 3 Science in Society Journalism Awards, and is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. IOW he's not a "diet guru" and he's not trying to sell you anything...well, besides his book (but I'm not yet cynical enough to discount any altruism of all authors everywhere). [/QUOTE]
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