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Structured psychosocial stress and the US obesity epidemic — mentioned by PaulHoule

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:43:07 GMT

No, some chemical or chemicals got added to the environment around 1980. All I can say is try losing 20 pounds and keeping it off for two years and how easy it is. Fat shaming might make a difference but I suspect it would be like knocking off 5 lbs from the average where you really need to knock off 50 lbs. You only started seeing Victoria's Secret getting fat models in the last few years, the obesity epidemic on the other hand started in the Regan years. Maybe it's like taking your belt off when you get heartburn (though I know if I go that route pretty soon I'm going to need suspenders)…

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Structured psychosocial stress and the US obesity epidemic — mentioned by PaulHoule

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:51:49 GMT

My sister in law had a lap band put in a decade ago and she recently had it taken out because of complications. It would be fair to say that it was a partial success and her doctor says that her case is not unusual and that lap bands haven't been as successful as had been hoped. As for explanations of the obesity epidemic note the timing -- it really took off in the 1980s, together with the social and political changes that we call "globalization" https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312011 one possibility is that it was a change in social stressors, another that it was some environmental chemical…

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