You might be interested to look up some of the work by the endocrine / weight management / metabolism experts I mentioned on the other thread.
There is a growing body of research over the past several decades as to obesity being a symptom and not a cause. Here is one such article. Here is a discussion of the same by Ludwig (who has talked extensively about why the weight set point in the brain sabotages long-term weight loss).
The body isn’t a passive energy-storage depot, it’s a dynamic organism that fights back against calorie restrictions. So we know that when you cut back calories or you try to burn off more calories with exercise, typically we get hungrier and hungrier. It isn’t just a fleeting feeling. It’s a primal biological signal that your body wants more fuel,” he shared.
And even if someone does have the willpower to ignore their hunger for months or even years, the body will continue to fight back by slowing down its metabolism.
So as we continue to lose weight and metabolism slows down, we need fewer and fewer calories to keep the weight off, even as our hunger and desire for those calories increase,” Dr. Ludwig said. “And unless we understand this alternative view of cause and effect, treatment approaches will be at best symptomatic and not effective over the long term.
But it is an uphill battle to fight ingrained societal bias, even with science.
Much easier to blame people and to buy into a simplistic causal relationship even if it is wrong.
