Is everything I know about obesity wrong?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:54 pm
For a long time now I've been under the impression that people are more likely to develop certain health problems if they are overweight. Furthermore, the more excess weight people develop, the greater their risks are, and the more severe their health problems become.
Does obesity promote risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and stroke? Does being slightly overweight promote these risks as well, but to a lesser degree than being obese?
These are the impressions I've had so far. Recently, however, I've considered that I might be completely wrong about this, and that I am in desperate need of enlightenment by a HuffPost journalist with no formal education in dietary science.
Have any of you read this article linked below?
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/art ... -is-wrong/
I'm curious to know how many of the claims in this article are correct, and how many are incorrect. Some examples:
"The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets."
"95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible."
"Anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol."
"A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people." (Does this study, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4731253/ , actually prove this?)
Does obesity promote risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and stroke? Does being slightly overweight promote these risks as well, but to a lesser degree than being obese?
These are the impressions I've had so far. Recently, however, I've considered that I might be completely wrong about this, and that I am in desperate need of enlightenment by a HuffPost journalist with no formal education in dietary science.
Have any of you read this article linked below?
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/art ... -is-wrong/
I'm curious to know how many of the claims in this article are correct, and how many are incorrect. Some examples:
"The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets."
"95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible."
"Anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol."
"A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people." (Does this study, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4731253/ , actually prove this?)