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In reply to the discussion: Is it a person's "fault" if they're fat? What does that question really mean? [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)--though they improved their health?
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/diets2.htm
There are hundreds of thousands of papers besides the above documenting the low success rate of permanent weight loss. One quote "Diets don't fail; people do." Of course. The problem is people and their annoying tendency to have lives.
There is no evidence whatsoever that weight loss leads to improved blood chemistry, Sure, there is a correlation, but all the evidence shows that improvements preceed weight loss (and therefore are not caused by it), and that there is zero correlation between improvement and the amount of weight loss. That is, Model B is the correct explanation for the correlation.
A. -Short term reduction of |
calorie intake |
or | improvement
-Long term changes in | ----->weight ----> in blood chemistry
diet composition | loss
or |
-Increase in exercise |
B -Short term reduction of |
calorie intake |
|---->weight loss
-Long term changes in |
diet composition |
or |---->improvement in blood chemistry
-Increase in exercise |