Reply #206: And metabolic disorders have little to nothing to do with obesity, either.

[Occam Bandage]

The recent epidemic of obesity is not caused by a nationwide mitochondrial work stoppage. It is caused by societal lifestyle shifts. There is indeed a small and ever-shrinking chance that an individual fat person is fat because their body is incapable of correctly processing food. Such people are few.

For the overwhelming majority of fat people, decreasing energy input while increasing voluntary energy output will decrease energy reservoirs (that is to say, involuntary energy output will not drop to the extent that it will make up the entirety of the difference). Adipose tissue does not possess an eternally self-replenishing magic sugar-forge that conjures glucose from the ether. Your degreewanking does not have anything to do with anything. I'm surprised you'd think my tongue-in-cheek invocation of physics was as far-removed from the situation as you are.