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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it is not just the calories.  I lost 11 lbs in the first week and it didn't really impact my appetite until the third shot.  It basically flushed all the inflammation out of my system immediately.  The hormonal component is not well understood and so people who prefer simple answers reject it and insist CACO, which has been debunked in every inpatient weight loss study ever performed on obese patients, is the only answer.[/quote]

Actually CICO has be PROVEN in every inpatient weight loss study.

Also, when you look at photos of famine or concentration camps there are not fat people who have bodies resistant to weight loss.  This is just a hard fact for fat people to believe, because they want to have something else to blame.  That said, hormones control hunger.  So if you have more of the type that make you hungry (or not full) you will eat more - more calories - and be fatter.[/quote]

No one is saying calories don’t matter.  NO ONE.

What’s being said is that science is discovering that it is more complicated than that, and not every human engine works the same.  [b]I don’t know why this is so hard for people to accept and I DEFINITELY DO NOT UNDERSTAND why anyone would be so against it.[/b]  What is your purpose in fighting things that are backed by science, proved by evidence, and affirmed by the millions they are helping?  What is your problem?

And most importantly, what makes you think that using F$%KING CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTIMS as an example does any good?  The greatest tragedy of the 20th century is your diet plan?  That is disgusting, and you should apologize for that immediately.[/quote]

It's because framing body size as something that is 1) simple and 2) tied to personal willpower, makes the people who are naturally more inclined to thinness feel morally superior.  It's very, very hard to raise a person their entire life being praised for their self control and moral superiority and then try to tell them "oh, nevermind, it turns out that without your input your body produces less leptin than other people's bodies so you basically lucked out".  They will fight to the death to hang on to the sense of superiority that being thinner than *those* people gives them, because they've tied it to their sense of self.

This is the same reason they will brag about being "health conscious" for wearing a size 4-8 even though they work out maybe once a week, but then heap scorn on a triathlete that wears a size 14.  It's all about self-perception, and in particular the right to think of themselves as better than the out group.[/quote]

This is such a clear statement, thanks for sharing.[/quote]

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