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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, guys, the reason over 70% of Americans are overweight or obese is very, very simple. [b]They eat too much.[/b]  All the splitting hairs over which types of food are worse than others is insane. Most people eat too much. Period. Restaurant portions are gigantic, we are surrounded by food at every corner, every event, every single day. You have to fight daily to say no, to NOT overeat, to get activity.

It’s not that they don’t care, but it is very hard work to keep fighting. Our brains want to overeat. We are programmed to overeat. To stay healthy, we have to fight our biology multiple times a day. There are no easy answers. [/quote]
Huh. Not really. It’s not a “very, very simple” reason. There really are foods that are horrific for people, some more so than others. I know it really bothers people to acknowledge this, but different bodies have different metabolisms, different biomes, different levels of insulin sensitivity. There is no “very, very simple” answer to it, and it’s not even overeating. In fact, if you read “Why We Get Fat” it’s not really the overeating, it’s one ingredient that makes trouble all over the body, wrecking all sorts of homeostatic systems: sugar. Sugar and simple carbohydrates that break down into sugar in your blood stream (and for very unlucky people even some more complex carbohydrates that are healthy for most bodies like beans, sweet potatoes, farro, triticale, quinoa, etc. ).

I know, I know. You want to just blame fat people for shoving food into their fat maws, but…. It’s not that simple. Sorry. [/quote]

Oh, great--then please point me to a study showing a controlled limited intake of calories below the calculated caloric need  that results in gaining weight. I'll even accept a non-human study.  I'll wait...[/quote]

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