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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my goodness, so many “educated”, people in here failing to understand the simple scientific fact that not all bodies require the same number of calories to sustain a healthy weight.  Those who are metabolically challenged have it so much harder than anyone wants to admit.  Yes it take serious discipline to subsist on fewer than 1200 calories a day.  Most people don’t need to do that. Those people need to sit down and be quiet.  Some bodies do not like to lose weight.  [/quote]

Nobody disputes the differences. Save for extreme outliers, that are somehow wildly over represented here in this forum, the differences are not on the orders of magnitude that support the worldwide obesity crisis. [/quote]

… do you think that people who have these challenges might be more likely to visit diet and exercise forums?

I’m unaware of any studies that support your last inference.  I would love to see a study showing the range of calories in diets that cause weight loss in obese people vs. non-obese people.[/quote]

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