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Sorry "hun" but I don't subscribe to the silly notion that Obese people are not at fault for their overweight condition.
McDonalds expansion is NOT the reason for increased obesity. An increasingly sedentary culture is the root cause for this epidemic.
I didn't say that. I am merely presenting some of the summarised research.
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Bodies
22 April 1995
David Concar Georgina Ferry
Magazine issue 1974
Eating disorders are reaching pandemic levels as the food industry purges its products of fat, and cosmetic surgeons cash in on vanity like never before. The shape of our bodies has been sculpted by millions of years of evolution. Why then are we so obsessed with changing it? In this special issue, we begin by demolishing the myths about what makes some people fat and others thin
PEOPLE who volunteer to be human guinea pigs in James Stubbs's lab on the outskirts of windswept Aberdeen need few special attributes save one - a liking for their own company. Some volunteers are expected to spend seven days in solitary confinement in a small cell equipped only with a toilet, wash basin and two luxuries: a TV and exercise cycle.
But at least they are well fed. Through an air-locked hatch in the door, researchers deliver ordinary-looking meals prepared with extraordinary precision. They control, down to every last gram, the relative amounts of fat and carbohydrate that go into each subject's body. And they monitor exactly how much oxygen its respiratory system consumes and how much carbon dioxide it produces. For their part, subjects are expected to write down, once every waking hour, how hungry they feel. In short, they become self-reporting, controlled thermodynamic systems - a means of ...
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