You ever even look into the advances in bariatric medicine the last decade? Ever help treat a bariatric patient? 99% behaviorial is utter bullshit, and does not match currer best information.

Genetics didn't likely change, but epigenetics is how our systems respond to conditions in and around us. And that absolutely can and has changed in the last fifty years, and was changing before that.

How our food is process impacts the entire endocrine system, our microbiota in not only the gut, but the entire body. We've got massive increases in environmental contamination over the same kind of timeline, which can not only directly effect systemic function, it can change epigenetics in the womb, and the actual genes themselves.

99% behaviorial my hairy ass.

Even that part is influenced by how food is processed, since there's enough shit in anything you grow, even when you're growing it yourself to play a factor. Actual processed foods are literally designed to trigger our brains and kick off addictions to the added fats and sugars.

That kind of bullshit is the same kind of brainless thing that leads to people thinking vaccines cause autism. There's a metric buttload of data pointing to both weight gain and difficulty in weight loss being heavily influenced by external factors, but you're in here like "nuh-uh, my data set of two fat kids in school says no"

[+] okwhateverdude -15 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

Former fatty. It was 100% behavioral. CICO. Physics. Some people need help, no denying that. But rigorously limiting and counting my intake, and estimating my output from added activity with fitness trackers, while also altering my diet to include more volume, less caloric density to stop feeling so hungry, 100% worked. And I learned to be hungry and that the world wasn't going to end if I was hungry for a little while until it was meal time. I had plenty of caloric surplus and my body was being a little bitch.

Anyhow, anecdata of one that supports the control what goes in your facehole camp.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

Dude, you don't get it at all.

You can scream until you're blue in the face, but it doesn't contradict massive amounts of data and research done by people that have actual training in human physiology.

You, as one person, are just one data point. And that's not how science works. It isn't, and never will be.

IDGAF what you believe, you can believe your farts are magic and grant wishes for all that. But it doesn't matter when it comes to reproducible data. And it is reproducible. The research on it all has been covered in multiple ways by multiple studies.

So, yay for you! You got fat by stuffing your giant mouth in an attempt to fill the hole in your brain, and lost the weight. Congratulations. It still has nothing to do with the current state of understanding of human metabolism.