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Originally Posted by Chip Midnight  Fair enough, but that brings up a question. Completely objectively speaking do you think for most very heavy people it's not something they can do anything about? I don't doubt that that's true for a great many people, but all? Most? Just some? Nothing I've ever read on the subject has given me the impression that it's most, but it's not a subject I've specifically researched. |
20-40 lbs, yeah... they can probably make a few changes that will bring them back in range. Mostly because they're metabolism hasn't been damaged at that point.
40+ It depends so much on age, level of mobility, genes and history. When you start talking 80, 100, 150 lbs, that's a person who either has significant co-factors like one of my dear friends with PCOS or whose suffered an injury. And once you're that overweight, the biological changes to brain and metabolism add a tremendous additional burden.
200+ That person has a serious underlying medical condition.
What I've been raising hell about is that the tipping point has been moved in the last 25 years. There's a reason that obesity has increased 60%.. and its not solely an aging population, or overindulgence. It's the degrading of our food supply, the erosion of personal income and time, and our crappy urban design, among other things.
For example, I linked to the studies on rats and the brain alterations of a sugary diet and their surprising results that the rats only had to taste the "sweet" to have a dopamine response. So consider the below.
Diet Soda Increases Risk of Overweight and Obesity 41%