What causes weight gain?
January 15th 2008 23:16
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I bet you think you know the facts, but chances are this post will be a bit challenging.
We think we know that eating too much and not doing enough exercise causes weight gain.
And that eating less junk food and more "good" food, end exercising more will cause weight loss.
It ain't necessarily so.......
What we do know, unequivocally, from study after study over decades, is:
Science doesn't know what causes weight gain in everybody. And simply changing the calorie regime (ie eat less burn more) doesn't necessarily cause weight loss. Because what causes loss or gain for one person doesn't necessarily cause it for another person, and for the HUGE majority of people, weight loss won't stick anyway! Most people (the best stat says 85% and the worst says 98%) regain all the weight lost, and more, within (at the most) 3 years.
Isn"t that ironic - with all the multi-millions of dollars spent on weight loss research, we still don"t know the answer. And the research going on now is overwhelmingly to find a drug that will induce weight loss. Of course if the usual results apply, the best we can hope for is a drug that induces and maintains weight loss while we take it - like asthma medication keeps asthma "under control" as long as you take it, it doesn't cure asthma.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone turned up some results that said something like - metabolic processes are distrubed because the body is too acidic, caused by a disturbed ratio of carbon to oxygen in the body? And all you'd need to do to correct it would be to learn to breathe correctly?
I'm doing a Buteyko breathing course with my snorer hubby, and they DON'T say that breathing has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with any kind of weight-related issue. Just by the way.
But wouldn't it be interesting if it was something as simple as that?
Personally I think it's more about the really odd synthetic chemicals in our food chain, sugar in everything, not drinking enough plain old water, and being couch potatoes.
Back to the old message from granny: "Everything in moderation".
We think we know that eating too much and not doing enough exercise causes weight gain.
And that eating less junk food and more "good" food, end exercising more will cause weight loss.
It ain't necessarily so.......
What we do know, unequivocally, from study after study over decades, is:
Science doesn't know what causes weight gain in everybody. And simply changing the calorie regime (ie eat less burn more) doesn't necessarily cause weight loss. Because what causes loss or gain for one person doesn't necessarily cause it for another person, and for the HUGE majority of people, weight loss won't stick anyway! Most people (the best stat says 85% and the worst says 98%) regain all the weight lost, and more, within (at the most) 3 years.
Isn"t that ironic - with all the multi-millions of dollars spent on weight loss research, we still don"t know the answer. And the research going on now is overwhelmingly to find a drug that will induce weight loss. Of course if the usual results apply, the best we can hope for is a drug that induces and maintains weight loss while we take it - like asthma medication keeps asthma "under control" as long as you take it, it doesn't cure asthma.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone turned up some results that said something like - metabolic processes are distrubed because the body is too acidic, caused by a disturbed ratio of carbon to oxygen in the body? And all you'd need to do to correct it would be to learn to breathe correctly?
I'm doing a Buteyko breathing course with my snorer hubby, and they DON'T say that breathing has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with any kind of weight-related issue. Just by the way.
But wouldn't it be interesting if it was something as simple as that?
Personally I think it's more about the really odd synthetic chemicals in our food chain, sugar in everything, not drinking enough plain old water, and being couch potatoes.
Back to the old message from granny: "Everything in moderation".
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Comment by Pat
Books Are For Losers
If someone made a permanent change to their diet and exercise patterns so that their diet consistently contained less energy (sugar, fat and carbohydrates combined) then they used through exercise, then they will lose weight.
It's that simple hey.
I accept that everybody is different and people will lose weight at different rates, but most people struggle with it because they aren't committed to doing it properly and are little weight-loss babies.
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Comment by Sandy Kumskov
Beliefs have a bit to do with it too, I think - some people believe if they eat a (insert favourite high-calorie food here), they will gain a kilo or several. Other don't believe that, so they don't gain it.
Complex thing, should be simple but it isn't. Maybe we just believe it should be complex?