Comments on: From Fit to Fat to Fit. And Back. https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/ Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501818 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:22:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501818 I think Gwen is right, but there is also recent news of a form of cold virus … once you get this particular cold your fat cells become super-efficient.

Now they need to come up with a cold that undoes that.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501817 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:35:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501817 We drive EVERYWHERE now, to places we used to walk. We used to walk down to the corner store to pick up a few items, now we drive. We used to take our children out of the strollers to walk as soon as they were able, now I see 7 and 8 year old fat kids being lugged around in strollers usually eating or drinking something, by their equally fat parents. Take a look around you, our lifestyle has changed sooo much in the past 20 or 30 years…kids don’t go outside to play all afternoon until dinnertime anymore, they play on the computer…trapped by their fears of kidnapping boogeymen.

]]> By: Katkinkate https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501816 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:12:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501816 I’ve heard of several things blamed over the years. The latest is high-fructose diet causing liver damage that unbalances the hormonal feedbacks that regulate food-intake, hunger perception and exercise (insulin, leptin and a few others). But wait another few years and something else will be the next hot ’cause’. I just hope they eventually figure it out and we can really start to reverse the trend.

]]> By: neel bee https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501815 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:22:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/07/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-2/#comment-501815 Thanks. Did you hear of the recent claims, that excericise didn’t help much in losing weight, maybe because it stimulated appetite and the sense of “deserving” and getting away with more? I can imagine how overweight creeps up on someone, but still expect more “effort” in response. One thing I just don’t get, despite all the technical, semi-plausible offerings: why are so many more people overweight today than in decades past? In the 40s and 50s, it was a rarity and “special”, esp. among young people. Is there an answer, and an answer about what to do?

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