Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:12PM
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For many healthy people, losing weight to reach a government ideal of 'healthy' means dropping useful muscle mass. Which is not good.
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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by NikolaeVarius on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:16PM
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What. 90% of people do not have any musculature worth talking about. Where are your sources? For 99% of people losing weight will be the problem
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by geomark on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:22PM
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Brings to mind the MRI scans of the thighs of an elderly athlete versus an elderly sedentary man https://www.bettermovement.org/blog/2012/use-or-lose-looks-l...
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:19PM
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The Army Sergeant Major of the British Army is 'overweight', for example. (He's done interviews about it.) That's obviously nonsense and he doesn't need to lose any weight at all. The idea of 'overweight' is meaningless.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by ZephyrBlu on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:49PM
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Is he jacked, or fat?
If he's jacked, then yes of course he doesn't need to lose weight. That is a tiny proportion of the population though.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:52PM
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He's jacked, but the original comment was 'losing weight to a target healthy weight is always [ALWAYS] good'. It sounds like you agree that's a false statement?
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by ZephyrBlu on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:07PM
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The original comment was making a generalization that was pretty fair considering that the proportion of the population that has enough muscle mass to cause them to be 'overweight' is pretty small.
Obviously "always" is wrong. Almost nothing is absolute.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:09PM
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> Obviously "always" is wrong.
Bingo.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by throwawayboise on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:34PM
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Since most people are average, there is an average "healthy weight" target. Of course individually, it's really about the ratio of lean mass to fat.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by austhrow743 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:20PM
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If you define many as like 2% maybe.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:22PM
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GP said 'losing weight to a target healthy weight is always good'. 'Always' is not true.
Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
by hombre_fatal on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:44PM
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Well, encumbering "losing weight" with a bad method like losing muscle or breakfast cocaine or cutting fat off your belly with a knife to do it isn't an attack on losing weight, but a misunderstanding of their claim.