Re:Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
by psychomugs on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:28PM
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While I wasn't obese, I was overweight until the end of high school. For some reason I thought weight = 10*age and it took me a while to realize that this would be unsustainable past 20. Now I'd say I'm more fit than average (try to work out ≥4 times/week, have ran several half marathons and a marathon, decently adept at skateboarding) and people can't believe that photos of me as a child are the same person.
I'd say this is more of a boiling frog situation where I don't perceive a demarcation between life before and after getting fit.
No, but I'm trying to explain the sampling bias, not talking about growing up obese. If you randomly sample obese people at any age, 18 or 81, your sample will still be biased by years-spent-obese.
There probably is some effect from growing up obese, but the sampling bias is hugely relevant to interpreting the statistics, and it's not talked about much.
I was athletic growing up and I’ll always have that experience and know how it feels. Someone obese at 18 has no reference point and neither do any of their body systems.