Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale

Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by pino999 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:57AM (#42441837)

Obese people don't have more muscle, especially if you look into the more extreme cases. Muscle atrophy seems to happen due to low insuline sensitivity.

And relative they are weaker in the sense that the ratio between strength and body mass is smaller than that of normal people.

And then we have the powerlifting community.

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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by idiotsecant on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @01:29PM (#42443865)

Have you never seen a fat guys calves?

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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by loeg on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:44PM (#42445120)

So: extreme cases (both obesity and powerlifting) are not relevant when we're talking about population-wide averages. And relative weakness is also irrelevant (the original claim was solely about muscle mass -- if you want to talk about that being a bad metric, you're responding to the wrong comment).

You make one specific relevant claim: "obese people don't have more muscle." (Which belies everything I've read on the subject.) So, uh, why do you think that?

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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by danielbln on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @10:40PM (#42447931)

40%[0] of the US population is considered obese. Pretty relevant to population wide averages.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db508.htm

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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by loeg on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:53PM (#42448210)

This is not responsive to my comment.

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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by oefnak on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:44AM (#42448385)

It is. Read your own comment again.

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