You think that maybe the obesity naysayers would have calm down by now. After all three major studies (including two by the CDC) have proved overweight people live the longest and that even being in the obesity range doesn't cut your lifespan that much or that doctors don't know what causes you be fat, it isn't just about eating and moving.
Or that scientist have proved that diets consist of reducing caloric intake. It doesn't matter if you cut the carbs, the fats or the protein, short-term weight loss comes by reducing calories.
You think they would stop: diets don't work, no one knows why some people are fat while some are thin, diets are the same thing just in different packages.
Lancet has a study that "proves" that fatties live a shorter life. I'm not a doctor or scientist, I have read the study and admit that I didn't quite understand all of it. I did understand that there wasn't one large test group, that the scientists took the information from 57 other studies, that dieting was never looked at, that 35% of the study were smokers, at least 3 of the studies were self-reported and the study tried wave away people dying with BMI under 22 because more of them smoked.
Do I have a point? It's pretty simple. No one really knows anything. No one is sure is fat causes or helps fight diseases or if fat is a symptom not a cause of heart disease or diabetes. That is the issue, that is my problem. I'm sick of seeing articles that automatically assume fat causes X,Y,Z when there is research out there that states otherwise.
