obesity

Everyone ran from fat like it was the plague, believing it to be responsible for heart disease and obesity.

Seems like a proxy for measuring self control that would be biased towards people with a propensity for obesity.

Could the obesity be related to the fact that they were better at optimizing for candy intake?

It was more of ranting/reactionary sub against fat-acceptance movement and a trend to treat obesity as a normal thing.

Plus, depression, obesity, brain degeneration and everything else that self-control can fix should compensate really well...

Only excess calories (of any macronutrient, including protein) will lead to bodyweight storage, and eventually obesity.

Also just look at the health of rural people versus urban people in the US--the obesity crisis ain't happening in cities.

Now no one smokes, but we have an obesity/diabetes epidemic, and people bring in homemade cookies or brownies every day.

Continuous health monitoring is helpful, but I think obesity statistics bear out how much people generally care about their own health.

It may take a few years, but governments beset by rising medical care costs (many of which are obesity-related) are inevitably going to try for some recovery.

Carbs do not imply obesity, neither does fat.

First, there are studies about screen time, it's not anecdotal that too much screen time hurts a kid's creativity/imagination and can be linked to childhood obesity and trouble sleeping.

Here's what she says about childhood obesity: "My amateur diagnosis is that the childhood obesity problem is a direct result of the whole constellation of social changes initiated by the sixties.

Ludwig is the director of the Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and the author of the forthcoming book “Always Hungry?

> "But is my taste for sweets as destructive as this?" I'm pretty sure obesity kills more people than social games.

It's pretty useful for individuals so long as you make adjustments for people who exercise every day (ie, very few people) or people over about 6'5" (again, not many people) and very obese people (where it tends to under-estimate obesity).