Dr. Stuart W. Flint, Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity at the University of Leeds. How have I never heard of this guy? Thanks to Show Me the Data, I read an opinion piece by Dr. Flint. It was amazing. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02124 In looking for the article online, I did a Google Scholar search for…
Yet another study that shows that long term significant weight loss is not achievable for most people. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007448 When are they going to stop wasting money on this crap? And this time, the idea is to study the “effectiveness” of “high-intensity, lifestyle-based program for obesity treatment delivered in primary care clinics in which a high…
Famous pollsters Gallup need to get the fuck over themselves. Seriously. In the first two weeks of November they conducted their Health and Healthcare survey. The had responses from 1,015 random adults living in all 50 states and Washington DC. The results were that, in the past decade, there has been a marked increase in…
I swear (often – as you probably already know) – I get tired of seeing studies about weight loss that simply rehash the same old/same old. For example, here is a study about studies! Review of high-quality, follow-up studies of obesity treatments That, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. And I guess…
A recent study out of China, looking at medical records of 36,000 US patients, found that fat people who lose weight after age 47 increase their risk of early death by 30%. Weight Change Across Adulthood And they found gaining weight at middle age and later was not associated with an increase in mortality risk.…
You know how when a business gets such a bad reputation they change their name – thinking nobody will notice they are still the same awful company, just with a new name? Well, apparently somebody thinks that will work for weight loss surgery too. Imagine my surprise when reading about some fat science that weight…
How do you get funding for your research? Associate it with weight loss! No matter how tenuous the connection, no matter if your research already shows that it doesn’t work – more research is needed. You know what? I would love if being fat were a choice. But for most people it isn’t. Just like…
A recent “study” is all over the news this week. http://www.pulseheadlines.com/artificial-sweeteners-lose-weight-linked-overweight-diabetes/65287/ “Artificial Sweeteners Makes you Fatter” (Okay, I’m paraphrasing … but that’s the gist of it.) So I look at the abstract for the study (because no, I’m not shelling out money to read the whole thing, which I probably wouldn’t understand anyhow): http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/28/E929.abstract And…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 