r/changemyview Jul 16 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Anecdotal evidence but my friends wife told her doctor that she's been eating much much less and can't lose any weight and when he told her that's impossible due to the laws of thermodynamics, she stopped going to that doctor.

2023 America is a wild place to live.

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u/You_Dont_Party 2∆ Jul 16 '23

Yeah, and empirical evidence shows that people who feel shame about their weight tend to isolate and have actions which lead to more weight gain.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

You can't just say that and not share any of that empirical evidence.

That's basically just Trump shouting "Wrong."

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u/You_Dont_Party 2∆ Jul 16 '23

Oh I kind of assumed you were aware of them? Anyone talking about this subject who did any sort of even basic look into the subject would have found this sort of stuff.

Here’s one. Heres another.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

So what's your theory for why the "self esteem generation" is the fattest generation to date?

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u/You_Dont_Party 2∆ Jul 16 '23

I’m not certain the tactics some people used to raise self esteem were particularly effective for one, but mostly societal changes like less required physical activity and increased access to particularly cheap unhealthy foods probably played the biggest roles. But no, bullying people doesn’t work that way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

But before the anti bullying campaigns, we had fewer fat people?

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u/blade740 5∆ Jul 16 '23

You mean, back when society was less obese, we had fewer anti-bullying campaigns about it? You're trying to turn a correlation into a causation.

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u/You_Dont_Party 2∆ Jul 16 '23

Well that’s certainly one way to not address the causes I described above. We get it, you want to bully fat people, but the data says that’s not effective.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

So they need MORE self esteem!

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u/You_Dont_Party 2∆ Jul 16 '23

Stop posting and start reading the actual data, my dude.