Sandra Aamodt
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“The intense focus on weight loss suggests that obesity must be uniquely deadly, but that’s far from true. Low fitness, smoking, high blood pressure,41 low income,42 and loneliness43 are all better predictors of early death than obesity, when considered individually.”
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
“A person who was stranded on a desert island would live a lot longer on hot dogs than on spinach.”
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
“Take a moment to think about that. Doctors routinely recommend a treatment for obesity (dieting) that is likely to result in their patients’ gaining more weight. After one of my talks, a doctor told me that it felt unethical not to recommend dieting to her obese patients, but when I asked her about the ethics of prescribing a treatment with such a high failure rate, she fell silent.”
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
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