and Jeffrey Hunger, go figure
Simply being called 'fat' makes young girls more likely to become obese
OMG. STFU.
Overall, the girls labeled fat were 1.66 times more likely than the other girls to be obese at 19, the researchers found. They also found that as the number people who told a girl she was fat increased, so did the likelihood that she would be obese nine years later.That's just stupid. If they are told they are fat by age 10, they probably are prone to obesity.
"Even after we statistically removed the effects of their actual weight, their income, their race and when they reached puberty, the effect remained.NO, dumbass, this is not the magical stress effect you psychs so love to conjure up.
"That means it's not just that heavier girls are called too fat and are still heavy years later; being labeled as too fat is creating an additional likelihood of being obese."Co-author Jeffrey Hunger, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, said that simply being called fat may lead to behaviors that later result in obesity.
"Being labeled as too fat may lead people to worry about personally experiencing the stigma and discrimination faced by overweight individuals, and recent research suggests that experiencing or anticipating weight stigma increases stress and can lead to overeating," he said.
Girls who are told they are fat go on DIETS, and current diet protocols cause obesity.
LOW FAT DIETING CAUSES WEIGHT GAIN in hyperinsulinemic individuals.
The answer is in front of your face.
Under your nose.
The rest of the article covers a couple other studies...
The research findings also confirmed the results of a 2007 study in which Tomiyama, Mann and colleagues analyzed 31 long-term studies and found that people can initially lose 5 to 10 percent of their weight on any number of diets, but the majority regain all the weight, plus more. Only a small minority, they discovered, sustain their weight loss.Yeah, you're right, the dieting industry is worthless. Maybe you underappreciate the role of their erroneous dieting advice.
"If dieting worked, it wouldn't be a $60 billion dollar industry," said Tomiyama, who noted that trying to be thin is similar to trying to be taller.
"The genetic power over weight is about the same as the power of genes over your height," she said. "People who say it's your fault if you're fat underappreciate the role of genes."
