I wonder if the rhyme or reason might be to do with the metabolism slowing down in response to low availability of calories. and maybe that happens more quickly in some people than in others. The mysterious bit would be if there were some people who could starve themselves without their metabolism slowing down. But we know that’s not true for obese people because dieting and exercise don’t work as treatments for obesity.
So, all diets work for a bit, people tell their friends about them, write books, etc. They spread like wildfire for a bit and then they stop working and so people stop talking about them. And repeat.
That leaves a fair number of people with slow metabolisms. So obviously they put on weight when they start eating properly again. Storing calories for future famines. But they’re doing that at the expense of things they might rather be doing with their calories, like fighting off invading infectious agents.
I guess I now have to predict that dieting fat people and anorexics get lots of symptoms associated with hypothyroidism. Anyone know if that’s true? Is dieting part of this ‘stress’ that doesn’t seem to be a real thing?
I wonder if the rhyme or reason might be to do with the metabolism slowing down in response to low availability of calories. and maybe that happens more quickly in some people than in others. The mysterious bit would be if there were some people who could starve themselves without their metabolism slowing down. But we know that’s not true for obese people because dieting and exercise don’t work as treatments for obesity.
So, all diets work for a bit, people tell their friends about them, write books, etc. They spread like wildfire for a bit and then they stop working and so people stop talking about them. And repeat.
That leaves a fair number of people with slow metabolisms. So obviously they put on weight when they start eating properly again. Storing calories for future famines. But they’re doing that at the expense of things they might rather be doing with their calories, like fighting off invading infectious agents.
I guess I now have to predict that dieting fat people and anorexics get lots of symptoms associated with hypothyroidism. Anyone know if that’s true? Is dieting part of this ‘stress’ that doesn’t seem to be a real thing?