Obesity: five facts

[Aractus]

You believe what you read, I don't, these people who say that they have tried every diet and lost nothing, are most times lying, they may have tried the diet or sensible way of eating, but that is where it ends, they only tried, which is useless.

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Can you at least use the HIDE tags if you're going to quote an entire reply of that length?

You haven't answered my question because you can't. Magda Szubanski lost 36kg on Jenny Craig - that put her down to at least a non-obese weight. She is 53 years old at present - so in November 2008 when she joined Jenny Craig she was 48 at the time. She weighted 110 kg - so that's an average weight gain of less than 2.3 kg per year from the time she was born. Would we agree upon that?

She lost 36 kg by July the following year. Then within about a year she put almost all the weight back on, and was dropped as a spokesperson for the company. At 2.3 kg per year average weight gain, it should have taken her at least 15 years to regain the weight by your explanation that obesity is simply caused by over eating. How did she regain 15 years worth of weight gain in just 1 year? How do you explain that?

My point is that obesity is a public health matter and not an individual matter. It is caused by factors that are well outside of personal responsibility. We now know, for instance, that the mother's weight and diet during pregnancy pre-programs the infant to become more susceptible to becoming obese both as a baby and child and later in life as an adult. Obesity prevention has to start at pregnancy.