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re: Do you believe obesity is a disability?
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:44 pm to Bleeding purple
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:44 pm to Bleeding purple
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With the exception of physically cutting away tissue instead of expending energy, no, no there is not.
If you feel strongly about it, please elaborate.
Genetics do matter. There are people my same weight as I am now that get different results if we both went on the same diet. They could eat the same amount of calories as me and do the exact same amount of exercise as me and they would end up at a different weight than me. Things like hormones, drugs, metabolism etc do matter.
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Posted on 4/1/15 at 2:11 pm to lsu480
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Things like hormones, drugs, metabolism etc do matter
Yes, but they all matter on the expenditure side of the issue. No one is saying that exercise is the only consideration on the expenditure side of the equation. It is however, the portion you have the most control over. If you have a low metabolism and thus a low resting expenditure of calories then you will need to make up the difference by either eating less or moving more. If you use drugs that elevate our resting metabolic expenditure the you will not have to eat as few calories or exercise as much.
It is still:
calories in > calories expended = weight gain
calories in = calories expended = weight neutral
calories in < calories expended = weight loss
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