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ORIGINAL: Kirata
Increased Food Intake Alone Explains Rise In Obesity In United States, Study Finds
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The researchers found that in children, the predicted and actual weight increase matched exactly, indicating that the increases in energy intake alone over the 30 years studied could explain the weight increase....
"For adults, we predicted that they would be 10.8 kg heavier, but in fact they were 8.6 kg heavier. That suggests that excess food intake still explains the weight gain, but that there may have been increases in physical activity over the 30 years that have blunted what would otherwise have been a higher weight gain," Swinburn said.
He emphasized that physical activity should not be ignored as a contributor to reducing obesity and should continue to be promoted because of its many other benefits, but that expectations regarding what can be achieved with exercise need to be lowered and public health policy shifted more toward encouraging people to eat less.
K.
Wow, you don't say, whoever thought to linking the eating of more food to increased body size, what a novel idea.
Of course it is, I always knew that, the more food eaten, and not only of the wrong type, but any food in excess leads to increased mass, what is wrong with people.
Now I don't need to worry about waist line, mine stays the same no matter how much or how little I eat, has been that way for the last 30 yrs or so,the effect is I can't develop visual muscle, but I can't develop fat either.
I have gone sort of vegetarian, not because of ethics and stuff, but because I cannot afford organic meat, so I do still eat meat, but reserve it for a special occaision, a treat for myself now and again and I eat it with relish. Processed meat, mechanically recovered meat, I am wary of, this cradle to the prime in the shortest amount of time possible isn't natural, perhaps we are reaping what we have sown.
Now, I don't need to lose weight, nor gain it, but my diet has made me healthier in both body and mind, so perhaps meat is not meant to be eaten all the time, perhaps look at our ancestors, what they ate, those who had a good diet, what was it they were doing. The same with Asia, the middle east, the far east, the mediterranean, places where heart disease and the various cancers are not so much of a problem, what are they doing right and us in the west doing totally wrong.
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RE: Eat Less, Lose Weight - 
Oh my!! Isn't it amazing the amount of fat, calories and sodium in "simple dishes"? I ate a simple meal at one of my favorite restaurants and decided to check the nutritional value (of course this was after the fact). I was almost in tears when I saw how unhealthy it was. That was all I needed to keep me out of that restaurant even if they do serve lower calorie meals. 
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