6 korrents from this piece
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Their wordsNo matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
Their wordsIn people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
Their wordsThis is a phenomenon I call the “starvation response”, and it happens because body fat mass is biologically regulated.
Their wordsThis suggests that overfeeding had caused their body fat regulatory system to durably accept a higher “setpoint”.
Our reading
The brain, not insulin or fat tissue, is what ultimately controls the energy balance equation.
Their wordsHowever, whichever side of the energy balance equation is giving orders, the brain appears to be the commander-in-chief of the equation as a whole.
Our reading
Common obesity is not caused by a slow metabolism: people with obesity burn more energy, not less.
Their wordsThis tells us that common obesity is not the result of a reduced metabolic rate– a common but erroneous belief.