they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts
Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.
In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2].Ā
In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight.Ā
1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog.
2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research.
3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.
Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].
4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicareās Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.
The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called ānormalā weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000Ā [5].
5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). āProbability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.ā American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1āe6.
Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesnāt work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],Ā addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].
6. Magro, DaniĆ©la Oliviera, et al. āLong-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.ā SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008.
7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. āDeath Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.ā Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.Ā
8. King, Wendy C., et al. āPrevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.ā Jama Network, 20 June 2012.Ā
9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. āMineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.ā Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.
Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].
10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. āLongāterm Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?ā Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.
Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].
11. Patton, GC, et al. āOnset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.ā BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.
The idea that āobesityā is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12].Ā
12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. āIdeology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationshipā Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.
āObesityā has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].
13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. āObesity and Insulin Resistance.ā The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000.
14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. āUse of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.ā Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.Ā
15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. āObesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.ā Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.Ā
16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. āObesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.ā The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.Ā
17. Mullen, John T, et al. āThe Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.ā Annals of Surgery, July 2005.Ā 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. āObesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.ā Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.
Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being āoverweightā conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].
19. Flegal, Katherine M. āThe Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.ā Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.
Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called ānormal weightā people are āunhealthyā whereas about 50% of so-called āoverweightā people are āhealthyā. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20].Ā
20. Rey-López, JP, et al. āThe Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.ā Obesity ReviewsāÆ: An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.
While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25ābranding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnightāto match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].
21. Butler, Kiera. āWhy BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.ā Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014.Ā
Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].
22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. āEvidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environmentā American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.
Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].Ā Ā
23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. āHealthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.ā Journal of the American Board of Family MedicineāÆ: JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.
Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].
24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. āWeight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .ā Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.
Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].
25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. āBias, Discrimination, and Obesity.ā Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012.
26. Engber, Daniel. āGlutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?ā Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.Ā
27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68ā78.
28. Chastain, Ragen. āSo My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.ā Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009.Ā 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. āWeight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.ā Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.
There's my "proof." Where is yours?