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I’m going to recommend a book I disagree with. It’s THE TRUTH ABOUT FAT by @One_Angry_Chef. He thinks obesity is COMPLICATED. I think it’s SIMPLE. His book wonderfully lays out the position I don’t hold. THREADing here. amazon.com/Truth-About-Fa…
There are things about obesity that ARE complicated. Metabolism, genetics, hormones, etc. All complicated, but all essentially beside the point because the problem isn’t what’s happening INSIDE our bodies. It’s OUTSIDE. It’s the FOOD ENVIRONMENT. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food…
Sure, some people navigate the food environment without gaining weight. In the US it’s only about 25% of us. When 75% of humans can’t navigate the environment, the problem isn’t the HUMANS. It’s the SYSTEM. (Yeah, you've heard me say this before ... sorry)
The food industry is GENIUS at overwhelming ordinary human willpower. They have billions of dollars to make things irresistible. Succumbing isn’t a CHARACTER FLAW! It’s the expected result when we’re WILDLY overmatched. discovermagazine.com/2018/may/one-b…
But focusing on WHY that 25% doesn’t gain weight is like trying to figure out why some people excel at piano, or tennis, or math. Humans are a mishmash of capabilities. Also, resources like money & education help, but not as much as you’d think. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food…
Here’s the essential point: obesity doesn’t require biochemical dysfunction. We eat because we’re hungry, but we also eat because we’re TEMPTED. Food tastes good! And when it’s in our face 24/7, well … discovermagazine.com/2016/nov/siren…
I speculate (repeat SPECULATE) that making obesity complicated makes it seem like weight loss is beyond the understanding of ordinary people trying to lose a few pounds. If you don’t think you can understand it, how can you believe it’s within your power to lose weight.
We agree on some very important stuff. WEIGHT STIGMA is mean and stress-inducing and generally horrible. Nobody who doesn’t want to lose weight should be pressured to do so. KINDNESS should rule this conversation. Read @rottenindenmark on this.
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While I hope to persuade you that obesity is a straightforward problem of an overwhelming food environment, I think @One_Angry_Chef makes the very best case for the opposite position, and everyone should read his book. THE END. amazon.com/Truth-About-Fa…
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Oooh fun! A new meta-analysis of artificial sweeteners and weight loss. The conclusion? Meh. But wait! There's a fundamental problem here. Let's look at it. 1/ bmj.com/content/364/bm…
There are 2 kinds of studies, observational and clinical trials. And, for artificial sweeteners, they get very different results. Out in the world, people who use them tend to weigh more than people who don't. See this 2018 review. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29570245
This is probably a case of reverse causality - the more dissatisfied you are with your weight, the more likely you are to use artificial sweeteners. Also, since many nutrition pros frown on them, they may be a proxy for bad dieting strategies.
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For year-end, I'm going to show you how we button up our oyster farm for the winter. It's for all y'all who like the farming nitty gritty. All 7 of you! It starts at dawn on Christmas day. Not always, but this year we had a tide we couldn't afford to lose. 1/
The bags have oysters that were thumbnail-size in June. Now they're 2+ inches, and each bag weighs 35ish pounds, and we have to bring them in so ice doesn't sweep them off to Portugal. This is one of the few jobs where we hire people to help & Gerald is with Kevin and me.
The bags are clipped on both ends to trays, so step one is unclipping them and standing them up. There are 600 bags, and we'll take about 300, because we were able to borrow 2 28-foot boats and 2 box trucks (not being used Xmas day!).
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I would like to use this excellent @rowanjacobsen piece in @newfoodeconomy as an excuse to talk about CHICKEN WELFARE in the EGG business. Because every time I mention it, the same thing happens. So I need a THREAD. newfoodeconomy.org/death-of-the-i…
I say something like let’s not keep chickens in TINY cages where they can barely MOVE. They can’t run, flap, dust bathe, or scratch around. Chickens, left to their own devices, do those things. In those TINY cages, they can’t. Can they be HAPPY?
INVARIABLY, somebody says Tamar! Look at the SCIENCE! And they reference one of several studies that show that there are more injuries and cannibalism in cage-free environments than in TINY CAGES. Like this one. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21177469
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Everything that makes life better for some group ALSO makes life worse for another group.
If you’re building technology, figuring out who will be worse off is at least as important as figuring out who will be better off.
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Good morning! The Last Jedi novelization comes out in PB Tuesday. I'll offer some thoughts from the writing process in roughly chronological order. Hopefully it will be of some interest/answer some of the Qs folks had. (For which thank you.) amzn.to/2zrkytY
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