Obesity changes the brain, with ‘no sign of reversibility,’ expert says

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15 points·clouddrover··5 comments

"The dogma we've been promoting for decades - Eat Less, Move More - doesn't work, so don't stigmatize those listening to us"

No mention of processed food. No mention of carbohydrate restriction, time-restricted eating/fasting, paleo/keto/carnivore diet successes..

As someone who was obese and has remained healthy for the last decade without gaining the weight back or calorie counting, this article smells like fresh horseshit meant to lay the groundwork for the pharmaceutical industry to treat all obesity as a chronic, idiopathic condition they can "correct the balance" of.

After all, it couldn't possibly be that keeping everyone's blood glucose elevated with exogenous carbohydrates results in hunger-satiety dysregulation, among other things. Certainly not! Inflammation is totally not a thing and definitely doesn't contribute to cardiovascular disease. It must be that your body is permanently broken and only drugs can cure you! /s

How did the study establish causality? Basically, how did they determine that obese people lose the “gut-brain” reward connection, as opposed to people who lack the connection being the ones who become obese in the first place?

The fact that this connection isn’t regained after weight loss would suggest that it was the genetic lack of this connection that led the participants to become obese, as opposed to obesity causing them to lose this connection.

overeating at night is the hardest part of losing weight .

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/01/19/Evening-may-be-mo...

i have found this to be true for myself

Pretty sure multi day fasting reverses this.

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