The Hacker's Diet is a diet book by an engineer that figured out how to reduce his weight from 215 to 145 in a year after spending years being fat. It also includes the exercise program for people that don't want to exercise that takes 15 minutes. Free and recommended.
Tag: obesity
Social Contagion & Tolerance
In 2007, The New England Journal of Medicine had a study on obesity and social networks that has results that said: "A person’s chances of becoming obese increased by 57% (95% confidence interval [CI], 6 to 123) if he or she had a friend who became obese in a given interval. Among pairs of adult … Continue reading Social Contagion & Tolerance
Obesity in America 2018: 7 charts that explain why it’s so easy to gain weight – Vox
"Sure, it’s possible to have a small, healthy meal at a restaurant. But researchers have found that people typically eat 20 to 40 percent more calories in restaurants compared with what they’d eat at home." —Eliza Barclay, Julia Belluz, and Javier Zarracina. "Obesity in America 2018: 7 charts that explain why it’s so easy to … Continue reading Obesity in America 2018: 7 charts that explain why it’s so easy to gain weight – Vox
The Case Against Sugar
"In America today, nearly 10% of the population has diabetes; more than two-thirds of us are overweight or obese; and one out of 10 kids are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. The journalist Gary Taubes blames all of these afflictions on one culprit: sugar." —Gary Taubes. Interview with Doug Fabrizio. "The Case Against … Continue reading The Case Against Sugar
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