Thursday, 14 November 2019

The Obesity Paradox

Trigger Warning: For the prospect of sheer unmitigated boredom.

"Obesity almost doubles in 20 years to affect 13 million people". Oh no, way more than 13 million are affected by o-tedium, o-monotony and o-indifference.

Bullet points for a cut out and keep style effect.

Body Mass/Weight/Volume

  • Body weight/mass/volume, is body weight/mass/volume, regardless of a person's weight/mass/volume. 
  • Our bodies, like the bodies of other animals, regulate their own weight/mass/volume as a function of their inherent biology and physiology. 
  • Any desire to alter the aforementioned outcome, in an upward or downward direction demands alteration of the functional settings of said biology/physiology. 
  • Scientists can either get on with that, or continue to not get on with that, as is their wont-it's called academic freedom.

How to Adjust Body Mass/Weight/Volume Unsuccessfully 

  • Come up with a name for this assertion; "obesity". 
  • Make out your 'obesity' is regulated in some way other than the regulation of fat and/or other mass you deem, not excessive. 
  • Insist your "excess" must be starved off. 
  • When it turns out the body is designed to jettison starvation, act as if this cannot possibly be.
  • Continue to cry; "obesity, obesity, obesity" about the land, through your various complaint mouthpieces, as if all the above isn't obvious, if you don't mention it.
  • Repeat to absurdity, trying out various poses for effect: rage- anguish-concern-worry-sympathy 😭etc., slyly following through with requests for unlimited power, influence and interference over people's lives, along with pots of cash in general and for the removal of healthy functioning body parts, and other "services".
Let's call this sort of cognitive fallacy, the "obesity paradox"- The more a method fails, the greater the insistence that repetition itself will turn failure into success.

In order to save your embarrassment, we will all pretend we think this is science.

The (never)end.

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