Episode 070: Real Health Radio is back with another episode. This week it is all about weight and its impact on health.
I discuss whether body fat matters or is it all about habits. I cover weight bias, correlation versus causation, discrimination, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and much more.
00:05:40
My beliefs about weight
00:08:05
Why weight is only one (often small) factor in health
00:09:45
Healthy versus unhealthy habits
00:16:45
No one should be discriminated based on their weight
00:21:10
Everyone has their own biases, even me
00:23:55
Weight and correlation instead of causation
00:24:55
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
00:29:55
Why we shouldn’t totally ignore weight
00:32:15
When weight loss is going to be more (or less) likely
00:34:40
The problem with sitting at an unnatural weight for your body
00:36:40
When the body can no longer get any fatter
00:40:30
I’m not against weight loss but their needs to be a big picture context
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Hi Chris,
This is one of my favourite episodes!. Quite shocking the way you put it into context people’s biases about weight
If you don’t mind, I have 6 questions for you?
If you are too busy, would you like to come back on my Podcast for a round 2?
1) I’d love to know if a SET point weight has anything to do with body composition. Does muscle mass count?
i.e if your body’s set range was say 60-70KG could you stay 60-70KG but lose fat and gain muscle and your body remain healthy?
2) If you were to lose weight in a healthy way, like you last guest do you have to restrict to stay that weight until you are able to move your set point down?
For example in this video which you refer to in your podcasthttps://youtu.be/jn0Ygp7pMbA they discuss losing 10% of your body weight means you forever have to eat a whole meal less a day! Again what if you build muscle?
3) You say over consumption of calories leads to cells to stop responding and lead to insulin resistance, diabetes, etc in the long run, how long is the long run and were you in danger of this during your over eating experiment? Is that why you stopped early?
4) How long do you need to stay in a lower set point for it to stay?
5) How important is it for us to follow Macro nutrient ratio’s? Intuitive Eating would suggest to listen to your body and 1 day may eat different to the next whereas if on a Macro controlled diet you’d eat the same every day or at least the same calories and the only different Can rates due to exercise..
6) Surely we are are healthier with more muscle, metabolically active, stronger bones, etc is there a point muscle weight gets too much for joints?? Or do our joints and bones grow strong as our muscles grow strong?