Why Are Thin People Not Fat?
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The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing?
Medical science has been obsessed with this subject and is coming up with some unexpected answers. As it turns out, it is not all about exercise and diet.
At the center of this programme is a controversial overeating experiment that aims to identify exactly what it is about some people that makes it hard for them to bulk up.
TO ALL SKINNIES: Speaking as a skinny ass ectomorph though whos always struggled to gain mass, a vegan diet is prob the worst thing you could do, that is unless you had disposable income to afford added protein vegan foods... or the massive will power to constantly just eat nuts and dried fruit, which are again expensive if you want the healthy ones.
Personally for dude whos 6ft 2 and weighed 9 stone at my unhealthiest, I have tried to maintain a well rounded diet, but with the added extras of whole milk, peanut butter (ideally the healthy stuff) and as much dried fruit, eggs and nuts as I can stomach (not much at all).
Realistically I cannot afford to eat 6 meals a day as recommended to gain mass so these fillers (esp peanut butter and milk) are a godsend. I LOVE meat btw, but pork is def not a healthy one (though is cheapest) so try to only eat pork once or twice a week. Am starting to do one day a week with no meat also as Arnie recommends trying. I do push weights, stick to 3 main excercises, 3 sets, and bout 3 times a week. It is a struggle to keep the weight on still, as I have to eat something heavy every 2/3 hours and I am easily distracted by my work (selling songs) and hobby (making music) sometimes it can mean I starve myself stupidly and end up cutting weight unintentionally. But at my healthiest so far I now weigh 11.12 stone. Ideally want to get to 13 stone so I can break this body type, hate the fact everyone assumes I am skinny still, but I aint gonna walk around flexin with my top off to just to prove im not. So def still got a ways to go but once I get my income up a bit that should be easy enough from here on out.
Sugars not that bad as long as you moderate respectively. But diet drinks and no sugar squash with artificial sweeteners seem totally counter productive, not to mention can possibly cause brain cell death and a heap of other disorders...and they taste like shit. Better off with water, whole milk, and I always have glass of grape juice or pineapple juice with breakfast (Ive noticed if I dont keep this ritual up, the weight loss starts , very subtle, but it does begin to happen) SO GET DAT SUGAR IN YA AND BURN IT OFF WITH WEIGHTS!
BTW anyone on here body shaming people should be ashamed of themselves. You have no idea what its like in someone elses body, so stop making sweeping generalist statements about how fat people are lazy or skinny people are...lazy. Lol can you see the contradiction there?? Yes to change either body type takes huge will power (which some people just dont have) however there is also a lot of other factors to consider (medicine, medical conditions, genes, etc) Also nowadays everything boasts how healthy it is even though its quite often the opposite, a lot of people are just products of they environment and believe these products cannot legally lie to them. These people also believe the government has never lied about anything ever (despite numerous false flag invasions and the federal reserve which prove otherwise) Just think for yourself. Anything natural is prob healthy, anything mass produced by man is prob poisoning you for pure profits. This is why balance is key, we cannot all afford to eat natural foods 24/7 and even if we did we would never gain weight as most natural stuff has such low calories. Also theres so much misinformation out there now, you cant even google a damn thing without at least 2 skools of thought, means REAL TRUTH has gone the way of the dinosaurs, so use ur brain before it gets murked from aspartame n shit. Peace yall x
I know people who eat a lot, don't exercise much, yet stay thin. The people who commented here giving one answer fits all people are typical know-it-all pieces of ****. Each person is different and there are many factors that cause people to get fat but not all those factors apply to everyone.
"At the center of this programme is a controversial overeating experiment that aims to identify exactly what it is about some people that makes it hard for them to bulk up" - thing is you really don't have to bulk up at all.. Especially with the earlier mentioned obesity-epidemic.. The conclusion of the documentary is [SPOILER ALERT], that the genes are defining your body shape (however, body shape may be manipulated by your lifestyle due to certain genes being "activated" and processing a certain .. So why is there a constant pressure to serve a certain "goal weight"? No such thing exists. Accept who you are, and if you consider yourself "too skinny" then you haven't found self-acceptance yet..
The answer is your gut bacteria controls what cravings you have. I didn't even watch the video, but I am telling you anyway. If you have a microbiome because of your diet filled with meat, cheese, eggs, and dairy, then your 'bacterial brain' will make those choices for you, and then you have to use your real brain to resist, and that sucks. I know, because I yo-yo about 15lb back and forth when I put 'normal (American)' amounts of Meat/Dairy/Eggs into my diet. When I eat rice, veg, tofu, and sauces (which are also unhealthy, I'm sure), I'm fine, even when I also eat tonnes of sugar throughout. For my body, at least, it is 100% the animal products that cause problems. (But I'm sure I could loose more if I cut out sugar, too.) I'm currently on a high (123 lbs - healthy weight for me is like 105-107ish), and I'm always hungry all the time due to lack of fibre. WHAT ARE THESE CHOICES YOU ARE MAKING, ME?!
As a thin person for all my life I can definitely identify myself with the study people. It is what it is, it really is in the genes!
Because we don't constantly stuff our faces.
You're not breaking the laws of physics, fatties: if you're gaining weight, it means you consumed it.
Mass is NOT spontaneously generated within your body.
What a bunch of BS! Bigger people do not have bigger stomachs. Nor, do they crave more food! I was a thin person all my life. 67" and never over 135#, until i gained 75# in 6 months. I really knew something was wrong and found out I had Hoshimoto's thyroiditis. The thyroid meds are are a weak replacement at best. I still can't loose weight and my BP and Cholesterol have increased considerably, despite I'm nearly vegan and ingest scant amounts of animal products, and never any butter, cheese, or milk-fat of any kind. As far as craving more food; I only get hungry around once a day. This is a classic symptom of Hoshimoto's-low appetite. I've always been a nibbler, and the current studies show, I've the classic pre-disorder profile: thin female with history of low appetite. Also, here's a kicker; 1-10 adults have this disorder in the USA. I know, because I'm an RN and have done the research. So, just saying, you people don't know what you're talking about and let your fear and prejudice of fat people control your thoughts.
Bigger people have bigger stomachs - the bigger the stomach, the more calories you intake... And the more weight you put on. The more weight you put on, the bigger you get. The bigger you get, the more energy you need. The more energy you need, the more you need to eat. The more you need to eat, the bigger the stomach gets. The bigger the stomach, the more calories you intake...
People are so stupied its insulin cause of obesidy
Oh and we're now all on ketogenic diets, because we were born with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia. That changed our lives lipid-wise. We eat fatty meat, cream, fatty fish, chicken with skin, duck, goose, almost zero carbs and we've just gone thinner, but with best lipid profiles ever in our lives. Doctors are astounded. Very easy life direction - we like our food now to boot.
I do think fat kids happen to parents who are obsessed with food, whether healthy food or not. The thing is not to make kids overly conscious of food, in my opinion. I remember taking my young toddler to a paediatrician coz he wouldn't eat and the goodly doc said: "so what's your problem?" he'll eat if his hungry (after ruling out anything else) - my son grew up as a thin person, like the rest of my family. We start cooking when we're hungry and then they'll sort of eat on the fly. I've noticed ppl going into intense discussions about food in front of their babes. I think don't do it.
What happened to their health statistics ? They didn't comment on that. Those who didn't gain weight, I suspect their cholesterol and blood pressure for example went up, so their risk of cardiovascular diseases increased.
this is in line with jon gabriel's way of losing weight...
Do fat people actually eat more than the thin people per hour, per day, per week and so on...? Record their habit of physical movement, and frequency of eating and total it for the whole month, fat people actually take in more food compare it to thin people. (Fat people think that he equation for food is 1X1X1....=X, but 1+1+1...=X). The more you put into your mouth, the more you gonna get it. Fat people crave for food more times than the thin people.
Fat people when they see a lot of food they have a big appetite, while thin people when they see a lot of food, they are disgusted.
I allow for the idea that some people are genetically predisposed to weigh more or less, but the majority of people don't differ violently enough to escape the fact they will, with a healthy lifestyle sit within the 'healthy' bmi range...that's what averages mean.
And even if you don't sit in that category (like myself), when did regular exercise and a healthy diet cause anyone more problems long term?
An overweight person saying 'I cant lose weight - I'm genetically predisposed to being overweight' is like me saying the same about being underweight. Yet, I accept I can push into that 'healthy' bracket with a little more work. I CHOOSE not to exert the extra effort required to achieve that, so I don't whinge when (as happens almost daily) people comment on my being underweight.
The difference between my being underweight and -for eg- my friend who is overweight isn't in which end of the spectrum we sit in terms of weight, but in attitude.
The other day, I said she might benefit from directing her frustration about being overweight into going for a brisk walk, that it'd help her -in the long term- fight her negative feelings much as anything...and her reply was 'depression runs in my family, I cant escape it wherever I damn well walk'.
I'm bipolar and have been underweight my whole life despite having always had a very healthy lifestyle; I know well as anyone exercise and diet isn't going to 'cure' bipolar or change my body type.
The issue isn't genes or illness, it is attitude. my friend says a walk isn't likely to cure her weight problem or depression. I say walking isn't likely to make things worse, and may just alleviate my reactionary depression and improve my physical health...so lets do it.
As for 'fast food is addictive'...if that information is true it has an instrumental and positive use in identifying and then addressing the problem of people who are addicted and in preventing addiction more generally. But it seems all the 'genetically predisposed to being overweight', 'under active thyroid' and 'fast food is addictive' theories often only serve as excuses by people who are unwilling to accept responsibility for their lives and their bodies.
You are not fat because you have problems; you are fat because you won't address those problems...
Amen.
The problem with ALL obesity research is that it's goal is not to find a solution, but to find another blockbuster drug that would have to be taken on everyday basis. That guarantees a total failure just like the "war on cancer".
obesity is not a one factor thing...it's genetic and epigenetic...many fast foods...high salt/sugar/fat are addictive, spiking dopamine levels with opiate like after effects. They should measure Intestinal Alkaline Phospatase(fat busting enzyme) of the subjects and obese people. Take your probiotics and your "fat virus" will disappear
Thank F*@# for the Brits/Canuckidans and their socialist medical care system, because of this we can get REAL info from peer reviewed legit clinicians and scientists unlike in the States where big pharma either owns out right or has a controling interest in every medical school and controls the purse strings of almost every University level researcher's grants. The US is in decline because ignorance has been a boon to those who can profit from it and most Americans are too busy w/ the latest cell phone apps and/or reality TV programing.
Pizza with MAYONNAISE?
I lost weight by just eating 1,200 calories and cycling for two hours a day. It worked for me. I'm still going under the knife to reshape my body to my ideal shape. I want to have a smaller waist than my hips. Unfortunately, my hips are narrow so there is no diet or exercise I could do to get the hourglass look I want. F*** everyone else I want to have the body of Dipannita Sharma. To me that's the perfect body shape I want for me.
The show was kinda boring but I kept watching until the popcorn ran out!!
I'm lucky enough to be one of these people. In high school everyone always asked me what diet I was on...I literally ate whatever I wanted and rarely exercised.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.
an excellent documentary! theories were proven. and now i understand why eventhough my sister & i eat the same amount of food everyday, she NEVER gets fat but I do. hehe. but this doesn't mean that i would stop my diet & exercise. it makes me feel healthy. ^-^
This is me all over, i can eat anythying... in actual fact, i might go and eat a massive cream donut now, and not feel guilty one bit... because my natural weight is already determined, i wont even have to worry about it!!! I think i might go and eat 7 actually. UNLUCKY FAT PEOPLE! Lets just hope i dont get the 'fat virus' lmao!