With thanks to vantid, I've just watched Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity. It's not a very good lecture: the speaker gabbles a bit, and spends fully half his time on his introduction, but it gets into interesting stuff at about fifty minutes in ( Read more... )

I'm overweight. Not by much (body-mass index of 27, on a fairly light build), but I've got a bit of podge going around my belly. I don't like it; it's heavy and in the way and it feels weird when I bend over. I've had thirty-plus years to get used to being light and quick and I want to stay like that. And, especially annoyingly, fat makes ( Read more... )

When you're young you can eat what you like, drink what you like, and still climb into your twenty-six-inch-waist trousers and zip them closed. But then you reach that age... twenty-six, twenty-seven... your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag and without any warning you're suddenly a fat bastard.

- Carter, the Unstoppable Sex Machine
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