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Conversations with Source: Leptin Resistance, is it a racket?
Trying a different way to look at the obesity epidemic
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What is up with the ever growing number of sales videos pushing Leptin resistance supplements?
Leptin is sometimes called the satiety hormone.
First guestion to Source: is leptin resistance real? yes, says Source. It is.
Source says that people who never diet, have never dieted, don’t get fat.
The next question: even if they eat the same food that makes us fat? the answer was ‘no’. If they eat the same food as dieters eat, everybody gets fat.
WTF?
OK, let me go back in time and remember WHAT I ate back 60 years ago when I first went from normal to fat?
I was about 10 years old. Previously I was a skinny kid. But I heard somewhere that eating whole grains is healthy and it would prevent me from going fat. I wasn’t fat. I wasn’t overweight. So why did I start on this fad? In addition to the fact that whole grains taste like sawdust, they also made me fat.
Let me ask Source a new question? Do fat/dieting people eat something because they think it is good for them? the answer is…