Body Weight Of A Person Also Depends On Average Body Weight Of The Population At Large

Another useless chicken or egg study. More obvious stuff of the "been down so long it looks like up to me" research genre. Still, there is value as discussed at the end of this entry.

"According to a new study in Economic Inquiry, an individual's body weight depends not just on physiology and economic circumstances, but also on average body weight of the population at large."

So, in societies where fat people are common, it is common to find fat people.

Big deal.

"'Behavior governing weight depends not just on health considerations but also on the desire to appear normal and attractive,' say authors Mary Burke and Frank Heiland."

Attractive? You decide. (These images were obtained via Google image searches. If there is a copyright holder, please contact me and I will credit you or remove the image, whichever you prefer. Each image links to the file from which it was taken.)









No matter what is written, no matter what is researched, no matter what is devised, no matter what is blamed, unless one consumes fewer Calories than one burns, weight will never, ever come off.

Despite what the moron experts say, like David Katz and Jorge Cruise in their 3-Hour Diet book (see page 55).

Value: what this leads to is a warning. For example, if math test scores are heading south for the population at large, then it is to be expected that mediocre math competence will be recognized as good, if a standard form of a national language is used by fewer members of a society, then it is to be expected that communications among people will suffer from less consistency, etc.

Caveat citizen.