![]() ![]() ![]() Thinness is a sign of social status, and is to some extent a product of it, which is one reason - probably the main reason - why it’s so prized, especially among women. Or (like the upper West Side women) they stay on a permanent restricted lifestyle that the vast majority of people don’t have the combination of willpower and social privilege to maintain. They do the experiment, the experiment doesn’t work in the vast majority of cases, so they quit until they get desperate again. Megan : Is there any evidence this works? Don’t people just stop going to the gym when they notice they haven’t lost any weight? Paul : I know for a fact (because they’ve told me) that some public health officials engage in what they think of as a noble lie about the effects of physical activity on weight, because they know people won’t become more active just to be healthier. Megan McArdle interviews Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth : ![]()
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