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by naasking 1260 days ago
> Next: if you can believe that one person is such an outlier, can you believe that hundreds are? Thousands? Millions?

Yes, those people exist as outliers. But a population-level outlier theory doesn't explain why obesity is growing in the population.
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scrollaway 1260 days ago
ADHD used to be only a tiny amount of outliers and is growing, thanks to the lifestyle we lead.

Obesity is similar. This feeling of hunger is thrown out of whack often not by genetic but by lifestyle. I’m lucky enough that I haven’t felt it all my life, but I have felt it during multiple phases of my life; i know exactly how eating the wrong kinds of food can teach your body to eat more than it needs and to adapt to that new number.

Our environment sucks ass.

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chownie 1260 days ago
> ADHD used to be only a tiny amount of outliers and is growing, thanks to the lifestyle we lead.

I think this might be a misunderstanding. Rates of ADHD may be higher but I think it's more likely we have an environment which now challenges people with ADHD more than in the past.

The advent of electrical lighting did not cause an increase in pattern-reactive epilepsy, it just created conditions in which pattern-reactive epilepsy were more likely to be triggered. I believe now is the same.

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_cenw 1260 days ago
If increased stress and the demand for 8 hours of uninterrupted mentally challenging work exacerbates ADHD, why wouldn't increased food availability - especially high density ones - exacerbate obesity in those with a a satiety loop defect.

If you eat until you are no longer physically capable of eating more it sure matters if you ate vegetables or pastries.

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naijaboiler 1260 days ago
same thing we now have an environment that challenges our starvation signals in ways our ancestors never had to deal with. They never had an ever present source of dense calory food.
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naasking 1260 days ago
> ADHD used to be only a tiny amount of outliers and is growing, thanks to the lifestyle we lead.

That's speculative I believe. Last I checked, I think they chalked this up to better diagnosis.

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CadmiumYellow 1260 days ago
I've had the same experience and I agree. It's deeply ingrained but it's not hardwired so it can be changed, it just requires going against the grain in almost every area of your life in order to avoid being impacted by the modern food environment (in America at least).
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