He didn't explain how to lose weight.

@@StefanHundhammer he didn't explain how to lose weight. Stefan Doghammer. Alles klar?

Which sentence

@@fabioooh 56:52 "...obese people are not lazy, they're not morally bereft, they're not bad people. They're FIGHTING THEIR BIOLOGY, okay? They are feeling hungry (I studied it) all the time. This is why they are [paused] the way they are.... THIS IS NOT A MORAL FAILING, Ladies and Gentlemen. IT IS NOT A CHOICE [paused] that we have full control over. Until we understand that, we will never ever fix this obesity problem." That is a very powerful and uplifting message, indeed👏👏👏👏👏. Thank you, Dr. Yeo. Thank you RI for inviting him again and again. I never bored listening to him.

Yes, he is an excellent presenter! I used to say "just stop eating" when I saw TV shows about obese people, but now I feel more enlightened

I do wonder if the mitochondria aren't working properly if this affects weight - i tend to love the quick energy of sugar in small amounts.

As Dr. Yeo said, you are fighting your biology. Unfortunately, it is a war, consists of daily battles. It is long and exhausting and you might want to give up, but you know you can't give up, because the other side of it is a literal death. Please don't be discouraged and keep looking for help. May God blesses you with strength and courage and take you to the winning side of this war🙏🙏🙏.

I believe the things you mentioned are the reasons and add to that the lack of physical exercise. As he said, you can't change your genes, but within the bracket, you can make healthy choices and beat the bad genes you inherited.

Saturation of the metabolism with hormone disruptors and overuse of antibiotics destroying the gut flora

Food pyramid

Why 1984? Pretty sure average body mass rose much earlier.

The two parents working and no one specialising in cooking started way earlier too

So true!

The metabolic issues making some people store thier calories is totally overlooked.

Unless your brother is pooping out the majority of what he eats (in which case there is something seriously wrong with him), you're in fact eating much more than him, and don't realize it. There are two factual issues with questions like yours. 1) People who can eat anything they want as much as they want and not gain weight don't exist, or have very serious medical problems where they can't properly digest food and absorb nutrients. They're probably dead, like the people who always feel hungry, a genetic anomaly. 2) You can't extract more calories from food than is in the food. You won't get magically fat from from an ounce of broccoli. You are eating much more than you think you are. Also, don't forget body composition; you may in fact have 50 lbs more muscle than your brother. Well, I doubt it, but it may be proportional. Only accurate way to test it is to measure your body fat percentage, such as with a dexa scan. Food intake is difficult to measure already, it's impossible to measure by observing someone for 30 minutes in a day. If someone saw me eating lunch, they'd marvel how I am not on the 600 lb TV show. But the fact is, I eat 85-90% of my daily calorie intake on lunch. It is usually my only meal of the day, I usually have a snack or two later in the day. The fact is, you have no idea how much your brother eats, notwithstanding whatever he tells you, because even you don't have any idea how much YOU eat. Food diaries are notoriously inaccurate, by, on average, 40%. We lie to ourselves, consciously and otherwise, constantly. Maybe he eats a lot when he's eating with you, maybe he eats a lot on christmas and easter, but you have no complete information about his eating and exercise habits outside that.

@@mariusvanc differences in resting matabalism can also be a factor, not everyone burns calories at the same rate and some people can have a working digestive system and still struggle to gain weight.

You work out more and eat healthier, so you get bigger. Where's the problem?

Wrong! He showed the Second law of thermodynamics..read again your text books.

@@1967davidfitness Serious question: how is this the second law? I thought 1st was "can't create, can't destroy" and 2nd was "in a closed system entropy cannot decrease". Isn't that graphic saying "to stay the same weight what goes in must equal what comes out"? He literally says, "You can't magic energy from somewhere and you can't magic the energy away." In other words, cannot create nor destroy. How does the scale graphic and what he says describe anything about entropy? What am I missing?

Or you could just eat celery and lettuce salad with no oil and remove the caloric risk. Have you tried to eat an entire lettuce for a meal? I find it an interesting weekly experience.

Rabbits love lettuce, I hope you enjoy it.

If you want to be constantly bloated and weak all the time, do that.

@@1967davidfitness have you ever thought about eating the meat AND the lettuce TOGETHER?

Second law.

I'm dyslexic , I'm lucky its English today 😄

it's first law actually, conservation of energy

oldcowbb no no no , its Murphy's law .

Second law!!!

It's definitely an addiction. I've been really overweight all of my life, but only started trying to lose weight relatively recently. I haven't really tried the dieting thing properly, but for me eating reasonable portion sizes of good food that I actually like and doing some activity that actually makes me feel good to do has given me some slow but steady success, at least on the input-vs-output side of things. To my mind, whatever you do, you have to find some pleasure in it. Trying to find new coping mechanisms is the part I'm struggling the most with right now. Comfort eating was/is my only coping mechanism and that can quickly add a bump in the graph haha!

Yes, caffeine is a drug so needing chocolate is a drug addiction, same as with fizzy drinks. Sugar and salt are dopamine triggers which again your brain wants and so is an addiction. The trick is not to diet, it's to eat what and when you want, but to work off more than you eat every day. I have an app that I track the calories and exercise so I know where I am. I found an indoor exercise bike will easily shave those calories off and tone your bottom half. But, you also have to work out the top half and build muscle there too. When you do all that, then you lose weight guaranteed.

But where does your gut microbiome come from and what are its determinants? We're still uncovering this but much of it stems from first exposure to the environment at birth. Thus, there's a difference in risk of obesity b/t c-section and vaginal births. Infants exposed to vaginal bacteria via birth canal are greatly influenced by those bacteria in the development of their digestive system, regardless of diet they adopt later on in life. My point being --> the term "environmental" is more nuanced and can still be explained by biological means (e.g., gut microbiome)

The Kings College involved twins so the births were the same

My apologies for missing that detail. I'm still a little hazy on how they reached that conclusion and those percentages. Was there a significant difference in BMI b/t 67.7% of the twins? I'm assuming they analyzed thousands of bacteria-produced metabolites and determined the effects of these molecules but as far as I know, we're still in the beginning phases of uncovering this information, making that conclusion of the study you referenced lackluster. It's just such a new science. Could you forward a link to the study?

Lol, how do you get those numbers? I could eat gras like a cow with a different environment? Everything your body does is "linked" to genetics and environment. A better question perhaps is whether certain alleles are necessary conditions for certain outcomes.

Yes

Eating habits change constantly over the course of ones life. Most people try new foods, go to a brand new restaurant and eat the food there without knowing the calorie amount what so ever, they may eat more some days, and eat less some other days. However Adult body weight fluctuates very little over the course of ones life. Unless the twins ate the exact same food everyday and moved the exact same amount there body weights shouldn’t be so similar

Not significantly more than fraternal twins.

I'm not sure how having cheap calories shoved in your face constantly would count as easier than ever. I think the data shows quite the opposite is true and that you understood very little of this lecture.

Such a lie. I know so many people who are obese and eat only the best quality non processed food.

@@mellie4174 Ah, so your anecdote trumps data on the rise of obesity since the 1980s when the diet guidelines (the food pyramid) was introduced? Do these best quality non processed foods contain grains and vegetable oils by any chance, or are we talking a keto diet?

Watch the video. Obesity isn’t purely genetic, but there is a large genetic influence. The argument that weight isn’t genetic is somewhat like saying height isn’t genetic since North Koreans are shorter than South Koreans.

bruh did u even watch the video? he literally addresses this in like the first 20 minutes 😭

@@mellie4174 its doesn't matter if its 'best quality' food if they eat too much

these people, they will eat each other

That's a very good point. Culture and hype has people chasing after "miracle diets" rather than putting in the hard work on the treadmill.

Yes..exactly, consuming less and moving more, plus breathing more works every time. butt he caloric availabity model is fascinating. So is the microbiome theory.

I think that's less a matter of too little education and more a matter of too much propaganda

Then you didn't hear what he had to say. He was pointing out that it wasn't a case of willpower. It's a case of availability and exposure, in addition to the physiological aspects that govern when some feel no hunger at all, and others feel a little bit hungry all the time. There is more work to be done to explain why more than 75% of those who work hard to lose weight will put on part if not all of that weight again within a few years. You can't make claims that "eating less and moving more" are the be-all and end-all solution, because frankly as a method, it isn't working at all. Obesity numbers are set to soar in the next decade, and if it were that simple, it wouldn't be the problem it is. That was the very point the speaker was trying to make, and here you are, falling back on old tropes. As he pointed out, obese people are not bad people. There is more at work here, and much more that needs to be understood. Well over 50% of the entire Earth's populace is in the obese category and more are added each year as more countries strive to become affluent like the USA. Obesity, like it or not, is a medical condition that is not simple to treat. You gain weight a few ounces at a time and eventually, you hit that obese mark. So what makes you think that the solution is simple, when all of food marketing, and all of the so-called "diet industry" is working against those so afflicted??? If you are trapped in a jail cell with 20 people/friends yelling in at you day in and day out that instead of starving yourself for seven days and walking out of that cell, you could join your friends and enjoy eating that piece of cake, because you can manage another day in prison. What's one more day? Especially when you consider that seven days is a LONG time, and what if your friends go to a restaurant? You won't be able to enjoy yourself at all; confined to rabbit food while they tell you how good their steak was, or how creamy the pie topping is. Misery is a big barrier, and a hard one to overcome, when temptation is readily available for virtually no work at all. Being overweight is the kind of trap that once you get in it, the slopes are greased and you will just slide back in no matter how hard you struggle. Most of the public dislikes obesity, so they also automatically dislike any possible reason that might be contributing to it. That's prejudice (see "pre-judging") and the easy verdict is "they have a choice". Well, so do those who drink alcohol, and later become addicts; so do drug users (I can always stop!) who become addicted; and so too say the smokers. Being addicted to food has a psychological effect for many that can make it every bit as addictive as cigarettes, yet, it's still seen as something you can just quit. You don't quit eating. You don't quit holiday meals with your family, you don't quit going out with friends, or popcorn at a theater, or hot dogs over a campfire. To do so would be more than you might be willing to give up, even at the risk of staying in your prison cell, and enduring the abuse and taunting. Because our eating habits are tangled with our social lives, (take any pictures of your food lately to post online??) there is an emotional component that needs to be addressed before real success can be found.

​@@INUN0TAISHOas some one who does go eating with friends, and does eat my "rabbit food" while they eat thier steak, the fact that you frame it like that tells me it is about will power. They can enjoy the steak and I'll enjoy my salad, we can both enjoy each other's company.

It is not a choice it is a battle against nature, and the difficulty of that battle depends in some part on your genes.

sure all of that..but the choice comes first^^

The choice to go on a weight loss diet? Sure, but almost all obese have made that choice multiple times. The success of the diet has little to do with the fact that they made the choice to try to lose weight in the first place.

Fried pig skin blobs with extra flavouring and salt . A seriously unhealthy food due to the high salt content. 544 calories per 100g and no vitamins or minerals. Very popular in the UK

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON ummm yes genes do determine adulthood size and weight so eat healthy as an adult at least!

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON yes genes do affect adult weight and size;yes it does

Er, so that's called eugenics. Quite controversial 😄

GENETICS

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON still influenced by genes.Genetic therapy needs to be done in order to destroy this disease

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON there’s sugar in virtually everything you eat;a lot of people cut sugar and carbs and still can’t lose weight!

Not true, I exclusively eat women and children and I'm a dude.

Maybe you have the gene for a learning disability? At no point to he ever give all obese individuals a pass for their behavior. He simply tries to explain why one person may be more likely to be obese genetically. What causes this and how those genes manifest behavior. The part that really hit for me I don't think he intended at all what his checkout line bit about the large nurse looking at all the sweets and almost making out without the extra calories while he had no issues as his temptations weren't on the shelf. what if the chocolates where always somewhere else and "pork scratchings" or your guilty pleasure in all its variety happened to be the thing displayed at checkout. Would the same people be the ones struggling the hardest? Clearly our environment has been a huge change in this obesity trend and he acknowledged this. Maybe we should do something about this first while still continuing genetic research since it seems such a simple fix. Or we could go on like you pretending nothing has changed and some people just happen to be weak willed and their just happens to be alot more of these people now. Idiot.