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This is a reply to Stephans' latest video "The Obamacare Extension - Government Without Painkillers". It is not replying to the video in general, but Stephans' comments on Obesity. My first note is that correlation does not imply causation. I'll start you off watching this Ted talk by Dr. Peter Attia. For your information Dr. Attia is on a ketogenic diet, (High fat, adequate protein, low carbohydrate). http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes.html If you are to lazy to spend 15 minutes watching the video and still comment negatively on this post you can go fuck yourself. So in general my research seems to point to the fact that our obesity epidemic and all of it's corresponding diseases seem to be related to diet. The question is whether obesity is a symptom rather than a cause of the epidemic of diseases. It seems to me that most of the problems stem from the change to our diet in the 70's when the government started to promote a diet of low fat, high carbohydrate and trying to avoid all saturated fats. I recall in my childhood when this first came out that my mother automatically got rid of the butter and switched over to margarine, reduced the eggs and bacon, and cut way back on saturated fat. Today in her 80's she is still eating margarine, is on Anti-Statin drugs and in turn has dementia, (yes correlation does not imply causation). If you wish to watch some videos on the topic here is a series on fat. This is just a start and may be biased since they do sell books but an interesting series of video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEWc5fL04o0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-meOl6vyLHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPmJHEEw4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIEDYbGJsmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E0pFl370Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5wquzbtAY I have a lot more to discuss about this topic but will cut it short to not overload anyone. Some of the proposed discussions are: High fat/Low carbohydrate vs. Low fat/High carbohydrate diets Canadian and American food guilds, (I believe the cause of the obesity/disease crisis. Hydrogenated oils Palio vs. Vegan/vegetarian diets. Bacon Will spam be discovered as the ultimate health food. My diet choices and weight loss/health over the last 6 months. Bio-hacking etc. It should be noted that the Palio group tend to be very libertarian so feel that this is a great discussion topic for this forum. I hope that you will spend some time doing some research on this top and most of all watch Dr. Attia's video. After watching it it changed my attitude when seeing an obese person from total disgust to one of sympathy and empathy. Thanks, Henry