Smoking vs Weight Loss | Salty Talk 025 | THRR
The Healthy Rebellion Radio
Robb Wolf
4.7 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Salty Talk is a special edition of Healthy Rebellion Radio. Each week on Salty Talk Robb will do a deep dive into current health and performance news, mixed with an occasional Salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, performance, health, and longevity.
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SHOW NOTES:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5636087/
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/82/1/222S/4863393
This Salty Talk had two main inspirations: When we posted an image on IG saying "Make your health an act of rebellion" we were taken to task as being "ableist." Right around this time a new member here mentioned that in her RD program, the professors suggested it is generally not recommended to talk to people about weight loss as "most people do not succeed and it just makes them feel bad about themselves."
I've noodled on this a lot and a few things struck me: A doctor would NEVER take the position that folks should not try to stop smoking. It's bad for them, society etc, has low success, but yet, still, we try. We MUST try.
Why not with weight loss?
There is an interesting double standard emerging here, one that (IMO) is an outgrowth of what we might call "woke" culture. I suspect some of this positioning started from a place or compassion and concern...it's NOT ok to run people down about their weight (political affiliation is apparently open season!) but this is presented as if there is no cost associated with doing nothing for health regarding weight. If someone is on fire, do we not say or do something as it may hurt their feelings?
How about infectious disease? We can dictate all manner of behavior change, really do some epic virtue signaling around that, all in the pursuit of "saving lives" and "not overwhelming the medical system." Close to a half million Americans die every year from obesity related problems. And do you know why our medical system is ALWAYS tettering on the brink (and has been well before COVID)? It's due to largely preventable, obesity related issues. AND smoking.
I'm not sure what the perfect answer is to all this, likely looking for readiness for change is an important way to triage and allocate resources. Folks who are ready to change are relatively easy to help. But if there is no will, there is literally, no way. All that said, doing this ridiculous mental gymnastics of suggesting there are no reasonable bounds for an average human to live, is not just mean, it is homicidal. If a planet cannot be "healthy at any temperature" then a human cannot be "healthy at any size."
How ethical is it to know there is something that can be done to help a person, yet we make platitudes to make this information and motivation unavailable?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Healthy Rebellion Radio. |
| 0:08.9 | This is an episode of Salty Talk, a deep dive into popular and relevant health and performance news pieces |
| 0:15.1 | mixed with the occasional salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, |
| 0:19.9 | performance, health, and longevity. |
| 0:23.1 | Healthy Rebellion Radio's salty talk episodes are brought to you by Drink Element, |
| 0:26.9 | the only electrolyte drink mix that's salty enough to make a difference in how you look, feel, |
| 0:31.1 | and perform. We co-founded this company to fill a void in the hydration space. |
| 0:35.3 | We needed an electrolyte drink that actually met the sodium needs of active people, low-carb, keto, and carnivore adherence without any of the sugar, colors, and fillers found in popular commercial products. Health rebels, this is salty talk. And now the thing our attorney advises. The contents of this show are for entertainment and educational purposes only. |
| 0:56.5 | Nothing in this podcast should be considered medical advice. |
| 0:58.9 | Please consult your licensed and credentialed functional medicine practitioner before embarking on any health, dietary, or fitness change. |
| 1:06.4 | And given that this is salty talk, you should expect the occasional expletive. |
| 1:13.6 | Top of the morning, wife. |
| 1:15.6 | Top of the morning. |
| 1:16.6 | Top of the morning to all you rebels. |
| 1:18.6 | I hope you all doing well. |
| 1:20.6 | We're just chuckling because Rob was commenting on my geriatric hard drive. |
| 1:26.6 | I am guilty. I'm one of those people that have commenting on my geriatric hard drive. |
| 1:30.3 | I am guilty. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm one of those people that has probably 50 tabs open and lots of stuff. |
| 1:41.0 | I have a very messy computer and it makes him crazy. |
| 1:43.8 | It causes me anxiety. I'm not the most clean, organized person, but Nikki could... |
| 1:51.6 | She could be in like a Pentagon-sized file system. |
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