It’d be nice to have a standard collection of reading. What came to mind offhand on the specific topic of metabolism slowdown / fat cell energy vampirism is this:
Although when I actually talk to others who are trying to lose weight, a very common comment is, “I’m eating much less on but my weight isn’t going down at all!” Which is worse than what this article reports on—everyone who stayed in the study lost weight on 550 calories/day, but “Some people dropped out of the study” which you would kinda expect if those were the obese people whose fat cells weren’t releasing fat at all.
It’d be nice to have a standard collection of reading. What came to mind offhand on the specific topic of metabolism slowdown / fat cell energy vampirism is this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?pagewanted=all
Although when I actually talk to others who are trying to lose weight, a very common comment is, “I’m eating much less on but my weight isn’t going down at all!” Which is worse than what this article reports on—everyone who stayed in the study lost weight on 550 calories/day, but “Some people dropped out of the study” which you would kinda expect if those were the obese people whose fat cells weren’t releasing fat at all.
I’ve posted some exerpts from another possibly relevant article here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/hpz/open_thread_june_1630_2013/96na