[nickcarraway]

[ConservativeInPA]

Stating the obvious for most thin people.

[BipolarBob]

I don't always follow medical studies but when I do, I follow Chinese medical studies.

[Chickensoup]

The money quote

They also had higher-than-expected resting metabolic rates with an elevated resting energy expenditure and thyroid activity, the scientists said.

[alternatives?]

You can’t exercise enough to eat all you want.

[ought-six]

Well, one needs calories to exercise or perform physical work; so, no calories, no exercise or work. No calories means starvation and ultimate death.

[Caipirabob]

This all went downhill when God created Tacos.

[ontap]

Lose wait by eating less and exercising....hell anybody can do it that way!!!! My way is to eat lots of carbs and lay around all day!!!!

[libertylover]

I think urban people tend to be thinner because they are forced to walk more - a lot more. It maybe 2-3 blocks to the bus stop, and even farther to a subway station. And when you get off the subway, it may still be several more blocks to where you want to go. That’s my experience in big cities.

In the suburbs or county, we tend to DRIVE up to the place we want to go and then just walk right in from the parking lot.

[daniel1212]

"Researchers say they have debunked the urban myth that healthy underweight people “eat whatever they want and burn it off with exercise”. A study of healthy Chinese adults considered underweight, according to the widely used Body Mass Index (BMI), found they not only do not eat as much food as people with a “normal” BMI, they are also less physically active...“We can reject the hypothesis that healthy underweight adults derive their leanness from high levels of physical activity.” "

Claiming that healthy underfed underweight people are necessarily less physically active is as non-nonsensical as holding that all healthy underweight people eat whatever they want and burn it off with exercise, which false premise is what the researchers can only imagine they are refuting.

[Bigbrown]

I had a Chinese lady that worked in the shop I used to go to in Shanghai ask me Do you know why Chinese women are better than American women? Because we work harder and eat less!”

[SimpleJack]

[Jeff Chandler]