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I'm always wary of anything that says it clinically or scientifically "proves" something. That's not a science term. Mathematicians prove things. Scientists do not.
I checked LIKE, but i really want to check DISLIKE cuz this is horrifying!!
What can we do? Anything?? Write to the CDC and say how does it prevent diabetes when it doesn't even measure blood sugar in the tiny percentage of people who did the program?? It's just so infuriating!!!
The CDC is just thoroughly corrupt from top to bottom at this point. If anything comes out of the CDC, I tend to believe its crap until proven otherwise. What amazes me is how most people know this,but will believe them when they like what the CDC is saying and feel it is justification to continue whatever they already want to do. (Such as bully fat people and try to coerce them into weight loss for "their own good")
My health insurance just started hounding me the other day about this and yours is the only actual article I can find outside of Lark's own propaganda or their propaganda as reposted by health insurance companies or local public health organizations. What bothers me even more is that insurance isn't telling customers what it is; they're wrapping it up as a "well-being coach" and only letting you know it's Lark once you're deep in the app and already curious enough about it to do some clicking as if you're planning to sign up. I just want to know who is getting the kickbacks (because there must be kickbacks or why would health insurance, with its notorious business plan of "pay the CEOs and never ever give customers anything resembling care or health," actively encourage me to do something with no out of pocket cost to me?) and what criteria they're using to determine who on their plans gets these messages, because my lab work is excellent and my slim coworkers say they haven't gotten these, which means I can actually answer my own question, and the criteria must be BMI instead of anything at all that might suggest a health or well-being problem or concern.
It's baffling to me how they stay locked in on weight when losing such a tiny amount of weight is "associated with health improvements."
Imagine if it were cholesterol. Someone created a program to try to lower cholesterol, and at the end of the program they found that the cholesterol was only lowered by a point or two when it was lowered at all, but that health was overall improved. Wouldn't you, at that point, start to suspect that something else was going on? That maybe cholesterol wasn't the culprit, or at least was less of a culprit than you first imagined? 10 pounds could easily be a large meal and water weight (oh, how I wish they'd at least measure body composition in these studies--shouldn't it be important to know what's being lost?). It's implausible that losing so little could create changes in health. It doesn't make any sense.
I participated long enough to get my free fitbit, which I genuinely enjoy because I like to track my physical activity. I will say the AI is incredibly repetitive and annoying.
I'm always wary of anything that says it clinically or scientifically "proves" something. That's not a science term. Mathematicians prove things. Scientists do not.
I checked LIKE, but i really want to check DISLIKE cuz this is horrifying!!
What can we do? Anything?? Write to the CDC and say how does it prevent diabetes when it doesn't even measure blood sugar in the tiny percentage of people who did the program?? It's just so infuriating!!!
The CDC is just thoroughly corrupt from top to bottom at this point. If anything comes out of the CDC, I tend to believe its crap until proven otherwise. What amazes me is how most people know this,but will believe them when they like what the CDC is saying and feel it is justification to continue whatever they already want to do. (Such as bully fat people and try to coerce them into weight loss for "their own good")
My health insurance just started hounding me the other day about this and yours is the only actual article I can find outside of Lark's own propaganda or their propaganda as reposted by health insurance companies or local public health organizations. What bothers me even more is that insurance isn't telling customers what it is; they're wrapping it up as a "well-being coach" and only letting you know it's Lark once you're deep in the app and already curious enough about it to do some clicking as if you're planning to sign up. I just want to know who is getting the kickbacks (because there must be kickbacks or why would health insurance, with its notorious business plan of "pay the CEOs and never ever give customers anything resembling care or health," actively encourage me to do something with no out of pocket cost to me?) and what criteria they're using to determine who on their plans gets these messages, because my lab work is excellent and my slim coworkers say they haven't gotten these, which means I can actually answer my own question, and the criteria must be BMI instead of anything at all that might suggest a health or well-being problem or concern.
It's baffling to me how they stay locked in on weight when losing such a tiny amount of weight is "associated with health improvements."
Imagine if it were cholesterol. Someone created a program to try to lower cholesterol, and at the end of the program they found that the cholesterol was only lowered by a point or two when it was lowered at all, but that health was overall improved. Wouldn't you, at that point, start to suspect that something else was going on? That maybe cholesterol wasn't the culprit, or at least was less of a culprit than you first imagined? 10 pounds could easily be a large meal and water weight (oh, how I wish they'd at least measure body composition in these studies--shouldn't it be important to know what's being lost?). It's implausible that losing so little could create changes in health. It doesn't make any sense.
I participated long enough to get my free fitbit, which I genuinely enjoy because I like to track my physical activity. I will say the AI is incredibly repetitive and annoying.
Dang. Fuck Lark (and the CDC!). Thanks for a great analysis!