This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! I have had several readers ask about the Lark program. In each case, it was being actively marketed to them, without their consent, by their insurance company and/or employer.
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")
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")
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!