[qart]

> Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007

When an article starts like this, I instantly close it and wait for proper sources. Anyway, the phrase "metabolic syndrome" has been gaining currency for the last few years. For those who don't want to read journal papers and meta-analyses, there are plenty of doctors and fitness coaches (on YouTube) who have made videos on how to get metabolic syndrome under control or even reverse it. And many of the doctors do a good job of filtering and summarizing the research.

[epcoa]

The term Metabolic Syndrome X has been around for more than a few years, unless nearly 40 is few (and I absolutely relate to that sentiment), just saying that concept was revved up in the 90s and of course has been an academic discussion going back to the early 20th century.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.atv.0000111245.75...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3056758/

[vablings]

Alongside all of these honest doctors and fitness coaches who espouse metabolic syndrome as the biggest health crisis of the 21st century there is a broad group of scammers and conmen who use the well backed science and literature to seed ground to push supplements and other crap. They seem to wrap the very basic medical truth of being overweight and inactive is horrific for your health in an onion of pseudoscience bullshit, so you buy the next best product high in "antioxidants" and "polyphenols"

The actual science is unimaginably boring. Do not be overweight on the BMI scale and do some moderate exercise for around 2 hours every week. This will drastically improve the health 1000x more than say the insane stuff that Brian Johnson is touting.

I hate modern fitness influencers and health wellness people in general. My head near about exploded when I saw a Tiktok from Jeff Nippard claiming that eggs increase your testosterone on a study with a sample size of FIVE PEOPLE.

[tsimionescu]

> The actual science is unimaginably boring. Do not be overweight on the BMI scale and do some moderate exercise for around 2 hours every week.

Don't be depressed is also excellent advice for people with depression: if they can manage that, it improves their mood tremendously. Not catching colds also greatly reduces your chances of cold-like symptoms.

By which I mean, what you're saying is a truism, not medical advice. Keeping your BMI under control is a natural no-effort thing for some people, and a grueling lifelong struggle for others. Telling fat people to stop being fat is not "advice", it is exactly as helpful as telling sick people to stop being sick.

[jeffbee]

> When an article starts like this, I instantly close it

Why? You don't believe in car crashes or what?

[gnatman]

I think they probably mean “article that’s meant to share research but mostly shares anecdotes”. It’s a common framing for this kind of thing though, so they probably have to close a lot of articles after the first sentence.

[nh23423fefe]

Someone who wants to tell you something true doesn't lead their communication with emotional distraction. Kinda like how someone who is asking a real question doesn't disguise the question as an insult.

[pas]

It's extremely lazy "writing".

Seems absolutely unnecessary, forced, immeasurably trite, off-puttingly boring, overused, so brazenly cliché that there has to be some kind of counter-intuitive selection going on, like with the email scammers that target those who are not immediately noticing the fraudulent intent.

... or simply our arrogance is showing, after all average minds discuss people, right?

[barfoure]

You’ve got more patience than me. I read the title and decided I won’t bother reading the rest.

[jeffbee]

And then bragged about this.