tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4893234962600967689.post6728891753862218561..comments2023-09-02T06:44:22.702-07:00Comments on Wildly Fluctuating: Preconceptions . . . AgainGretchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019921800841883073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4893234962600967689.post-48130018666689482482010-12-04T15:26:27.037-08:002010-12-04T15:26:27.037-08:00Thanks, Beth. I don't listen to lectures becau...Thanks, Beth. I don't listen to lectures because they take too long. If you know somewhere that this lecture is written, I'd read it.<br /><br />I don't quite understand what Taubes would mean if he said that the child in that picture was not underfed! He's clearly starving. The photo was taken during a famine.Gretchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17019921800841883073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4893234962600967689.post-6194887653561550972010-12-03T16:44:38.240-08:002010-12-03T16:44:38.240-08:00This reminds me of something Gary Taubes points ou...This reminds me of something Gary Taubes points out around 16:00 in his grand rounds lecture here: http://www.dhslides.org/mgr/mgr060509f/f.htm (yes, I know the timestamp ... I did a summary of his talk on my blog!).<br /><br />I'm paraphrasing, but Taubes doesn't see this as underfed child and overfed older woman. He doesn't go into detail, but I think the idea is that if you try to fit this data into a preconceived notion (in his case, it's the calorie balance equation), you risk missing the true explanation for the phenomenon.Beth@WeightMavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03821749502002515139noreply@blogger.com