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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
Having a thyroid problem changes how much one has to do in order to burn the same 500 calorie difference though. If one person with a normal thyroid can burn that off walking around the block, someone with an underactive thyroid would have to run around the block 100 times for the same amount of metabolic activity. Seems like a pretty big difference to me  |
Not only that, but thyroid problems don't announce themselves! It's not like people who develop them or end up with them wake up one morning saying "Hmm, my thyroid feels funny" ...many times it goes undiagnosed.
I don't think anybody is arguing the "high percentage" of people who -can- do something about it and don't, but what we are arguing here is the idea that that's "all there is" and that there are no other contributing factors to obesity in some people.