I'd like to understand why, this doesn't sound obvious to me? Unhealthy overweight people, I can picture it, but otherwise? An athlete at 240 lbs might not see any benefit whatsoever for instance. In other cases I can also picture people gaining weight feeling much better under the right circumstances.
All in one weight in itself doesn't mean much in isolation. That's why you have people with a high BMI that are healthier than people with a "normal" one.
I suspect its because health is complicated, but eating less calories correlates with many more healthy outcomes.
>An athlete at 240 lbs
As a contrived example, somebody this big (athlete or not), is probably at an increased risk of sleep apnea. I know of some competitive athletes (with visible abs, no less) that were surprised to learn they have sleep apnea. After a CPAP they felt better. Alternatively, they could probably have lost weight (but no longer be as competitive in their chosen sport.) Some of the risk factors (gender, neck circumference) aren't the typical proxies we use to subjectively assess health as a layperson.
>That's why you have people with a high BMI that are healthier than people with a "normal" one.
This can be true, but it is not generalizable. Last I heard, something like 1% of people with a high BMI would fall into this camp.
I meant overweight/unhealthy people losing weight would feel better. Totally agree that a heavier athlete wouldn't necessarily feel better with weight loss.
Weight is strongly correlated to risk of cancer, heart disease, etc. and BMI strongly correlates to body-fat percentage. If you are a gym-rat outlier then congrats but that doesn't make BMI useless.
I don't know but losing weight and feeling much more agile it just improves your life altogether, waking up is easier, moving around is easier, everything in general just feels "better" plus your mind feels more focused.
Mechanical advantage and impact. Weight is not just a constant force in our joints, and it's not applied evenly. As an example, imagine holding forty pounds at arms length vs wearing it in a backpack or letting it dangle to the floor. The forces on the shoulders from all three are radically different.
Additionally, when you walk or run you don't place only and exactly the force of the weight of your body down. Each foot is loaded with an impact and the forces are distributed up the leg. What your knee experiences is a dynamic and spiky load.
. . . "A weight reduction of 9.8 N (1 kg) was associated with reductions of 40.6 N and 38.7 N in compressive and resultant forces, respectively." . . .
. . . "Our results indicate that each pound of weight lost will result in a 4-fold reduction in the load exerted on the knee per step during daily activities. Accumulated over thousands of steps per day, a reduction of this magnitude would appear to be clinically meaningful. " . . .
Remember that pounds is a unit of force - not mass.
There's the set of "tech neck" images (example https://www.vital-balance.com/en/tech-neck/ though many more can be found) where it shows what the force on the neck is from the head. At 0°, it's 10-12 lbs of force down. If you've got your head tilted at 45° looking at a phone, the infographic says that its 49 lbs of force on the neck.
I'd like to add that while you are right for engineering, for certain analytics roles communication would be the decisive factor I'd consider (granted of course the candidate knows how to use SQL and got decent scripting skills). The reason is most of our job as analytics engineers is communication and translating stakeholders business problems.
To clarify a bit, cause it matters. This is more of a listening skill, and then an analytical skill. Mind you listening is half (or more?) of good comms. But evaluating listening is 10x more difficult than speaking or writing. The latter two are not a proxy for the former.
I just started on the same medication after seeing a psychiatrist. We are experimenting on dosage. However it's frustrating, first month on 18 mg was almost better than the 27 mg I take right now, even though 18 mg in the end did nothing anymore. How did you find your optimal dosage?
My partner reports massive improvements (no fidgetting, calmness, less impulsive) but I still feel .... the same and sometimes worse when it comes to fatigue and work, even though I sleep well.
Good to note it's not impossible to be in a calorie deficit and not lose weight. Lipedema for instance makes it impossible to lose fat on the legs and arms. Hard to get a diagnostic for it too. Other than that your comment is right, you can also not lose weight when doing IF, it's all about calories in calories out.
FWIW and for others reading this. If you experience reflux regularly, go get checked. I had an undiagnosed H Pilory infection for years (can lead to cancer). 2 weeks of antibiotics fixed it.
yes. I had to heal my gut and kimchi and sauerkraut plus the occasional Kefir are great. I also take from time to time zinc L-carnosine and L-glutamine, great for the gut as well.
On the other hand, we have seen how perverse incentive amongst experts work too. Academia is rife with fraud (e.g. publishing 500 paper a year), because certain incentives make it possible. I agree expert are important and should be judged by peers, but incentives around budget allocation and prestige should not be attached to performance, especially in science. However I understand it's a complex topic so I probably miss a lot of information, just my 2 c.
This is amazing. Thanks. This also highlights how powerful mind maps / diagrams are when learning cloud products (or other concepts). I used them a lot when studying for my AWS certs and it's amazing how better my mind started understanding interlinked services when presented in a map vs a series of pages, even though I was writing extensive notes. Ofc, YMMV we all learn differently.
I feel like the title is a bit clickbaity. This post is more of a rant against poor management than actual data work per se. That being said it's true that unlike other roles such as developers, artists, copywriters, etc. that still can produce tangible elements of the product under poor leadership, data will be the first victim of poor management and will have a higher probability of not producing anything at all.
Data buy-in within a company is absolutely essential for it to work.
FWIW I've found a lot of value in learning Typescript this year and interacting with the AWS CDK to build infrastructure as code. Upskilling my AWS knowledge also massively paid off, especially networking which I never truly understood before.
All in one weight in itself doesn't mean much in isolation. That's why you have people with a high BMI that are healthier than people with a "normal" one.