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| fun, low fat food, prevails, ketogenic diet, radio stations, nutrition, lose belly fat, fat joke, fat tuesday, journalism, penguin group (usa) books, fat black booty, hudson street press, psychology, satellite sisters, book_review, drink, fat lady, body fat, fats domino, happiness:, | A correlation has to exist. 2. The independent humor variable has to procede the dependent variable in time. IE, the cause procedes the effect. 3. No other viable explanation for the relationship can be made. Assertions that being fat puts one at risk for certain diseases can be disputed on points 2 & 3: Point 2 because no one really can say when the onset of diseases humor occurs. Take diabetes, for example, so perhaps the diabetes has the symptom of weight gain, which would make diabetes a cause of being fat (or humor at least a contributing factor). Point 3 because there are several possible alternative explanations. If we are talking lifestyle, the correlation between fatness and some diseases may be spurious relationship from both being related to lack of activity (I'm not saying fat people are inactive, I'm saying that fat people frequently have to cope with a hostile world that limits their ability to exercise and their access to health care). |
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| I do not mean to suggest that the "evidence" is journalism "indisputable," only to take issue with Campos' assertion that it "when you actually go journalism look at the medical literature," it [a correlation between weight and health] doesn't exist. The evidence regarding obesity is absolutely disputable. Medicine, or any discipline that claims to operate with scientific rigor, should use existing evidence and be ready to discard it journalism when better evidence becomes available. In the current medical literature, being fat is a risk factor for diabetes just as, in the current literature, being black is a risk factor for sickle cell anemia. Apologies for the previous or continuing offense. I'll read the book. Mea culpa. Posted by ke15ey on April 29, 2004 08:34 AM. I do not believe that Campos's argument is that no correlation exists between being fat and certain diseases. But a correlation is not a cause. In order to asset a cause and effect relationship, three requirements have to be met: 1. |
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