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  • Bongles@lemmy.ziptoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldkids these days
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    21 days ago

    That does bug me a bit. I know, it’s a game meant to be accessible for children… BUT, the starters don’t have their type moves in the beginning (or at least they didn’t) so it didn’t matter. The first battle was a scratch vs tackle type battle then you had the opportunity to catch something they’re weak to before the next one.

    Pokémon now, even worse than back in the day, is a game where you can use only your starter and just over level them and beat the game easily. But… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯





  • Maybe my sources aren’t great, I use kagi nowadays over Google and they have an academic filter (like Google scholar). That’s all I used to find the few things I linked.

    It’s well established that your fat cell count is relatively stable as an adult and that as you gain significant weight that your body creates more fat cells to store this energy. It’s known that the number of cells stay relatively stable even after losing weight, they just shrink. It’s also known that leptin, or lack there of, affects your hunger. These things specifically are well documented. Other points of what I shared, and the overall impact may be, still hypothetical.

    I’m not going to keep looking for and reading articles because I’m not finding what you’re looking for and that’s all good. I don’t want to act like I’m an expert, I’m just a nerd reading things on the internet.

    That’s not to say, though, that this fat cell count is the end all be all and it’s impossible to lose weight because you’ve already gained too much — your own situation is proof of that. It’s just added context, not a barrier. Highly satiating foods like what you’ve mentioned, grapes over ice cream, eggs oats and yogurt over donuts, these make a much bigger impact on your overall hunger. I feel it too, I’m overweight and working on losing it, and if i snack on something like chips, it almost feels like it does nothing for me. That’s why all the weight loss advice mentions high protein and High fiber foods.



  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/

    In adults, fat cell number is constant over time in spite of a large turnover (about 10% of the fat cells per year) when body weight is stable. A decrease in body weight only changes fat cell size (becoming smaller), whereas an increase in body weight causes elevation of both fat cell size and number in adults.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4371661/

    This one’s not as easy for me to quote.

    Basically the gist of the whole idea is that your body maintains the level of fat cells pretty steadily as an adult. When you gain or lose weight the cells just grow or shrink, but they can only grow so big before you need new cells to store more energy and your body will build them. Each of the fat cells have a part to play in signaling that you’re in a deficit and need to consume more calories (when we didn’t have such calorie dense foods readily available this was probably correct most of the time). So, if you have 2 or 3 times the number of fat cells then you “should” that’s increasing the signaling you receive to eat, making it harder not to (simplifying that a lot). In normal maintenance, your body still maintains that turnover pretty steadily so it generally doesn’t go away.