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Emotional Eating Is Oversimplified
- Emotional eating is a common explanation for fatness but often functions as pity, not understanding.
- Aubrey Gordon argues it reduces people to damaged beings and oversimplifies diverse causes of body size.
Origin Story Of The ACE Study
- Vincent Felitti ran a weight-loss clinic with extreme calorie restriction and saw rapid regain.
- His encounter with a patient who disclosed childhood sexual abuse prompted the ACE study genesis.
Trauma Link Is Not A Universal Explanation
- The ACE study's origin linked trauma with failed weight loss but the data is weak for generalizing trauma as the cause of fatness.
- Gordon warns this narrative can be used to justify pity and avoid broader responsibility.