The only animals fighting obesity are humans and their pets.

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When a parrot gets obese eating processed food, they don't say "eat less, move more". They don't say "count calories". They don't say "a calorie is a calorie". They don't say "It's your fault. You are greedy and lazy". No, they take away the junk food, put the parrot back on its ancestral diet and voila, the weight falls off and the parrot naturally starts to move more.

Why do they think this only applies to parrots?

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Because parrots generally don't sit on their backsides in offices all day, but when they are stuck in a cage, sorry, but their ancestral diet won't help them much if they aren't getting exercise. The reason this is said to humans and their pets is because humans and their pets lead very different lives to their wild counterparts. I do find these comparisons with other species miss the point rather a lot. Yes, we do need to eat less and move more. We are eating more and moving less because our lifestyles have changed in an incredibly short period of time from the days when nobody had to tell us that because by necessity, we did. Animals in the wild don't have cars and supermarkets. To eat, they have to move.

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I've done what I would call fairly extreme physical work in my life for many hours a day, and whilst I was doing that then the "move more" argument did work, i.e. when lambing (usually about 10 weeks) I was on the go for 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, up and down, lifting, grappling. I got very fit every year, and lost weight etc. BUT....the amount of effort it took was way beyond what anyone would really want or could continue doing. When I went back to my normal only 12 hour day, even though it was still pretty physical, I would put weight back on again, and amazingly quickly.

For me it's only the change in eating low carb that has worked. Been doing it years now and it's never changed, weight, dimensions just stay the same, good BMI/fat ratio, fit etc. As I said, I could do that before but only with extreme work which I couldn't possibly keep up.