Back to episode — Episode 2271 Scott Adams - CWSA 10/24/23
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It's backward science. There's a new study that found that people who have the most sex have the lowest all-cause mortality, especially in hypertension patients. Yeah, so generally speaking the people who had the most sex were also the healthiest. So backward science. I wonder how much sex people who look really sick have. Do they have a lot of sex, or is it possible that the people who are health…
← Previous segment →of science that somebody paid a lot of money to do a study, but it would have been easier just to ask me my opinion because you would have got the same answer. Let me give you an example. A study says that 14% of adults and 12% of children show signs of addiction to ultra-processed foods, which are high in sugar and carbs, and this addiction can be as strong as alcohol and tobacco. And it's all about refined carbs and added fats and blah blah blah to make it addictive.
Now, did they need to study that? Was there somebody who was unaware that some people have a lot of trouble avoiding certain foods? Was that something that science needed to really dig into? I wonder if there's some people who really, really like sweets. They like them so much that they'll weigh 300 pounds rather than cut down on their sweets. Is it because they're addictive, or they just like being 300 pounds and eating sweets? Did anybody need to study that? I mean, really.
But it gives me an opportunity to remind you of the best way to lose weight. This is the Scott Adams patented way. And I realized after I read this study that there was a better way to explain it than I've been doing so far. And it goes like this. The reason people weigh too
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much, in their own opinion, people who want to lose weight, they think of it as willpower and calories. Would you agree? If you're trying to diet, the average person says it's just the number of calories, it's just my willpower. I can ramp up my wi
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