Good Reads: The "Starvation Mode" Myth

I'm going to start saving links to good stuff I want to refer back to. Tag is "good reads".

Fatty Fights Back: MTYHBUSTERS: Starvation Mode

When starvation studies have been done on the obese, they find that the impact of the starvation diet is much less. Our bodies have fat stores designed to get us through a famine (i.e., a diet) and when we have a famine (i.e., a diet), those fat stores get used. The drastic slowdown of the metabolism doesn't happen until those fat stores are largely gone -- which takes a lot longer for the obese than for those who only have to lose 10-25 pounds.