Differentiate Between Time And Mechanistic Cause for Fitness

Or weight loss, fat loss, health, and more.

There was this response you seldom hear any more, “what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?”

People see unrelated changes which happen over the course of time and falsely attribute causation. The price of tea in China also went up EXACTLY linearly with the same change-over-time outcomes you’re attempting to connect. Why not just say the price of tea in China caused this thing?

Don’t just show me statistical change over time. Propose a known, understood, and believable mechanism.

Careful on the “cholesterol CAUSES heart disease” and other seemingly sensible proposals. Just because someone developed heart disease and had a trend up in cholesterol doesn’t mean the latter caused the former. The price of tea in China also went up.

No falsifiable, repeatedly testable, verifiable mechanisms?

​Then might as well blame it on the price of tea in China.