You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds
You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds
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You can't outrun physics: calories in, calories out. The universe doesn't care about your genetics, doesn't care about your physical or mental health issues - it obeys the law of the land. If you burn more than you consume, you lose weight. If you consume more than you burn, you gain weight.
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It is more complex than that. You cannot help people to lose weight by putting them on "cold turkey" - by withholding food from them forcibly. It will just make the patient quit the treatment.
So, to sum it up: Is it "calories in = calories out"? Yes. Is it a cruel way to see things? Also yes.
Does it help patients to effectively lose weight? Surprisingly, no; despite it being a dead simple rule.
What actually does help the people lose weight is to build alternative routines; i.e. those that make the people adapt healthy behavior that displaces unhealthy behavior. Teaching how to eat well does more than teaching to not eat high-calory food. Teaching how to prepare a salad that actually tastes well does more than withholding chocolate.
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Are you a bomb calorimeter? A calorie is a unit of heat energy, how are you eating it? From the article itself:
"For decades we've been telling Americans that you're lazy, it's your fault, you're not moving enough, you're eating too much," Mozaffarian says. "And I think what this study shows is that there's really complicated biology happening and that our food is driving this."
It's not simple, nor is it straightforward. Our bodies are complex.
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Well, I'll die with a jar of Tostitos Queso on the table and can of beer from one of my 2 favorite breweries. Smile on my face.