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    #62
    duffyshuffle
    Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭duffyshuffle


    i_surge wrote: »
    I agree with everything you're saying.

    For the sake of correctness though we can't have quacks disputing simple thermodynamics for a few blog hits. If you eat too much food every day you'll get fatter - no matter what that food is. FACT.

    But if the law is how we work, do you think if I ate exactly 3,500kcals extra a week that this day next year I'll weigh exactly 52 pounds heavier? Either the law works or it doesn't if it's simple physics?

    Eating better food is key and I know you've said that, and I agree that some people will eat excess 'good' food still expecting weight loss which might not follow, and I think that if purely weight loss is the goal, then calorie reduction will work in most cases. But then it will generally lead to a bigger swing in the other direction after this 'loss'. ( I thought The Calorie Myth was a good book explaining how peoples set points for basal metabolic needs gets screwed up by going aggressively low kcal).

    Cereal killers movie was a good watch I thought, the main guy eats 4,000kcals a day and does very short intense workouts and doesn't gain weight over a month, whilst improving bio markers.


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    #63
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    i_surge wrote: »
    Two identical twins:

    Twin A eats a typical western diet and is a healthy weight.

    Twin B eats the exact same meals but double the portion size.

    Who weighs more?

    Twin B because the of doubling of the refined carbohydrate intake.


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    #64
    markens2
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭markens2


    I'm more confused than I was in the beginning but I've to be up in 5 hours to cycle to Galway. Onwards and upwards.


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    #65
    DaithiMC
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭DaithiMC


    i_surge wrote: »
    I agree with everything you're saying.

    For the sake of correctness though we can't have quacks disputing simple thermodynamics for a few blog hits. If you eat too much food every day you'll get fatter - no matter what that food is. FACT.

    Not understanding how thermodynamics applies to non-ideal complex biological systems and stating "facts" based on that lack of understanding can be just as damaging as quackery.


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