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> You can't claim that understanding how metabolism works is useful and suggest that understanding how CICO works isn't useful in the same breadth. I believe y
by grzm 9y ago
> You can't claim that understanding how metabolism works is useful and suggest that understanding how CICO works isn't useful in the same breadth.
I believe you're misreading what I'm saying: I'm saying that only repeating CICO is not helpful. That itself does not give people the tools they need to be able to maintain health. You yourself point this out in saying it's "sufficient to derive all useful, actionable advice for healthy weight management": Not everyone is able to derive things from first principles.
Perhaps we're talking past each other. I'm more satisfied understanding human behavior and metabolism regulation than only repeating CICO and expecting people to derive everything else from there.
- sn9 9y agoYou might be right. I think we agree more than we disagree. I'm certainly not against giving more advice than CICO and I'm not saying we should expect people to derive things from first principles, just that any method of weight loss that works will be working by CICO and understanding that is far more useful than not, and that it is outright harmful for people to suggest that it doesn't work. I actually wrote a rather long comment a few months ago about my thoughts for healthy living in general if you wanted to know my thoughts beyond CICO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14681035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14681035