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This title is probably going to pull the pseudoscience out of the woodwork... The title can easily be misread... It means that the act of counting calories is
by ravitation 9y ago
This title is probably going to pull the pseudoscience out of the woodwork...
The title can easily be misread... It means that the act of counting calories is not key to weight loss - i.e. calories can also be reduced by a more tangible diet (like a low-fat or a low-carbohydrate diet) without explicitly counting calories... It does not say that caloric restriction isn't the most important part of a weight loss diet, it still is...
Considering that the paper itself isn't even meant to address the effectiveness of "counting calories" vs. "not counting calories", this title is extremely clickbait-y...
- closetohome 9y agoIt definitely strays into that gray area between nutritional mechanics and human psychology that makes for dramatic headlines.
- themoat 9y agoYeah, I really feel like the spirit of the article is summed up by the final paragraph “I think one place we go wrong is telling people to figure out how many calories they eat and then telling them to cut back on 500 calories, which makes them miserable,” he said. “We really need to focus on that foundational diet, which is more vegetables, more whole foods, less added sugar and less refined grains.” The long term solution is really what he's talking about, right? The long term solution to weight struggles is really transforming your eating habits and gravitating towards more nutritious foods.