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The "gluttony-sloth" hypothesis (fat people don't move enough and eat too much) has been thoroughly disproved. Regular exercise is an exceptionally bad way to
by kilian 16y ago
The "gluttony-sloth" hypothesis (fat people don't move enough and eat too much) has been thoroughly disproved.
Regular exercise is an exceptionally bad way to lose weight (though there numerous other benefits!), so are smaller portions (smaller portions means you are hungry, and that makes you hold on to your fat deposits)
If you're interested, read "good calories, bad calories". It goes into about a century of dietary research and makes the arguments much more eloquently. Here are some notes: http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-bad-calories http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba...
- cageface 16y agoHis emphasis isn't on weight loss, it's overall health. The American obsession with waistsize vastly oversimplifies a complex equation. All the people I've known personally that obsessed over their diets this way would have been better off spending that time on a long walk. The paleolithic diet is hardly generally accepted among nutritionists either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet