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Then why doesn't it work in the other configurations? For instance, a low fat diet has been shown to not cause weight loss. Even though fat is an insanely dense

by foxyv 7y ago

Then why doesn't it work in the other configurations? For instance, a low fat diet has been shown to not cause weight loss. Even though fat is an insanely dense energy source, cutting it out of your diet leads to GAINING weight. If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way.

gamblor956 7y ago
For instance, a low fat diet has been shown to not cause weight loss. Literally every diet has been shown to cause weight loss if paired with a caloric deficit... Low carb. Low fat. Low protein. No fruits. Only fruits. Etc. If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way. The types of fat and carbs in your diet matter. You can eat healthy carbs all day (i.e., vegetables) and not gain weight over a year, or eat unhealthy fats (i.e., trans fats) and gain 10 pounds in a week.
dkarl 7y ago
Low fat diets were the conventional wisdom for quite a long period of time. Lots of people got lean and athletic on them and still do. > If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way. There are two ways of looking at whether a diet "works." First, what happens when a person actually follows the diet. This is what most people are curious about. Second, what happens when you tell a person to follow the diet. This is what all the scientific papers are written about because it's what doctors, public health experts, and other researchers care about. Don't get the two mixed up. From the first point of view, there's a wide variety of very different diets that "work." From the second point of view, basically nothing works, and there is a never-ending (re)search in which occasionally somebody announces weak evidence that the diet du jour is better than yesterday's favored diet, but there's no reason to believe the current conventional wisdom will last any longer than previous expert consensuses such as the need to eat low-fat.
austhrow743 7y ago
>If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way. Sticking to diets is really really hard.

by foxyv 7y ago

gamblor956 7y ago

For instance, a low fat diet has been shown to not cause weight loss. Literally every diet has been shown to cause weight loss if paired with a caloric deficit... Low carb. Low fat. Low protein. No fruits. Only fruits. Etc. If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way. The types of fat and carbs in your diet matter. You can eat healthy carbs all day (i.e., vegetables) and not gain weight over a year, or eat unhealthy fats (i.e., trans fats) and gain 10 pounds in a week.

dkarl 7y ago

Low fat diets were the conventional wisdom for quite a long period of time. Lots of people got lean and athletic on them and still do. > If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way. There are two ways of looking at whether a diet "works." First, what happens when a person actually follows the diet. This is what most people are curious about. Second, what happens when you tell a person to follow the diet. This is what all the scientific papers are written about because it's what doctors, public health experts, and other researchers care about. Don't get the two mixed up. From the first point of view, there's a wide variety of very different diets that "work." From the second point of view, basically nothing works, and there is a never-ending (re)search in which occasionally somebody announces weak evidence that the diet du jour is better than yesterday's favored diet, but there's no reason to believe the current conventional wisdom will last any longer than previous expert consensuses such as the need to eat low-fat.

austhrow743 7y ago

>If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way. Sticking to diets is really really hard.