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"Eat less, move more" is the advice professionals have been giving for years. This advice doesn't work though. Yes you have to do those things but telling peopl
by dalore 6y ago
"Eat less, move more" is the advice professionals have been giving for years. This advice doesn't work though. Yes you have to do those things but telling people to do that in of itself is useless. There are strong biological/environmental factors at play working against that very advice. Having obesity isn't just some decision that people wake up and decide on.
The main advantage of the low-carb diet is that it may cause you to want to eat less. Even without counting calories, overweight people tend to eat fewer calories on low carb. Sugar and starch may increase your hunger, while avoiding them may decrease your appetite to a more manageable level. If your body wants to have an appropriate number of calories, you don’t need to bother counting them. Thus, calories count, but you don’t need to count them.
- shlant 6y ago> This advice doesn't work though It does work in the vast majority of cases. "biological/environmental factors" that may make this harder are the exception, not the norm > The main advantage of the low-carb diet is that it may cause you to want to eat less But this isn't unique to low-carb diets. You can also swap out a portion of your food for vegetables and get similar satiety while eating less calories. Eating slower can also help you eat less. The point is, an extremely restrictive diet is not necessary to achieve the same results.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoThe advice doesn’t work. If it worked, why do we still have an obesity epidemic? Are there still people who haven’t heard this message?
- shlant 6y ago> If it worked, why do we still have an obesity epidemic not everyone follows the advice? It takes a LOT of effort and discipline? Food is a powerful vice and coping mechanism. Addiction of any kind is not an easy thing to overcome especially when that addiction is so normalized. > Are there still people who haven’t heard this message? I think in most first-world countries no, but there is a massive difference between hearing something, understanding something and successfully implementing something
- ubercow13 6y ago>It takes a LOT of effort and discipline That's the whole point, low-carb takes less effort and discipline for the same result
- shlant 6y ago> low-carb takes less effort and discipline "less effort and discipline" than what? depends on the comparison Also, I'm sure a lot of people who have had trouble staying on the diet would disagree. Regardless of the specific regime, if a diet is restrictive (especially of things people are used to consuming) it can require a lot of discipline.
- AnonC 6y ago> low-carb takes less effort and discipline for the same result For which group of people and what cultural background? Any advice on diet that tends towards “this works for all or most” is very likely riddled with personal bias.
- smoe 6y agoHow does it take less effort? I lost around 30 kg from being obese without doing low, high or abstain anything. Also no calorie counting except in the very beginning. After going down the rabit whole of trying to understand all the details of nutrition. What eventually worked is the simple and stupid advice: eat less, move more. The problem is that there are no easy 30 day hacks, which is what people often expect. From my perspective, whichever diet, it will take time and you need to make lasting lifestyle changes. The rest are implementation details.
- ubercow13 6y agoThe claim (which the above comments are seemingly ignoring, and I kind of believe myself but am not asserting) is that low-carb diet decreases hunger, making it naturally less effort to eat less (or at least requiring less willpower)
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