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Low carb diets seem to be a key component of curbing metabolic syndrome, but it’s really never as simple as “diet and exercise…keep doing it”. For some bodies,
by teucris 4y ago
Low carb diets seem to be a key component of curbing metabolic syndrome, but it’s really never as simple as “diet and exercise…keep doing it”. For some bodies, the amount of diet and exercise needed to avoid metabolic diseases is so high that it impedes quality of life.
- throwaway12245 4y ago> it’s really never as simple as “diet and exercise…keep doing it” I disagree with "never". I think most people can use diet and exercise to avoid and even reverse type 2 diabetes. An unpopular opinion hereabouts, but likely true.
- tuatoru 4y agoThe exercise part is possible in theory, but in practise not many people have lives in which they can do 4000 kcal of exercise daily, six days a week. 4000 kcal takes a long time. I have heard of a guy who became a security guard and walked around a town for 10 hours each night. Exercise took him from "severely obese" to just above "normal" BMI over the course of 18 months or so. The diet part is also possible in theory, but many people's family and social environments practically require them to eat muffins, cakes, sweet desserts, and other micronutrient-poor dishes. Refusal to take part gets them ostracized.
- throwaway12245 4y ago>social environments practically require them to eat muffins, cakes, sweet desserts Most people will let you slide on gorging if you simply say "Doctor's orders". HIIT means sprinting hard 3 times twice a week. Just about anybody can do it.
- tuatoru 4y agoYeah, but it doesn't burn enough calories. Even accounting for the increase in basal metabolic rate.
- throwaway12245 4y agoCheck out the clinical trials.
- teucris 4y agoI have. It works for some people, but there are scores of situations where it isn’t enough.