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One extra rich tea biscuit a day (100kcal) is 10lbs in a year. You don't know what you are talking about.

• manmal 4y ago
  That’s assuming perfect conversion of energy to body fat. That’s never the case due to losses, and everybody is _vastly_ different: > In response to 84 days of 1000 kcal/day of overfeeding, 12 pairs of monozygotic twins gained on average 8.1 kg, but the range was from 4.3 to 13.3 kg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897177/
  • etothepii 4y ago
    Your arithmetic does not support the use of the word vastly. It only diverges by mine on the line above by 25%.
    • manmal 4y ago
      > 4.3 to 13.3 kg That’s not a vast range? It means some people gain more than they „should“, and some less than half of the caloric intake. It’s also not „my“ arithmetic btw.
      • etothepii 4y ago
        Apologies. Though my statement holds with s/Your/That/. My original response was to a comment suggesting that overweight and obese people get home and eat 15 chocolate bars. My observation, supported by your additional evidence, is that a small imbalance has a substantial cumulative effect.
    • kennywinker 4y ago
      The study was with 12 pairs of identical twins. Variation of 25% in IDENTICAL TWINS suggests that variation among genetically different individuals is probably going to be much larger.