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No. The evidence largely points to CICO being harmful bullshit. Reducing things to thermodynamics is not useful to people trying to lose weight. Any more than
by scrollaway 3y ago
No. The evidence largely points to CICO being harmful bullshit.
Reducing things to thermodynamics is not useful to people trying to lose weight. Any more than talking about the speed of light is useful to people trying to run faster.
Metabolism influences passive weight loss. Fiber influences caloric absorption. Muscle mass influences calorie burn. Gut microbiome impacts fat and caloric absorption by the body. Food quality and type influences all of the above.
Say it with me: CICO is harmful, reductive bullshit. If it helped you lose weight, great; it doesn’t help most people though and there is an obesity epidemic to handle.
- mozman 3y agoWe don't know it all but CICO is most definitely not bullshit.
- scrollaway 3y agoJust because it’s technically correct doesn’t make it useful or helpful. It’s technically correct that computer instructions are all in binary. Yet learning binary is not useful to people trying to code in Python. If the python community started to tell learners “it’s all binary in the end”, it being true wouldn’t make it any less of an unhelpful reductive bullshit claim.
- tsimionescu 3y agoThere are two things people understand by CICO: 1. The broad idea that your weight loss/gain is affected by the caloric content of the food you eat and the amount of excercise you get. This is almost trivially true from simple thermodynamic arguments, and no one contradicts it. 2. The specific belief that weight loss is completely reducible to using your free will to eat less calories and do more sports, and that there is no further discussion to be made on how to help someone lose weight (e.g. no medical checkups for hormone issues, no therapy for mental health, no look at the fattening effects of medication or pollutants, no caring about microbiomes, etc.). This part is what is harmful bullshit, since it posits that human beings of strong moral character should not let their basic biology affect their behavior.