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CICO simplifies dieting so much that 2000 calories from drinking cola are equal to 2000 calories from eating a stew of chickpeas, beans and nuts. The human body
by GeoAtreides 3y ago
CICO simplifies dieting so much that 2000 calories from drinking cola are equal to 2000 calories from eating a stew of chickpeas, beans and nuts. The human body is not a furnace literally burning fuel, it's a complex chemical reactor in a tight feedback loop with what it actually processes.
- ninkendo 3y agoI mean, it’s not that far off. Take this guy who ate only twinkies/nutty bars/donuts/doritos for a month (with some veggies added in for fiber/ruffage): https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor... > His body mass index went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal. He now weighs 174 pounds. > But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so. > Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.
- GeoAtreides 3y agoI mean, yeah, of course if you eat less than your body needs, you will lose weight, nobody is denying that. You can lose weight drinking only coca cola every day. Now, how _easy_ that would be, how much hunger one would feel, the effect on health, mental health, energy, what the rebound is after the diet is done etc., that's a completely different discussion. And another discussion is how much the weight loss is sustainable/maintainable in the long term. So yeah, in a vacuum, with a perfectly spherical cow, it's not that far off.