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I'd content that is absolutely awful advise for people. It gives them free reign to drink soda, eat pizza and sugar without knowing what it is doing to their bo

I'd content that is absolutely awful advise for people. It gives them free reign to drink soda, eat pizza and sugar without knowing what it is doing to their body so long as "they are within the calorie limit". This is bad. See my other comment on hormones. They play a HUGE role and not understanding them leads to statements like "it's all about the calories" or "I'm only eating 1000 calories" etc etc.

jacques_chester 14y ago
> This is bad. It can be, sure. Tooth decay, vitamin deficiency, muscle and bone wasting, all that jazz. But are we still talking about weight control or not? Because people love to make it super ultra complex when the basic control mechanism is fairly straightforward. My hyper-elaborate advice for the more general "health control" case (as opposed to "weight control") is: 1. Eat more to gain weight, less to lose weight, and about the same to stay about the same. 2. Make sure you get plenty of protein. It's good for you. 3. Eat a variety of foods. 4. Lift weights. 5. Do something that makes your heart pump really hard for a while. I mean for myself I have zillions of tweaks. But it's easy to go off the deep end chasing that 1-2% optimisation when all most people want is the 20% of information that gives 80% of the result.