You know, I’m not a dietitian... But it’s clear that people get fat because they eat more than they need. It’s all about eating too much. If you eat just enough to keep your temperature at 98.6 degrees and support whatever physical activity you have, you won’t gain weight.
It’s not rocket science...
Take your weight (in pounds) and multiply it by 9.8. That is the maximum amount of calories one should in take daily.
If you weigh 120 lbs, the most you should eat is 1176 calories, barring any need for additional calories.
If you weigh 200 lbs, it should be 1960.
they also get fat because of the way they prepare food....from my experience (my college roommate was black, i’ve been to the projects in NYC 1000’s of times) many black people fry foods in cooking oil (rarely olive oil) to the point the food they are cooking (chicken, etc) is literally floating in the pan there’s so much oil (versus baking the chicken)....mind as well spoon the Crisco directly into your mouth...
“it’s clear that people get fat because they eat more than they need. It’s all about eating too much. If you eat just enough to keep your temperature at 98.6 degrees and support whatever physical activity you have, you won’t gain weight”
I might say that that’s too simple and too true for people to pay attention. It is, but that’s not the problem. People will continue to complicate the battle of the bulge for the same reason they needlessly complicate everything. To make money, to attract attention, to grab power. Fatties themselves will know deep down, I trust, that behind the mumbo-jumbo it’s all about how much you take in versus how much you need and how much you move.
They’ll listen to what’s a good carb and what’s a bad carb, what’s good fat and what’s not, but it won’t matter. Eating less and moving more is hard. Eating lots and eating things that taste good make you feel good, however briefly. Fatness will win, because it is the inevitable result of wealth. Which is to say people will be fat if they can be fat, because that’s just how we’re made.
It’s like how all it takes for my dog to eat himself sick is to put out enough food to make him sick. If it’s there he will eat it.