Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: JayGalt

The link is to the blog of a hobbyist.

Another person selling a BS story. A “special, easy method”.

FYI: The reason people on low carb diets lose weight is because they consume fewer calories. Take away carbs and one’s appetite diminishes.

But you cannot build a FIT body without a balanced diet and strenuous exercise.


40 posted on 01/01/2022 9:13:52 AM PST by Mariner (War criminal #18)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]


To: Mariner

OK. Ignore the science that the body doesn’t burn calories like a calorimeter because a hobbyist laid out the science at a level people can understand. I guess if you can stand spouting debunked theories like eating fat makes you fat and a calorie is a calorie I can still be your fellow freeper & even agree with you in other areas.
Sometimes overly simplistic sees to the heart of the matter, sometimes it’s a miss.
Your theory ignores the complexity of the human machine, something we are still understanding, ignores the multiple chains that breakdown food: some more efficient, other’s less so.
People have variations on common groups of enzymes and some are tremendously inefficient leading to people that eat like horses & don’t get fat. Other people, winners in times of famine, are very efficient and gain weight in 100 calories a day.
There is a psychological mechanism called “Just World hypothesis” where people want to believe doing the right thing gets you results. A calories is a calorie is one example of that process.


62 posted on 01/01/2022 10:13:34 AM PST by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson