No, I’m sorry but you can believe that people of all different ethnic background, physiotypes, and sets of enzymes will burn food energy the same way. How do you go about deciding the calorie needs for an individual? Using those useless height weight male female tables?
That is not where the science is but people who just repeat the old saws, including many family doctors, diet counsellors etc., think it is.
It’s so tempting to blame people as having no self control and eating unhealthy diets. That is certainly true for some people but not for many who struggle to be a healthy weight. IOW it’s a cop out, a just world hypothesis that satisfies the need to believe that if bad things happen it’s the fault of the person they happen to. Interestingly up to a point the less you eat the lower your calorie requirements, the body becomes more efficient. Freegards.
” Using those useless height weight male female tables?”
For mere money you can determine your ACTUAL sedentary calorie burn, and ongoing burn while active.
For those of us that are of modest means, those table give a close approximation. Knowing that movement for somebody at 8% body fat consumes far more calories than the same movement of somebody at 25% body fat.
Precision is not necessary to change the way you live and observe results on the scales and in the mirror.
“It’s so tempting to blame people as having no self control and eating unhealthy diets.”
That is, in 100% of all cases in the history of mankind, the certain cause of obesity. It simply cannot be anything else.