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Old Wed, May-23-18, 15:25
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Nina writing another LA Times Op-Ed:

Counting calories won't reduce obesity. So why are we requiring restaurants to post them?

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...0520-story.html
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Old Wed, May-23-18, 21:12
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a person's metabolic rate slows down to accommodate semi-starvation, but it doesn't bounce back, resulting in a stubbornly depressed metabolism. To maintain that weight loss, it appears a person must restrict calories for life — a state of deprivation that, as it turns out, few humans can sustain.
I, for one don't believe it, and you can ramp up metabolism ~14% by fasting along with HGH and other hormones like Testosterone.

A good, to the point article in a respected media source

"Cut out one soda a week and you could lose three pounds by the end of the year?"

No, it does not work like that! LOL

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Old Wed, May-23-18, 22:31
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Calorie chart for an ice cream treat I was buying someone made it quick to identify the stuff with the highest fat content so they wouldn't get a sorry dose of nothing but fat-free sugar hitting their system all at once. That's the only time I've had one of those calorie charts be useful.
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Old Thu, May-24-18, 08:19
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Originally Posted by JEY100
Counting calories won't reduce obesity. So why are we requiring restaurants to post them?


I think part of the issue with these arguments is conflating counting with restricting. Clearly, if you eat 10,000 calories a day, then counting them won't make a difference, but it is easy to underestimate how many calories you are eating. Counting calories is really no different than keeping track of your finances. It may or may not result in spending less, but you can't really get a handle on it until you understand where your money (or calories) is going. I just watched a video by Dr. Westman where he says the data is in that the main cause of losing weight on low carb is that it results in eating less calories. In general, eating low carb should curb appetite, and not require counting, but we don't all get the same results.

P.S. I am not in favor of requiring calorie counts.
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Old Thu, May-24-18, 09:51
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If you watch this video with Jason Fung, MD, you will understand exactly why calories don't really matter. Of course, I also read all of Gary Taubes' books, which also helped me to understand. Plus I know that calories are created by literally BURNING food in a lab, and since our bodies don't burn food in a fire, it's common sense to figure that we wouldn't absorb them in the same way.
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Old Mon, May-28-18, 21:59
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Calories as the basis for weight gain/loss is genuinely absurd. It's based on a naive interpretation of First and Second Laws. A much more appropriate unit of measure would be something like a dose-to-mass cause/effect ratio of a particular substance. We have ample precedent for such a unit of measure with a multitude of drugs and other substances which have a direct effect on body mass (both fat and lean mass) independently of food intake and physical activity.

Consider growth hormone for example. Compared to food, the total mass of HGH is insignificant (therefore the total caloric content of HGH), yet its effect on both fat and lean mass is several orders of magnitude greater. In this case, dose-to-mass cause/effect ratio as a unit of measure is a no brainer. If there's still any doubt about the validity of comparing HGH to food with regards to caloric content, consider that HGH is a peptide hormone - it's a protein. In spite of HGH being a protein, in spite of protein being a calorific macronutrient, nowhere on this planet do any of us consider the caloric content of HGH for any purpose whatsoever ever. The same argument can be made for insulin, testosterone, estrogen, T3/T4, you name it.

Based on the above, and based on the unarguable fact that different macronutrients have different effects on fat and lean mass, the same unit of measure for something like dose-to-mass cause/effect ratio is also a no brainer.

Once we've determined an appropriate scale for various foods and meals and such, then putting up that unit of measure on restaurant meals becomes genuinely useful. Otherwise, the calorie is a total waste of grey matter.
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Old Mon, May-28-18, 22:28
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Another idea just came to mind. For Joe Public and everyday use, a simpler scale can be devised - low/mid/high. An easy guide would be devised where Joe just compares what he's about to eat in a good-enough fashion. Imagine something like My Plate or a food guide, but so much simpler and purely for the purpose of growing fatter or leaner.

For more tech oriented people, imagine a food database linking this scale through the bar code. Scan it with your smart phone (take a picture, there's an app, yada yada), decide, done.

This idea can be extended to include nutrition information and so forth, but just the fatter/leaner thing sounds mighty useful to me.
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I don't care about calories. I care about carbs and ingredients.
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