This grinds my gears… I was suggested this article on Google, titled
“Researchers Suggest It’s What You Eat, Not How Much, That Leads to Weight Loss”
https://www.verywellfit.com/what-you...n-most-5201976
And in the article, they literally say that hormonal changes will lead people to overeat, which causes fat gain.
So in other words… CICO.. and yeah, it’s over consumption of calories.
This is so fukking infuriating to me for some reason… like the title itself is literally contradicted by the authors within a few sentences…
How exactly does this stuff keep getting published and passed the editorial process? Baffles me….
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09-26-2021, 02:35 PM #1
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Why do people write stupid articles? (CICO doesn’t work… lol)
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09-26-2021, 02:39 PM #2
You have Ludwig and his camp that all go with the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity, then you have Hall and his camp that says it isn't true (or at least not true enough to account for everything), and then you get technical arguments both ways and common sense loses out.
In that article multiple concepts are conflated; it says it's not all about energy but then the issue with foods that increase insulin is that we end up getting hungrier and eat more. Thus, it is indeed all about energy.
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09-26-2021, 02:42 PM #3
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09-26-2021, 03:06 PM #4
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09-26-2021, 03:13 PM #5
Clickbait. It's all about the catchy headlines, bro. Even "reputable" (LOL) news sites like CNN have articles with headlines that are just outright disingenuous. They get revenue off of clicks, not reads. This clicks over everything mentality is why the internet helped kill any last modicum of journalistic integrity in the last decade.
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09-26-2021, 03:25 PM #6
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09-26-2021, 03:55 PM #7
Short answer: people are idiots.
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09-26-2021, 04:20 PM #8
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09-26-2021, 05:03 PM #12
meh,people know exactly who i mean. Communication is about understanding. And just because my German, Spanish, and Japanese aren’t fluent, I can still make myself understood in 90% of the real world situations in those countries. And I was done worrying about my grammar after I got my degree(a lot of writing for an english minor). Grammar nazis are usually people with something to prove after finally learning 1 or 2 rules they didn’t know before.
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09-26-2021, 05:41 PM #13
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09-27-2021, 01:52 AM #14
Yep, these articles are all over the place. It seems with nutrition the myths are in some cases so old, they almost become the "truth". And it's difficult to convince people otherwise when they can do a quick Google search and uncover dozens of articles saying the opposite to what you tell them.
I've had people tell me carbs will make me fat, fat will make me fat, even zero calorie diet soda will make me fat lol. Fortunately I have first hand experience that eating less = losing weight, eating more = gaining weight.
Thank God for smart phones and apps though - prior to that I wouldn't have had the patience to record calories and macros via pen and paper, and this has been the key to me gaining and losing weight at will.
As to why people keep writing these articles? I suspect click bait and lazy journalism. In the mainstream news it's not uncommon for something to be reported on in an inaccurate fashion, and for that information to almost be "copy and pasted" across multiple channels and sources.
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09-27-2021, 04:24 AM #15
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09-27-2021, 10:49 AM #18
Because it can sell stuff/get clicks. As long as there is money to be made through weight loss gimmicks, snake oil will be sold
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09-27-2021, 11:22 AM #19
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09-27-2021, 11:55 AM #20
There's a communal understanding amongst professionals in any given field to make simple concepts as complicated and confusing as possible to generate a need to continually consult people in those industries for advice.
Like how lawyers make statutes, documents, etc. so complicated that you need lawyers to explain them to you. And why the final highlighted takeaway of the linked article is to always talk to a healthcare professional before changing your eating plan.
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09-27-2021, 12:11 PM #21
The superfluous bureaucracies expand for the sake of safeguarding their expansion. It's sad that most of the real work in society is done by computers and machines so that having a mostly employed population usually entails a lot of nearly pointless jobs, and many industries' survival depends on propagating the precarious sustainability of something inherently not needed or barely wanted. Seems that this results in a lot less fulfillment and vigor in life overall with this scenario.
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09-28-2021, 09:30 AM #22
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Stupidity dressed up as academia has been around long before the internet; it's just easier to spread the garbage now.
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