Eat Less, Do More - The Science of Diets

In the race to lose weight people are willing to try any old junk diets. But what's the basic science behind it all and how much can you get away with? Professor Funk investigates.

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http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.php

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[trakkaton]

What incredible BS.

It's not about how much calories you eat, it's about how you eat, when, and what nutrients.

And it's not about how much you do, it's about where what and how you're doing it.

And it's about genetics.

The quality of the food.

How to increase your metabolic rate by more muscle mass.

And so on.

The human body is NOT a simplistic engine.

This video is full of errors and just dumbing down people.

It's BULLSHIT!

[TheProfessorFunk]

@trakkaton Hold up.

You're definitely right re: genetics, muscle mass etc.

But the logic and science is still correct regardless. It's dumbed down, it's simplistic, but it's not BS. It's simply fact.

Regardless of your argument of "it's not about how much you do / eat but about what and when" the reality is that if you're putting more in than you're burning you'll put on weight. Why complicate it more than that?

PS. Doing more = more muscle mass = higher metabolic rate.

[TheProfessorFunk]

Those snakes we have in Australia are AWESOME, They are like the entire contents of bag of gummies melted into one long snake. YUM!

[DaSi14]

Haha I found out what the gummy worms were for at about the Tour de France stage too. But this video really put things in perspective for me the second view. I never really knew what my body can burn off in terms of quantity of food and I was surprised that it's not much at all. I'm going to so eat less and do more.

[TheProfessorFunk]

Thanks. I'm glad the image worked for you.

Yes it's frightening when you see just how little you burn off when you say 'it's ok I cleaned my room for an hour!'. And I love gummys too - I would eat like 2 a day! That's a lot of cleaning!

[cliffzinha]

The part where the snakes are added to the plates was a bit confusing for me, only at the Tour de France stages did I understand what was going on.

But this video was very funny. And I'm not the average 22 year old girl, it seems. :(

[TheProfessorFunk]

Agreed. It was one of those great plans in my head 'what would excersize look like as food' but got convoluded very fast.

Meh - who ever wanted to be average anyway!

[goldensloth7]

Oh my gosh! But have you written a bestselling book?

[a79jones]

@trakkaton Do you know how to read? I fear, as reinforced by your inability to sustain a simple discussion without personal attacks or vulgarity, that you are most likely, and unfortunately, exceedingly under-educated and simple minded. My time with you is done. Go read something written within the last decade.

[AnimeWars2002]

Yes you can't eat some greasy burger as a diet and be healthy by just exercising it away. There's more to food then just calories. if you are vastly obese, you seriously need to look at your diet and clean that up. I'd talk to a doctor first to get that straightened out. If you just want to shed that tummy weight I think the basic, Eat Less, Do More works. Some people take diets to a Starve Yourself, Expect unrealistic results

[trakkaton]

@a79jones

1. You're a little too much of a coward, not answering my comment.

2. You're a little too dumb to take part in this kind of discussion. Just to remind you: It's about factors you can change and those you can't. Playing genetics against prenatal exposure or early childhood when both belong to the same group makes you nothing less than a laughing stock.

3. And now continue your idealistic personal crusade against those evil geneticists, you full-of-shit moron with a short attention span.

[a79jones]

I can do this all day. For a more recent and thoughtful discussion of genetics try "Deflating the Genomic Bubble" Science 2011; 331:861-862 (yes, this is published in the last 20 years). Or think about the literature linking prenatal exposures and obesity (references too numerous) or a recent review in the journal of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases where authors concluded lifestyle factors mostly explain obesity. Old research leads to old ideas.

[trakkaton]

@a79jones

Wrong.

"The Body-Mass Index of Twins Who Have Been Reared Apart", N Engl J Med 1990; 322:1483-1487

And the strawman fallacy was just stupid.

[a79jones]

@trakkaton Almost all identical twins have identical upbringing and thus identical activity and diet patterns. If it were up to geneticists we would conclude speaking a certain language was due to genetics.

[trakkaton]

@a79jones

Almost all identical twins have identical body weight.

[a79jones]

@trakkaton Not BS... It really is that simple. Don't hold your breath on genetics. Genetics are far less important than the lay person (or even the highly educated person) thinks. Behaviors, like doing more and eating less are the most important contributors to weight loss/gain.