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calories burned > calories consumed
Having a negative energy balance is going to ultimately lead to weight loss, yes. But it's important to eat good foods (whole grains, fruits, vegetables) so you 'feel better' even though you're eating less calories.
This journal article (A Role for Sweet Taste: Calorie Predictive Relations in Energy Regulation by Rats: http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/bne-feb08-swithers.pdf ) is about a comparing natural and artificial sweeteners. The point of the article is the rats fed artificial sweeteners gained more weight than the rats fed real sugar.
It's just a little evidence in support of the original author's assertion that 'Light products are for pussies.' The truth is that while that Diet Coke may have less calories in it, it can also lead to an increase in appetite (read: weight gain.)
calories burned > calories consumed
Good advice, though I think he overemphasizes the gym. The point of exercise is to emphasize how much overeating costs you. It's harder to justify that candy bar when it equates to an hour of hard exercise.
An hour of hard cycling burns about 700 kcals, which is a medium-sized meal. A candy bar is on the order of 250 kcals typically.
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> As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world. This is very wrong. Obesity is not a shortage of discipline, is a hormonal disruption. We play havoc with insulin eating too much of things we didn't evolved to eat.
I'm sorry but I don't buy it. I'm not obese, most people I know are not obese and they are all exposed to the same modern, engineered food that obese people are. I'm not claiming that hormonal disruption doesn't influences it nor am I saying the modern Western diet is any good for you, but I will claim that the majority of obesity, from my limited life experience, comes from lack of self control. If one exercised dis…
There are many people who do have legitimate health problems that cause obesity, sure. But the vast majority of us fat folk (I still hover around 280) eat too much and move too little.
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An hour of hard cycling burns about 700 kcals, which is a medium-sized meal. A candy bar is on the order of 250 kcals typically.
700 kcals is on the extreme high end for an hour of cycling. You'd have to be fairly heavy already and pushing it as hard as you can go. A normal person putting in average effect is probably more like 250-300 kcal.
I know this because of my on-bike power meter, which measures mechanical work in kJ. That "perfect hour" was around 280 W, and I've done it twice. (Cyclists have a very narrow range of biological efficiencies, so you can just multiply mechanical by a constant to reckon metabolic work.)