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A Massive New Harvard Study Shows Which Diet Burns the Most Calories

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Summary:

Diets that replaced carbs with fat burned an average of 250 calories a day more, in a study whose methodology wasn’t described or skeptically analyzed whatsoever. Author then goes on to repeat “not all calories are identical” repeatedly.

Re: A Massive New Harvard Study Shows Which Diet Burns the Most Calories

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I've always found this aspect of the low carb debate to be mostly irrelevant. The benefit I get from eating a low carb diet isn't that I burn more calories (as in, i'm not expressing an opinion either way on that). It's that I have a desire to eat dramatically fewer calories on a low-carb diet, and the weight loss effects come from that, not higher metabolism. I don't understand why so many studies want to focus on metabolic rate, when it seems clear to me that the most material benefit is the blunted calorie-adjusted hunger.

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Summary: Diets that replaced carbs with fat burned an average of 250 calories a day more, in a study whose methodology wasn’t described or skeptically analyzed whatsoever. Author then goes on to repeat “not all calories are identical” repeatedly.

The methodology seems to be described in the linked research paper, which should be the article linked, not this lame summary: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4583

Re: A Massive New Harvard Study Shows Which Diet Burns the Most Calories

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Carbohydrates are also the cheapest calories.

I was actually just lamenting how difficult it is to get a "real" (no lettuce) salad this evening.

Making them at home isn't /really/ an option for me, not unless I want to eat it literally every day. The greens would go bad in about half a week; the other semi-perishable things would need to go shortly after.

It's so much easier to go out and get something fresh and variety from a common kitchen (restaurant) that services many others all day.

However, because carbs are cheap, and because meat is popular, those are the two things every restaurant has a focus and spin on.

Eating healthy is too expensive.

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Carbohydrates are also the cheapest calories.

I was actually just lamenting how difficult it is to get a "real" (no lettuce) salad this evening. Making them at home isn't /really/ an option for me, not unless I want to eat it literally every day. The greens would go bad in about half a week; the other semi-perishable things would need to go shortly after. It's so much easier to go out and get something fresh and variety from a common kitchen (restaurant) that se…

Why don’t “real” salads include lettuce?
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