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Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

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Post by rojeee »

drooby wrote: post #55
Delphiza wrote: post #32

Unsurprisingly, the title is sensationalist and not representative of the study. The study compares energy expenditure across different economic groups i.e. western people sitting in offices versus hunter-gatherers in Africa, and found that difference in energy expenditure does not account for differences in obesity, so points to consumption as the likely reason. The sample dataset explicitly excluded 'athletes', so…

Magnus Midtbo has Kristian Blummrnfelt on his show, who is the Olympic gold medalist for triathlon. Kristian essentially eats pasta and Nutella and bread all day. So technically, yes, you can outrun a bad diet.. Though me thinks this article is aimed at the average person.

Nitpick but Alex Yee won gold in 2024, Blummenfelt was 12th!

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Post by cthalupa »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #364
cthalupa wrote: post #274

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What side effects? Stomach discomfort when you start on the med and titrate up? Current recommendations on the GLP-1s is to keep using them even after goal weight.

I have heard that feelings of nausea as a side effect are almost a given.

Primarily only with semaglutide, and even then, it is a short term thing.

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Post by knicholes »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #103
knicholes wrote: post #23

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Try a diet plan where you prep your own meals and intake a specific amount of calories. I've used Clean Simple Eats in the past. Diet only works. Diet+exercise works better, and adds all of the benefits of exercise.

I walk over 2 miles a day. My doctor suggested weight training (which I had not thought of as a way to lose weight — I don't think of it as an aerobic workout).

Your doctor is right. You burn calories both during the exercise and during recovery. You build lean muscle mass which raises your metabolism, which burns more calories. Virtuous cycle.

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Post by pqtyw »

kelnos wrote: post #341
pqtyw wrote: post #190

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Yes but the macros are more or less comparable? It's chicken breast with extra saturated fat and stuff.

I think you are unfairly overly minimizing the impact of the "extra saturated fat and stuff".

It still comparable amount to e.g. chicken thigh. So the question is whether you consider vegetable fats more harmful.

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Post by 9rx »

tpm wrote: post #369
reverendsteveii wrote: post #367

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it's not though, because I lost 25% of my weight

"For two years I was biking 6-8 miles every day, doing resistance training and maintaining 210lbs"

"I'm 5'6", 165lbs, I bike 6-8 miles every day"

Re: Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

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Post by tpm »

9rx wrote: post #395
tpm wrote: post #369

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"For two years I was biking 6-8 miles every day, doing resistance training and maintaining 210lbs"

"I'm 5'6", 165lbs , I bike 6-8 miles every day"

But he only lost weight after limiting caloric intake, even though he was biking every day before that too. My point was we shouldn't expect losing weight with such short rides, the body will use muscle and liver reserves for that and only with much longer rides start burning fat from adipose cells.
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