By: Alex T
The diet is just a placebo that triggers it [attention to eating]. I don’t buy it, I wonder if you have that flipped around. The diet and the exercise are key, at least from a mere physiological...
View ArticleBy: ted
Good article, i like the simplicity to explain something that doctors and trainers sometimes fail to explain to people ho don’t know so much about how the human body works. Finally weight loss is about...
View ArticleBy: Erik Davis
I think you’ve taken that line out of context. My point there wasn’t that there’s no mechanism for weight loss — the calorie math works — but that even diets that purport not to care about the calorie...
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[...] Follow Friday goes out to the blog Skeptic North, in particular the posts written by Erik Davis. I’ve linked to his work before – he has [...]
View ArticleBy: CC
Here’s an interesting study on attentive eating. In short, if you pay attention to how much you eat (in this study, counting how many times you swallowed) you’re satisfied faster and thus eat less.
View ArticleBy: Erik Davis
Yeah, I suspect this is on the right path. Which is not to say that there aren’t likely diet-based approaches to satiety management as well — many dietitians will talk about the role of protein, fibre,...
View ArticleBy: Ampov
I completely agree with everything you said above and I will support it with an example from personal experience. I must admit I already tried many of the diets you mentioned above and the result is...
View ArticleBy: Larry
Diet and exercise don’t work when looking at large groups because the average dieter/exerciser are not good at it. However, if you look at subgroups and individuals you can find extremely good athletes...
View ArticleBy: Luke
@Larry – Completely agree. We conducted a study at my University but results were completely distorted because of this. Only a select few actually train and diet properly
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