I found this looking for something else. Let’s try Burnaby, where there’s a by-election coming.
Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 8
I put together a series of tweets for a doctor who wrote a diet book. As I read the usual diet debates on news sites, I can’t escape the feeling that we have no idea what we’re doing. I therefore reject all criticism of what I’m doing until someone does me the courtesy of reviewing my nearly three years of data before making remarks.
Here’s what I put on Twitter.
There are people (like me) who complain that losing weight is absurdly hard despite focused documented effort over years. There has also been people who want to gain weight for whom no number of protein shakes and weight training has taken them up the scale.
Has there ever been a study wherein two such groups of people have been compared by putting them all on the same diet and light fitness routine for a month or two? E.g., if they are all guys, 3500 calories a day for a couple of weeks and then 2500 calories for an additional couple of weeks.
Were that to happen — and the process doesn’t prove diet/fitness incompetence in the test subjects — but rather proves that some people lose easily and others don’t, what biological processes would account for the phenomenon? How would you figure that out during the test?
