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Guys, not meaning to get at anybody, but one thing which winds me up is when people advise that all you need to do to lose weight, is to create a calorie deficit, i.e. burn more calories than you take it. I'm sorry but this is just wrong, and dangerous advice.
Try it yourself, create a calorie deficit eating fast food, see how long you live for, let alone how much weight you lose!
It may well be that we put on weight due in part to ingesting too many calories, but a more significant problem is the poor quality of these calories, and the fact that they are 'empty calories' of little of no nutritional value, and often very difficult for the body to process due to being highly processed, artificial foods. If you doubt this, look at what is happening as the 'Western diet' is introduced in China and India.
Another issue is that the highly processed foods which are the problem, lead us to over consume, since they are designed to make us eat more, for example by including MSG (which by the way can be hidden behind many names which you wont recognise).
Diet drinks are also a big problem, although they contain fewer calories, they make us consume more calories overall. They are proven to contribute to weight gain over time.
Bottom line is this. Weight loss is not rocket science, and you don't need to track calories, you don't need to do loads of research, you already know what to do. Foods which grow naturally are good to eat, stuff which is created in factories is not. Don't fall for the marketing hype, don't overcomplicate things, eat the stuff which our bodies have evolved to process over the millennia, not the stuff which has been invented over the past 50 years, as the obesity crisis has taken hold.
Try it yourself, create a calorie deficit eating fast food, see how long you live for, let alone how much weight you lose!
It may well be that we put on weight due in part to ingesting too many calories, but a more significant problem is the poor quality of these calories, and the fact that they are 'empty calories' of little of no nutritional value, and often very difficult for the body to process due to being highly processed, artificial foods. If you doubt this, look at what is happening as the 'Western diet' is introduced in China and India.
Another issue is that the highly processed foods which are the problem, lead us to over consume, since they are designed to make us eat more, for example by including MSG (which by the way can be hidden behind many names which you wont recognise).
Diet drinks are also a big problem, although they contain fewer calories, they make us consume more calories overall. They are proven to contribute to weight gain over time.
Bottom line is this. Weight loss is not rocket science, and you don't need to track calories, you don't need to do loads of research, you already know what to do. Foods which grow naturally are good to eat, stuff which is created in factories is not. Don't fall for the marketing hype, don't overcomplicate things, eat the stuff which our bodies have evolved to process over the millennia, not the stuff which has been invented over the past 50 years, as the obesity crisis has taken hold.
And who wants to look like a bodybuilder 
