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You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds (www.npr.org)

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (12 children)

It's a bit more nuanced than that

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

it's really not, you can make it more nuanced but it's really as simple as eating different and less.

I have personally lost 40lbs by eating different. no physical activity changes, only food. I stopped eating carbs and sugar. i essentially went keto and within 5 mo ths, 40 lbs vanished. I went from. a 41 pant to a 34/36 and shirts went from XL to M/L.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There was another comment I replied to earlier that summed it up pretty well, so I'm just going to paste it here.

Of course it's that simple. It always was. Purely technically speaking. Reduce calories in whatever way and probably even exercise to some degree. No magic needed.

It's just not that easy for everybody equally. Some just can't regulate themselves well, some take drugs that fuck your weight up even if you'd just eat a slice of bread daily, some can't exercise at all, some are too poor to buy non-shitty foods (especially in horrible food-anarchy-countries like the US where sugar is legion), and some simply don't know better or don't understand.

You saying "is it really that easy?" Is survivorship-bias. You succeeded where millions(?) fail. But congrats anyway 😁

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never said easy, I said it's simple. simple things can still be difficult to achieve and maintaining it is even more difficult, but it's still a simple thing of eating less, and not eating carbs // sugar to get energy.

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

The top definition of simple is as an adjective and it's:

easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty

While you likely meant it in the exclamation form:

used to convey that something is very straightforward

Straightforward would probably be a better synonym of simple to use in this instance.

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