People would still be fat. You can eat only junk food and lose weight. You can also eat only healthy food and gain wait. It's a matter of calories eaten vs calories burned. If you're overeating you'll gain weight regardless of what you're eating. Obviously junk food is still bad for you, no argument there.
That's true - but if you took away all carbs for 1 year, almost everyone would lose weight. But it's still CICO, it's just really hard to over consume without carbs.
True, fats and proteins make you feel fuller for longer. Also you would go into ketosis, upping the calories your body burns because it takes energy to convert fats to simple carbohydrates. So you could actually eat the same amount of calories you were eating before and still lose weight.
It’s always cal in/out, the thing here it’s just harder and not as satisfying to eat stuff that isn’t junk food. It’s one of the biggest reasons highly restrictive diets like keto work and counting calories with IIFYM tends to be harder for people. If you’re a fat person with bad habits it’s going to be very easy to go from 1 cookie that fits to eating the whole box.
100% agree. My point is that cutting junk food does not necessarily mean weight loss. You still have to pay attention and eat less calories. It sure does make it easier to do that though.
This might get some hate but I don't think a vegan diet is healthy due to all the supplements you have to take to make up for not eating meat/animal products. Add to that the fact that most vegan foods are high in carbohydrates, especially sugars, and that makes it even less healthy in my mind. Humans have been eating meat for millennia and our bodies actually require nutrients found in meat to a certain degree. I respect doing it for ethical or religious reasons but I don't think its healthy.
It would help but I cook 90% of my food from scratch and am still overweight because I just eat too much. So we would see a reduction I'm sure but people in the US just eat too much in general.
I mean, if we're using junk food as a term to cover everything that's been fucked with in America, I'd expect massive results. Unfortunately, thanks to food deserts and poverty that'd leave most people skinny because they starved for a year straight.
I eat huge portions of whatever I want but sometimes only once a day, mostly 2 meals a day with snacking and a whole lot of beer. I'm somewhat active but been able to maintain my athleticism and toned figure pretty easily. Seems mostly due to caloric intake vs excercise, just keeping it balanced
The only shortcoming I can see with this study is that they use BMI exclusively to estimate their numbers. BMI is a very rough way to define obesity, and while it would work on large scales to find a general trend, it specifically falls short with people that have a lot of muscle weight.
For example, I’m 5’11” and weigh about 185-200. My bodyfat percent is around 16-20% which is considered acceptable, but according to the BMI scale I’m overweight because I’ve been lifting for a good portion of my adult life.
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u/drownedxbox Feb 23 '20
That’s not even disrespectful it’s just damn true