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Re:Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy by gameswithgo on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:13PM (#17480905)
It isn't that no one believes in that model of obestity any more. If you locked people in a cage and gave them 1,000 calories of snickers bars a day, yeah they would get lean.

But what complicates the situation is that what you eat affects how much you crave food, and what foods you crave, and how much energy you have, and how you sleep, etc.

Sugar seems to be bad on all of these ancillary fronts.

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Re:Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy by emodendroket on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:16PM (#17480929)
Well, yeah, exactly. Saying that "consuming fewer calories than you expend leads to weight loss" is obviously true, but it's a little like saying "you win a game of football by scoring more points than your opponent." While it isn't wrong it doesn't tell you that much about how to go about it.
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