Re:The carbs-obesity hypothesis
by baddox on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:01PM
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Are your high- and low-calorie diets both just different quantities of roughly the same proportion of foods/nutrients? If so, then it seems like you aren’t really testing the calorie count independently. A better comparison might be a high-calorie diet of “healthy” foods versus a low-calorie diet of “unhealthy” foods.
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Re:The carbs-obesity hypothesis
by simonbarker87 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:12PM
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I’ve tried two approaches. The first was just to reduce calories in all three macros proportionally and I lost weight, but I lost noticeable amounts of muscle. The second time I reduced just the carbs (still not “low carb” though) I lost the same amount of weight but retained more muscle.
I think calories in calories out affects weight, the macro breakdown affects the type of weight lost (as in muscle vs fat)
What you're proposing is testing two different variables in the same experiment. To dial in nutrition research, it's more traditional to control kcal count and test different nutritional quality, or control quality and vary kcal content.