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Re:Diet hacker data point by robchez on Monday November 08, 2010 @04:06PM (#1884006)
I'm sorry but in the Health and fitness community this has been disproven time and time again. Someone can fix their sleep and eat at their bmr with good foods and still lose heaps of weight. See good calories bad calories by Gary taubes
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Re:Diet hacker data point by niels_olson on Monday November 08, 2010 @07:25PM (#1884713)
Basal metabolic rate is something developed in hospitals for bed-ridden patients on total parenteral nutrition. It is the calories you burn just staying alive. If you, a healthy person walking around, eats at your BMR, you will, definitely, loose a heap of weight. However, the BMR for the average human is quite low.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

Also, on brief review, Taubes appear to thoroughly misunderstand the issue on a variety of levels. I'm going through more of his material, if I am mistaken, I will report my error.

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Re:Diet hacker data point by niels_olson on Monday November 08, 2010 @10:10PM (#1885126)
On further review, I stand by my original statement: Taubes thoroughly misunderstands the issue.
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