Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
by yummyfajitas on Friday March 04, 2011 @06:27PM
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You're refuting something he never claimed.
From the original post: "There is no significant research that shows adding exercise to an overweight person's lifestyle will significantly reduce their weight - typically just increases their appetite."
I'm guessing because that's not the case?
If you take as given the cals in/cals out model (as Taubes does, in an attempt to refute it via reducto ad absurdum), they do.
That's great. There is also research that shows that acceleration due to gravity at sea level is 9.8 m/s^2, but that has little to do with what the OP said, which is that "exercise tends to increase people's appetites." You're refuting something he never claimed.
"He never, in his entire blog post, mentions the fact that the fat person is also eating 7 extra strips of bacon each day."
I'm guessing because that's not the case? You're begging the question by showing that his claims don't work out according to the calories in/calories out model.