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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by foobarian on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:18AM (#34518491)
The thing about the calorie system is that it's extremely simple and consistent. You could get into more advanced ways to count the calories that look at the type of food, and how body captures it, etc etc but that would be an even bigger mess than modern "dietary science."

Currently the calorie count at least gives me an upper bound, and at least it's on the box and applies no matter who looks at it. How would you do better?

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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by criley2 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:36PM (#34521370)
Garbage in, garbage out. I believe "eating less food" causes you to lose weight. If you provide calorie numbers that correlate, I would ask you to demonstrate causation vs correlation, and I don't think you could do that as cleanly as you think across a broad population.

A better system? Not quite sure, but as always: criticism of current failures does not, by rule, have to come paired with suggestions for improvement.

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