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Re:Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed ... by omginternets on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:09PM (#36074753)
#1 is credibly debated. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 come from cellular and molecular biology, not nutritional science.

Nutritional science is roughly concerned with the question, "what constitutes a healthy diet?", and it has failed to produce even partial answers at every turn.

Re:Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed ... by paulddraper on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:26PM (#36074978)
> #1 is credibly debated

Please cite your source.

Just one source of many: https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3580 (2015)

> 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 come from cellular and molecular biology, not nutritional science.

These have all have nutritional studies.

For example, #7 dates back to the late 19th century, decades before molecular biology.

Re:Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed ... by omginternets on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:36PM (#36075104)
The obvious counter-example comes from the intermittent fasting literature, wherein adipose tissue loss occurs even when the net calories consumed in the IF diet are higher than in the ordinary diet. I'm on mobile, so I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to lob a few queries at Google scholar.

Another vastly replicated result you can find quite easily: low-glycemic-index diets and ketogenic diets can produce weight loss despite caloric excess.

And lastly, a reasoning from first principles reveals a prima facie credible flaw in the caloric balance hypothesis: the body is not a closed system, ergo the law of conservation of energy does not apply. More vulgarly: you can do things like "work up an appetite" or "shit excess food".

>These have all have nutritional studies.

The nutritional studies did not produce these initial findings. Without pointing to specific papers, it's hard to be very precise, but I would be willing to bet that these are either dietary studies building off of biological first principles, or replication-checks in broader studies. Both are totally fair practices, but can't be considered as an indication that nutritional science is a fruitful field.

Re:Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed ... by paulddraper on Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:40PM (#36075905)
Um, yes, calorie intake is obviously not *ONLY* factor.

If you run 20 more miles every day and eat 100 more calories, I suspect won't gain weight.

The banality of your arguments speaks for itself.

Re:Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed ... by omginternets on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:26PM (#36078645)
You clearly don’t even understand the arguments.