John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar

Re:John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar by jerf on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @09:05AM (#7224301)

But this is giving away the farm; if the way to eat healthy is a high-fat diet that cuts out the empty carbs (and especially sugar), and then you just naturally eat a healthy amount of food after that without any sort of bizarre calorie counting, that's not proof that "it's all just calories", it proves the exact opposite, that the calorie type matters a lot and conventional nutritional wisdom up to this point on what constitutes a healthy diet is dead wrong.

Which it is. But I find it bizarre that people will fall back to this defense, or, at least, I find it bizarre how many people still think this is some sort of defense, when it is in fact the exact, total, polar opposite of the position they think they are defending.

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Re:John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar by sosborn on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:57AM (#7224980)

>that's not proof that "it's all just calories", it proves the exact opposite

At this point we are just arguing semantics. If you eat fewer calories, regardless of how you accomplish it, you will lose weight. Yes, it is easier to lose weight with healthy diet.

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Re:John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar by jerf on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:14AM (#7225093)

The whole line about "it's just calories" is precisely that it does not matter what you eat, it's all just calories. If you agree that it does matter what you eat, it is a fundamentally different position, and it means that, like I said, you are no longer defending the conventional wisdom, you are stipulating the correctness of the attackers, while still confusing yourself into the idea that the original position that you have now stipulated is inaccurate is still somehow true.

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Re:John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar by sosborn on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @12:18PM (#7225597)

You misunderstood me.

You can lose weight focusing solely on calories. It is easier to keep your calories in check while eating wholesome foods for numerous reasons, but at the end of the day, the gain/loss is governed by calories.

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