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This could answer the CI aspect but it does not explain how so many people do not lose weight as they should when dieting. Historically, people quickly lost weight when food was cut off. The Minnesota starvation study made this clear. if people's metabolisms are actually slowing, this can lead to propensity towards weight gain.
Well, yes, but it might well be that people living in a situation where “movement” means walking between chairs have less metabolic activity than people who were out doing things. The day for most people starts with getting out of bed, sitting to breakfast, than walking to the car and driving to work than walking to the office chair, the walk back to the car and drive home where they sit and watch TV until they get up and sit to dinner.
It’s probably not helping to say the least.
And im always a bit suspicious of self-reported calorie counting studies simply because people tend to be absolutely terrible at measuring portions and thus they end up undercounting the amount of calories they are eating. Im not sure that’s what happened in Minnesota, but it’s a huge problem for diet studies.
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