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Blunder of Counting Calories for Weight Loss - (abstract) - When created the model of counting calories as a method for weight loss or to prevent weight gain, the weight loss scientists and the entire weight loss industry didn't know that metabolic waste (faeces, urine, sweat, breath, etc.) contains calories. It is difficult to comprehend how it is possible to make such a blunder, but a little analysis will explain what caused such a blunder. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
Two Models of Counting Calories for Weight Loss, Weight Gain and Obesity - (abstract) - The general population is unaware that two models of obesity (two models of weight gain/weight loss) are based on counting calories. One model is “A calorie is a calorie” (abandoned after 2002), and the current model, “Calories In - Calories Out", sometimes referred to as (CICO)” is the new model of weight gain, weight loss, and obesity introduced after 2002. Both models, the “a calorie is a calorie” and the “Calories In Calories Out (CICO),” look the same at first glance, but in reality, they are different from each other. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
A Calorie Is A Calorie and The First Law of Thermodynamics - (abstract) - The fact is that at the time of creating and promoting the model of “A calorie is a calorie,” weight loss scientists and the entire weight loss industry didn’t know that metabolic waste (faeces, urine, sweat, breath, etc.) contain calories and that was the reason that obesity scientists and other people involved in weight loss science believed that weight gain and weight loss is explained by the model based on the principle of the First Law of Thermodynamics. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
Calories In - Calories Out (CICO) and Flaws in Theory of Energy Balance to Lose or Gain Body Weight - (abstract) - Around 2005, it was realized that a significant amount of energy in food intake leaves the human body as metabolic waste like faeces, urine, sweat, breath etc. which confused them, but another theory was quickly invented. It was “Energy Balance Over a Period of Time” (calories in – calories out over a prolonged period.”). This theory is widely known as “the energy balance”, which says that weight loss occurs because of a state of negative energy balance and that weight gain occurs because of a state of positive energy balance. ...... The questions are; When is the human body in a state of negative energy balance When does the body expend more energy than what it takes in? Is it when no single calorie is left in the digestive system? Is it when the body is in a state of negative energy balance when there is no digestible content (food) left in the digestive system, and at this point, it is when the body “draws upon its energy stores” (literarily, bite own fat adipose tissue... self-cannibalism ...?) Or is it that the human body is in a state of negative energy balance when there is 1kcal calorie left in the digestive system and at this point, the metabolism starts to “draw upon its energy stores”? Or is it when 5kcal is left in the digestive system, when 10kcal, 50kcal, 500kcal, or when there is 2000kcal? ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
Low Carb Model of Obesity - (abstract) - Eat right, not less, was the main rule of the Banting and Dr Atkins diets. According to Banting and later on, dr. Atkins diet, eating right, means restricting sugary nature and starchy food (bread, rice, and potato) in favour of the food rich in fat and protein. ... The main diet of the majority of the world's population during the Banting era was bread, rice, and potatoes. In the same period, most of the world's population was lean. Particularly among children and young people, obesity was almost non-existent. Nevertheless, the Banting diet was still fashionable, and medical professionals did not criticize it at that time. .... At the time of the Banting diet, the Surgical Weight Loss Industry and Pharmaceuticals-Weight-Loss Drugs Industry didn’t exist. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
The Transition of Low Carb Model of Obesity into Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity (CIM) - (abstract) - As when no one noticed the transition from "A calorie is a calorie" to "Calories In Calories Out (CICO). Until now, no one noticed the transition from the Low Carb Model into the Carbohydrates-Insulin Model (CIM). .... Before the Carbohydrates-Insulin Model of Obesity, a condition called diabulimia was non-existent. (Diabulimia is a condition when people with type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need or stop taking it altogether, hoping to prevent weight gain or to lose weight.) ... The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity (CIM) is the only cause of diabulimia and is the only cause of the epidemic proportion in the prevalence of diabulimia among people affected with Type 1 diabetes. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
Keto Diet versus Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet versus Banting and Atkins Diet - (abstract) - The Keto Diet introduced for weight loss by the founders and promoters of the Carbohydrates-Insulin Model of Obesity is different from the classic Therapeutic Ketogenic diet. Apart from advocating restriction of Carbohydrates, like the Therapeutic Ketogenic diet, it also advocates for limiting overall food intake. ... The purpose of the Classic Ketogenic Diet was to treat epilepsy, not obesity. There wasn’t ground to restrict overall food intake. ... The Keto diet aims to treat and prevent obesity, which is why, in addition to restricting carbohydrates in favour of fats and proteins, it also advocates limiting overall food intake. ... In reality, the Keto Diet is just the Classic Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet based on the Calories In Calories Out (CICO) Model of obesity. (Classic Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet + CICO = Keto Diet). ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
The Harms of Eating Disorders Industry - (abstract) - At first, the background for eating disorder treatments was, "a calorie is a calorie". At that time, people involved in the eating disorder industry didn't know that metabolic waste - faeces, urine, sweat, exhaled breath, etc. have calories. ... Like the academics in the weight loss industry, people in the eating disorder industry believed that every single calorie in food uptake, if not spent on basal metabolism or burned through physical activity, will be converted to fat mass. They didn't question the model of obesity, like "a Calorie is a calorie", "Calories in calories Out", or the insulin model of obesity, etc. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
The Real Cause of Diabulimia - (abstract) - Diabulimia appeared for the first time at the very beginning of the 21 century (Circa 2002)The conditions today known as diabulimia were unheard of until the beginning of 21 century. ... (Read the full text of the research article.)
The Harms of Health at Every Size (HAES) Paradigm - (abstract) - In the past, the fat activists believed, and the majority of them still today believe, that they could achieve weight loss by restricting calories (restricting calories in food uptake alone or combined with increased activity) but that the sacrifice would not be worth it. They aggressively hinder any talk about calories and weight loss/weight gain, thus obstructing the truth that obesity scientists and medical science, in general, didn't know that metabolic waste contains calories. They believe that an overweight person will not get obese as long as he maintains a present level of physical activity and food intake, directly promoting the belief that a person gets obese because he overeats... (Read the full text of the research article.)
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