The Flaws and Harms of Weight Loss Treatments
First published in 2004 - Last edited in May 2022 by Luka Tunjic. © All rights reserved.
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According to obesity and scientists, the model “a calorie is a calorie” is based on the First Law of Thermodynamics principle. The First Law of Thermodynamics principle is that the total energy of a closed system remains constant, even if it is converted from one form to another.
The main fallacy of the model “a calorie is a calorie” is that the human body is not a closed system because some amount of caloric value in food intake leaves the human body with metabolic waste (faces, urine, swath, breath, etc.)
The First Law of Thermodynamics, known as The Law of Conservation of Energy, doesn’t say anything about human body weight gain or weight loss. It simply states that energy in a closed system is a constant, and it cannot be destroyed or created; only it can be converted from one form to another.
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According to obesity scientists/researchers, the model of “A calorie is a calorie” is based on the principle of the First Law of Thermodynamics that is by many people understood that questioning the model of “A calorie is a calorie” implies the questioning of the First Law of Thermodynamics.
Questioning the model “A calorie is a calorie” is not questioning the First Law of Thermodynamics because the first Law of Thermodynamics does not explain weight gain or weight loss. Obesity, weight gain, and weight loss are supposed to be explained by the “A calorie is a calorie” model.
Citing the First Law of Thermodynamics in the contents of weight gain and weight loss can and should have only one purpose, and is to describe and explain the model of “A calorie is a calorie” and not to explain the biological process of body mass (weight) gain or body mass (weight loss) loss.
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.
The fact that some amount of caloric value of the food intake ends up in the face, urine, sweat, and breath imply that the human body is not a closed system makes it impossible to explain the body weight gain and body weight loss with the model of “A calorie is a calorie,” Scientists have realized that it was wrong to create a model of weight gain and weight loss based on the principle of The First Law of Thermodynamics - The Law of Conservation of Energy.
A few studies and research papers are pointing out that some obesity scientists for a few years after 2002 didn’t know that metabolic waste contains calories. The very likely reason for that is that when someone from the scientific establishment realized that faeces (and the rest of metabolic waste like urine, sweat, breath, etc.) contain calories, he was confused and embarrassed, and he didn’t talk about it to other scientists. It was more comfortable to pretend that he always knew that faeces contain calories.
The fact is that obesity scientists are silent about the huge error of the model of “A calorie is a calorie.” The general public is not aware that the model “A calorie is a calorie” is abandoned by obesity scientists.
Most of the general population don’t know what the calorie is, but they knew that food contains calories because they have been told by various sources (nutrition labels on food products, scientists, articles in newspapers, Tw series, etc.), but no one told them that faeces (and the rest of metabolic waste like; urine, sweat, breath, etc.) contains calories. They don’t know that faeces contain calories because no one told them. They believe what they have been told, and the only thing they have been told is “that every calorie in food intake if not spent for basal metabolic rate or physical activity will be converted into fat mass and stored in fat tissue (adipose tissue)” for late use. No one told them that the human body excretes calories.
A rare incidence of Anorexia was known (mostly among medieval saints) before the introduction of “Calorie Counting,” but the epidemic proportion of Anorexia is caused first by the model “a calorie is a calorie” and later by the current model of “Calories In Calories Out (CICO).
The life-threatening eating disorder Bulimia was unknown to any previous generation in human history. The old (abandoned) model of “a calorie is a calorie,” and the current model of “Calories In Calories Out (CICO) is the sole cause of bulimia incidence.
Obesity researchers and the rest of the weight loss professionals have abandoned the model of “A calorie is a calorie,” but they didn’t abandon their belief about the cause of obesity.
Instead of informing the general public of the fallacy of the “A calorie is a calorie” guided by their belief on they have created a new model of obesity called, “Calories In Calories Out (CICO)” that perfectly comforts their belief and at the same time, in the eyes of general public look identical to the old model.
The new model (Calorie IN Calories Out – CICO) has even more theoretical fallacies than the old one. Read more
A few studies and research papers point out that many obesity scientists for a few years after 2002 didn't know that metabolic waste contains calories. The very likely reason for that is that when someone from the scientific establishment realised that faeces (and the rest of metabolic waste like urine, sweat, breath, etc.) contain calories, he was confused and embarrassed, and he didn't talk about it to other scientists. It was more comfortable to pretend that he always knew that faeces contain calories.
Most of the general population don't know what the calorie is. Still, they knew that food contains calories because they had been told by various sources (nutrition labels on food products, scientists, articles in newspapers, Tw series, etc.). But no one said to them that faeces (and the rest of metabolic waste like; urine, sweat, breath, etc.) contain calories. They don't know that faeces contain calories because no one told them. They believe what they have been told, and the only thing they have been told is "that every calorie in food intake, if not spent for basal metabolic rate or physical activity, will be converted into fat mass and stored in fat tissue (adipose tissue)" for late use. No one told them that the human body excretes calories.
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