Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Calories In = Calories Out = Bad Science

The Dances with Fat blog has a great post about the fallacy of this commonly held false belief.

An excerpt:

Besides which, a BMR-type calculation would be reasonable  if we were a lawnmower.  We can calculate the fuel needs of a lawnmower and then have a reasonable expectation of how much grass it can mow and what will happen when the fuel runs out.
Ready for a blinding flash of the obvious?  Our bodies are not lawnmowers.

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