Bread is CIVILIZATION

  • alleycat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Isn’t Low Carb debunked? As long as you eat halfway clean and at a deficit, you lose weight. And you don’t gain weight by eating a lot of carbs, as long as you don’t have a caloric surplus.

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      1 day ago

      Weight loss is literally calories in vs calories out. That’s it. Carbs generally have way more calories than foods without carbs. Low carb definitely works for weight loss, so I don’t know if I’d call that debunked.

      It’s really simple. But these fad diet cultures we get sucked into have made us all crazy it feels like.

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        5 hours ago

        Any restrictive diet can lead to weight loss, because you’re not allowed to eat the stuff you wanna eat, so you don’t eat as much.

        If there’s nothing special about carbs (and I don’t think there is…) that’s what I’d call “debunked.”

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          5 hours ago

          High carb foods have more calories than low carb ones by a wide margin. Which is why it works. And if it works, it is not debunked.

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            3 hours ago

            Fat has more than double the calorie density, I’m not sure what you mean by “high carb food have more calories”.

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              3 hours ago

              Well you shouldn’t go heavy on high fat foods either. Where did I say that you should?

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      1 day ago

      and at a deficit, you

      Well that’s the thing, carbs are just very calorie dense so eating cards makes it harder to eat at a deficit.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      Isn’t Low Carb debunked?

      What does this even mean? Nobody that I know of has ever asserted that low carb diets are the only way to lose weight. Low carb diets tend to reduce appetite which helps in achieving a calorie deficit, that’s all .