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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
thats the easy way to look at it but it seems to be more complex than that. there are other studies that say continued exposure to certain kinds of plastics causes people to gain weight. i only eat organic cereals and try to not eat much bread. i also recently stopped using water bottles and switched to filtering my own water as well as stopping the use of plastic containers to store/heat food. i am far from fat at all but i don't like this GMO shit. its not done for health or anything, its all about profit. its not natural.
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First, you are entitled to believe and do anything you want unless prohibited by law. No one can tell you that making those choices aren't better choices as their is no downside. However, the GMO hysteria has always been proven to be exactly that. Furthermore, a huge % of the world population is starving to death as a result. Little children are dying every single day because of a silly myth started in Britain by a single man.
I've read studies that say bigfoot exists. Studies that say Cocaine is really good for you. etc etc. Studies are studies.
It's not an "easy way to look at it". Food is energy. Your body burns energy to live. You take in X amount of energy each day... you burn X amount of energy each day. At the end of the day, you either break even (or thereabouts), have a deficit or surplus.
People are done a tremendous disservice by continually being bombarded with the message "it isn't your fault". It is your fault. The USA and the rest of the world is driving itself over a cliff of self entitlement, of being special, of never being wrong where the notion of personal accountability is a thing of the past as a result because any excuse is now acceptable.
I own a gym. Our business is weight loss and getting our members results. Everyone follows the same meal plans, same workout plans and its all very basic. It's all very basic, because its a simple issue of calories in vs calories out. That's all you need to manage. Your body can't store fat by consuming less calories than you burn. That is a simple, indisputable fact. This is true of every gym, of every weight loss program in existence. No one in the fitness industry or weight loss industry (Jenny Craig etc) asks "uhm... are you using plastic containers? if so, that could be the problem" because it has no bearing on anyone's weight loss results.
EVERY diet in existence requires you to consume fewer calories than you burn no matter what the hook is. As an example, HCG is a huge diet right now and "HCG" is touted to cause weight loss in conjunction with other benefits. People seem to willingly overlook the fact that the diet also comes with a 500 calorie a day meal plan. People also remain largely unaware of the fact that this has been studied to death in the medical community and HCG has been proven time and time again to play no role whatsoever in weight loss.
Weight loss is not an abstract idea or concept where anything and everything is possible... its nothing more than the second law of thermodynamics and second grade math at work.
You can't put enough gas in your tank to drive 5 miles, then drive 5 miles and end up with a gallon left over. It's a comforting idea to those who refuse to hold themselves accountable, but its obviously not possible.