McDonald’s is a solid part of my diet (mostly double cheese and sometimes chicken sandwich, never sodas). I’m in best health I’ve ever been.
The gold standard is large scale human randomized control trials (RCT). All of it shows that calorie balance (with sufficient protein), and strength training is all you need for a healthy system. Everything else is cope or people trying to sell you snake oil.
Go lift and count your macros. Do this for 30 days you’ll see night and day results if you’re just starting out.
> Go lift and count your macros. Do this for 30 days you’ll see night and day results if you’re just starting out.
You're talking about your muscles, which tells us nothing about symptoms such as cancer and anxiety. Your anecdote doesn't even approach the questions raised in the study.
Hes also talking about a whole diet. Making sure that he gets everything he needs and in the right proportion. He's getting exercise.
This is miles away from "I only eat processed food" that some people have moved too. Some without even realizing how much processed food they are eating.
Nonetheless, you can count macros and lift to your heart's content but if your diet includes lead paint chips your physical and mental health will ultimately suffer. I'm not saying that ultraprocessed foods are as bad as lead paint chips, just that this line of reasoning falls short of addressing the concerns raised in studies on ultraprocessed foods.
I like how you picked lead paint and not doom scrolling on your phone while sitting on the couch instead off going out and getting exercise and being social.
God forbid our own industry hold up a mirror and admit we might be part of the problem.
It seems that you really want this to be about exercise. It isn't. Don't get me wrong: every minute doomscrolling on your couch will certainly take years from your life; somebody would have done the science but they died already. But, yet again, this is entirely tangential to the article.
The issue with RCTs is that you can only run them under tight conditions for so long on humans, so it's difficult to measure long-term outcomes like lifespan.
(Not to disagree with you on exercise. All data seems to point towards exercise being the first lever people should look to pull---as opposed to nutrition issues that people will have endless debates about---in terms of improving health.)
Exactly, CICO seems like a great approach until you realize it means counting calories for the rest of your life. I think keto is the way for me. Eat to satiety, exercise, live life with an even energy level.
The gold standard is large scale human randomized control trials (RCT). All of it shows that calorie balance (with sufficient protein), and strength training is all you need for a healthy system. Everything else is cope or people trying to sell you snake oil.
Go lift and count your macros. Do this for 30 days you’ll see night and day results if you’re just starting out.