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#605 - Ben Carpenter - What Science Actually Says About How To Lose Body Fat
Modern Wisdom
Controlled Feeding Study
In controlled feeding studies, people are locked in a room and fed precise amounts of certain foods to see exactly what happens. For example, there was a meal frequency study which would have been,. I think say 50 years ago now, and they would feed people who would be described as morbidly obese. They were fed 600 calories per day via liquid nutrition. So it's like skimmed milk, I think cornstarch, some other things, like a not very tasty drink. But you can do that, and you will see people lose ridiculous amounts of weight. And no one is really saying that you can't lose weight under the right conditions. What we're saying is, when left to
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