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Hunger, weight loss and obesity | Stephan Guyenet, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Energy Balance Model and Obesity

If you put a gun to my head and told me to reduce my calorie intake by 30%, I could do it. But that's not an acceptable means to induce someone to lose weight, right? So is it theoretically possible? Yes. It's practically possible, that's a more difficult question. We're probably eating like 250 plus more calories per day on average than we did in the 70s. To have that kind of impact on a societal level, I do think it's theoretically possible.

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