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          9 months ago

          @DragonTypeWyvern

          you people

          Which “people” would those be?

          I thought literature.cafe was a normal instance but your comment sounds a bit troll-like? Have added a link to my comment to show what I mean.

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              @DragonTypeWyvern ha ha that link was meant as an illustration not a proof. It’s not even a scientific paper, it’s Harvard Health.

              I seriously doubt that fructose is the “root cause of obesity” like this article claims. But @AnaGram is right, all calories are not equal and the science has been clear for a long time when it comes to metabolic differences between how the body processes, say, fructose vs glucose.

              I think there are probably a bunch of TOFI addicted to HFCS who don’t want it to be true though!

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                  @DragonTypeWyvern yeah turns out I had the wrong link, it was meant to be one about how the liver processes different molecules.

                  Anyway there’s one in my other comments.

                  The way the body processes fructose specifically is really interesting and challenges the old beliefs, but you’ll learn about it sometime if it interests you.

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      And for a very short summation of the small novella I’ve written in other comments, not every calorie has the same amount of nutrition in it.

      There are non caloric nutrients in food that are absolutely vital for human health and happiness and when you are deficient in those nutrients your body will compel you to continue eating until you have met your baselines.

      Solve the nutritional problem and you will most likely go a long long way towards solving the obesity problem.

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      They don’t, there’s a million little things that depend on what you eat, but regarding weight this is how it works.

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      Yeah, the key word there is “calories out” – as in, not all calories get absorbed equally well by the body, so some get excreted. “Calories out” does not just mean burning them with metabolism and exercise. “Eat less and exercise more” is a gross oversimplification.