What in the actual

victoriarunner3572
victoriarunner3572 Posts: 56 Member
edited November 25 in Health and Weight Loss
This was on my google newsfeed
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-03-high-energy-breakfast-weight-loss.amp

Will humanity ever solve the riddle of weight loss?!?! I’m so lost it’s making me question the scientific process completely.

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,260 Member
    edited March 2018
    Controls and quality of study?

    Both frequency and size of each meal changed between the two groups. How do you differentiate whether the change is because of the tapered meal sizes vs the fact that you have fewer meals?

    Are the meals isocaloric and of similar macro composition? Were the deficits similar? Are there activity and or exercise differences? Was the weight loss and body composition change similar? What was the relative adherence level?

    etc

    You SHOULD question the scientific process because the current process is pushing the publication of multiple relatively irrelevant, non definitive, and non significant studies cluttering the landscape and making it difficult, especially for the lay person, to discern what is actually worthwhile, relevant, and important.

    I have NO CLUE whether this is a good study or not. But yes, my first question is: how do you decide whether it is the reduction of meals from 6 to 3 vs the tapering of the calories between breakfast, lunch and dinner given that you only have two groups?

    ETA: I see your other thread about losing belly fat. Thus I understand and echo @AnvilHead 's answer to you. What you need to lose weight is a deficit. So worry about creating that. The rest is (relatively speaking marginal) optimisations.
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