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Dr Jason Fung - The Useless Concept of Calories

Barry7879
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Boom! I'll just leave this here 
https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-useless-concept-of-calories-50831730cc81

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-useless-concept-of-calories-50831730cc81
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^^This.13
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Why are you leaving it here?26
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That was a waste of 4 minutes.....
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I stopped reading at Fung41
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He centers his argument around the body not counting calories and the different digestive paths for different foods, but dances around the question of whether the body ends up getting the same amount of energy from different foods of the same caloric content (hint - it does). The body doesn't measure things or do any sort of math; this is true but meaningless. Different foods are broken down different ways; also true and not completely meaningless but at the end of the day the different paths provide the same energy with the same caloric input.31
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Where's "The Useless Concept of Dr. Jason Fung?"50
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Boom! I'll just leave this here
https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-useless-concept-of-calories-50831730cc81
OK. We've all seen countless derp articles like this posted in countless threads. Do you have an opinion, or did you look up the most controversial topic you could find in order to provide yourself with some entertainment tonight?50 -
That was a waste of 4 minutes.....
You actually bothered to click the link?
I'm not interested in anything Fung has to say. He's a woo-spouting crackpot and is a laughingstock amongst evidence-based nutrition/physiology experts.
It was humorous when he popped into the ISSN (International Society of Sports Nutrition) Facebook group. He was absolutely crucified in there.36 -
That was a waste of 4 minutes.....
You actually bothered to click the link?
I'm not interested in anything Fung has to say. He's a woo-spouting crackpot and is a laughingstock amongst evidence-based nutrition/physiology experts.
It was humorous when he popped into the ISSN (International Society of Sports Nutrition) Facebook group. He was absolutely crucified in there.
No *kitten*.
Did not click and feel pretty confident I didn't miss anything useful.13 -
Omg, saw “Fung”, and just came for the drama...
I’ve got my eye on you, thread. I expect to be entertained.
Seriously though, the guy is such a joke.29 -
Boom! I'll just leave this here
https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-useless-concept-of-calories-50831730cc81
Why not sweep it up and throw it in the garbage.23 -
Now I know Fung.1
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OMG, is Fung the guy who periodically creates troll accounts on here and rants about how calories don't exist and we're all morons?? Tell me he is.32
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Alatariel75 wrote: »OMG, is Fung the guy who periodically creates troll accounts on here and rants about how calories don't exist and we're all morons?? Tell me he is.
OMG, Fung is Shouty Guy! You are a genius!26 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »OMG, is Fung the guy who periodically creates troll accounts on here and rants about how calories don't exist and we're all morons?? Tell me he is.
I LOL'ed.8 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »OMG, is Fung the guy who periodically creates troll accounts on here and rants about how calories don't exist and we're all morons?? Tell me he is.
Does Fung know Stephen Hawking? Shouty Guy (love that name for him BTW) claims to know him.9 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »OMG, is Fung the guy who periodically creates troll accounts on here and rants about how calories don't exist and we're all morons?? Tell me he is.
Is the article in all caps with crazy slurs?8 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »OMG, is Fung the guy who periodically creates troll accounts on here and rants about how calories don't exist and we're all morons?? Tell me he is.
Is the article in all caps with crazy slurs?
Does it contain references to Dr. Feinman?5
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