Preliminary Health Care Podcast

More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/11/when-you-blame-calories-you-blame.htm We’ve heard it to the point that we accept it without questioning: “It’s all about calories-in v calories-out. If you wanna lose weight, you have to eat less and exercise more.” The first problem with these sentiments, though, are that they are absolutely FALSE! Of course, this should be concerning because it means we’re all using incorrect information to try improving ourselves. But there’s another big reason to be concerned. Namely: When you incorrectly make being overweight about calories, you unjustly blame victims of such terrible information. Think about it: we believe so strongly that becoming fatter is from “overeating” and “under-exercising,” but what do these terms even mean? We define them based solely on the body-composition of the person to which we’re referring: how ever much a fat person is eating we call “too much,” and how ever much they exercise is “too little.” Ask yourself, if a fatter person