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Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.Their words
I make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.
Stephan Guyenet
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1 February 2021
From one piece Does energy imbalance (calories in > out) cause obesity? 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Common obesity is not caused by a slow metabolism: people with obesity burn more energy, not less.Their words
This tells us that common obesity is not the result of a reduced metabolic rate– a common but erroneous belief.
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This suggests that overfeeding had caused their body fat regulatory system to durably accept a higher “setpoint”.
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Body fat is biologically regulated, so losing weight provokes a starvation response that pushes the weight back on.Their words
This is a phenomenon I call the “starvation response”, and it happens because body fat mass is biologically regulated.
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In people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
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The brain, not insulin or fat tissue, is what ultimately controls the energy balance equation.Their words
However, whichever side of the energy balance equation is giving orders, the brain appears to be the commander-in-chief of the equation as a whole.
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No matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
30 August 2018
From one piece Quickly assessing the credibility of public experts 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The likelihood that someone is providing high-quality information in these domains is lower than in less controversial areas like physics or neuroscience.
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The work of Philip Tetlock, PhD and others has shown that people who have one big idea to explain everything (“hedgehogs” or ideologues) are very bad at accurately modeling the world, predicting outcomes, and recommending effective actions.
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Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.Their words
Inability to change one’s mind is a hallmark of an irrational belief system.
1 August 2018
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One thing that I think hasn’t gotten enough attention is the fact that NuSI staff, particularly Attia, paid themselves enormous salaries while they were at NuSI
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NuSI executives didn’t set their own compensation, as I and others have implied.
3 July 2018
From one piece Why the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong: A supplementary reply to Ebbeling and Ludwig’s JAMA article 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If the science isn’t settled yet, perhaps it’s not the right time for bestselling books that confidently promote the CIM and a diet based on it to the public?
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Like most diets, low-carbohydrate diets aren’t very effective against obesity in the average person, but they do have some effectiveness and they are certainly a valid tool in the toolbox.
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The question we must answer is not “can we find evidence that supports the CIM”, but rather “does the CIM provide the best fit for the totality of the evidence”.
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The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong: it does not fit the totality of the evidence.Their words
Certain forms of carbohydrate probably do contribute to obesity, among other factors, but I don’t think the CIM provides a compelling explanation for common obesity.
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