CICO is Lies - Dr Noakes

[Hammerer]

@JibberJim

Experiment - have 20 people, lock them all in a room, feed them all the same calories, and force the same activity on them, to maintain their weight.

Everyone is different, everyone needs variations of energy to survive , it would have to be 20 clones in a room .

@JibberJim

feed them all the same calories

Impossible to check without a destructive test of that item in a lab , even 2 identical sized apples could have different amounts of sugars and calories depending on growing conditions

@JibberJim

and force the same activity on them, to maintain their weight.

Would need strict controls on work output

@JibberJim

People increased their weight all sorts of different amounts, including none at all, the bodies ability to vary it’s CO is huge, fidgeting, simply a higher temperature, all sorts.

You really dont need a controlled experiment to prove that

@JibberJim

but the CICO line is annoying, it’s obviously true on some level,

Its not true just “on some level”, its actual #sciencefact , laws of thermodynamics

@JibberJim

but as a useful measure of how to prevent or “cure” obesity it’s completely useless.

Finally, and only because you cannot accurately measure in (and out isnt easy) hence as a nutrition coach you start at a point and through trial and error and behavioural changes get someone to make better choices which inevitably reduces CI. Measuring CI, even inaccurately, is a tool to use to get people to realise what is going in, many people easily forget that extra slice of cake. The biggest issue in obesity is psychological and thats where changes need to be made so they can get to CICO or to lose weieght CI < CO (but not by too much)

I again refer you all to The Facts Thread