{"id":473,"date":"2015-04-01T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-04-01T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T02:17:09","slug":"just-eat-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/01\/just-eat-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Eat Less"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or so says New York Times columnist Aaron E. Carroll<\/a> (Professor of Pediatrics):<\/p>\n

We\u2019re eating too many calories, but not necessarily in the same way<\/a>. Reducing what we\u2019re eating too much of in a balanced manner would seem like the most sensible approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, superficially, it seems right: after all, we do tend to gorge.\u00a0 Yet, having a wife with a weight problem and having watched her not eat her head off, this is all entirely too simplistic and disappointing.\u00a0 Speaking as a software engineer, you can’t just measure what goes in one end and comes out the other, even making allowance multiple destinations (exercise, defecation, etc) for those calories; you have to ask if the processing is a constant or a variable<\/em>, and in at least this column Carroll is treating it as a constant.\u00a0 Yet evidence is just beginning to accumulate that the stomach flora can influence how calories are processed (covered earlier here<\/a>), and the amount of sleep can influence how your gut is working as well, discussed here<\/a> (paywall) and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, sure, eat less if you’re feeling tubby.\u00a0 But don’t expect that, or even regular exercise, to fix you up.\u00a0 Keep an eye on the research if this concerns you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or so says New York Times columnist Aaron E. Carroll (Professor of Pediatrics): We\u2019re eating too many calories, but not necessarily in the same way. Reducing what we\u2019re eating too much of in a balanced manner would seem like the most sensible approach. And, superficially, it seems right: after all, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}