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Originally Posted by Rathji
Losing Weight != Eating Healthy
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No one said it does. The point is they are 2 different things although lower weight would mean you are healthier no matter how you go there.
Although you do bring up a good point. If that person lost 50 lbs would he not be healthier simply because of the weight loss no matter what he/she ate to get there?
What this and many other studies are trying to show (the twinky diet was the first that I was made aware of). Is that those to who claim to know how to lose weight (personal trainers and other such fairy tale tellers) tell people that the only way to do it is by only eating egg whites, raw veg, tuna, and whey protein shakes. And that any food that you once liked to eat is evil.
The problem is that skinny people dont know how to lose weight. They read some skinny nutritionists book about weight loss and they tell people what they have read. Yet they have never done so on their own. The only personal trainer I would ever trust is the Fit to Fat to Fit guy cause he actually knows what it means to lose weight.
No one is saying its a health lifestyle, the point that this study and others are trying to make is to debunk all the snake oil personal trainers who say you have to eat healthy to lose weight.
You dont have to eat healthy to lose weight. Maybe it would be better if people lost the weight first and then chose to change to a healthy lifestyle because
obviously losing weight by eating healthy is winning the war on obesity.