Park's "Physics Plan" Diet

Conservation of Energy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics are probably the two most important concepts in physics that have thwarted the aspirations and claims of inventors and charlatans for decades. Someday we hope that the public will understand this.

WEIGHT-LOSS: SCIENCE CONFIRMS THE “PHYSICS PLAN“.
Atkins, Pritikin, Jennie Craig, South Beach, NutriSystem . . . all had one thing in common: they made their inventors very rich. But how could it be that every diet plan seems to work? It’s nothing but consciousness-raising; any plan will make people aware of how much they’re shoveling in. Nine years ago, however, WN came out with the “physics plan.” The plan is based on the Conservation of Energy: “burn more calories than you consume” http://www.bobpark.org/WN00/wn022500.html. Don’t be fooled by cheap imitations. On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a two year study of 800 overweight adults. Headed by Frank Sacks of the Harvard School of Public Health, the study confirmed that people lose weight if they cut calories; it doesn’t matter if the calories are fat, carbohydrates, or protein. That, of course, is the WN "physics plan."

[Robert L. Park, What's New, 27 February 2009.]

Posted on February 27, 2009 at 18.34 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, It's Only Rocket Science

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Sunday, 1 March 2009 at 02.55
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    While serving in the AF, I for a time had to help manage the base weight control program, for service members over the allowable weight for their age and height. More than once when someone insisted he/she simply couldn't lose any weight, I responded with something like this:

    "You mean to tell me that if you were thrown in the stockade and only given bread and water three times a day for several weeks, you wouldn't lose any weight?"

    The response was usually something to effect I was talking a ridiculous extreme. To which I responded that I was really talking a physiological process: If you consistently burn more calories than you take in, you're going to lose weight. And no one is exempt from that process.

    And, sure enough, calories are calories, whatever they come from.

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