A (mostly) Marketing and Ideology-Free Guide to Fitness & Nutrition in 2021

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2021-07-14 20:30:04

What's the 'state of the art' in weight loss/fitness? I'm an everyday pleb who wanted to return to being in shape after a covid lockdown break of gaining weight, so I will go through a very casual tour of some fitness and obesity research, mix in some anecdotes, all content that I've found with the help of a basic decision tree algorithm filtering a scrape of primarily 2021 research data to seperate the signal from the noise, then take the average of whatever I find to avoid all the marketing hype and ideology in nutrition and fitness. At the end I will put together a program and try it, see what happens.

Consider this merely a Medium-tier poor quality blog post but with 90% less filler and advertising, and I will sometimes point to a single study then in the same paragraph discredit single studies so take with grain of salt. Spelling mistakes and poor grammar/editing will be prevalent because I had 1.5 weeks to write this up in my spare time which is not so spare.

Summary: Avoid ideology or moralizing of food choices, eat when hungry, drink when thirsty unless heavily sweating, eat whatever you want as long as you meet minimum daily macronutrients (10% protein, 10% carbs, 10% fats), control your calorie intake and avoid supplement marketing or cherry picked nutritional studies instead take the average of all these studies (which is what I did for this article).

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