As I’ll discuss in the next post, it’s good advice. [Eat Less Exercise More]
Well I hope that you will define ELEM very carefully in assessing it. For example, does the Hacker’s Diet by John Walker qualify as “Eat Less Exercise More”? Arguably it does since Walker advocates carefully counting your calories and being careful to eat less than your daily metabolic requirements. But at the same time, the Hacker’s Diet is a lot more specific than simply Eat Less Exercise More. As a practical matter, the simple advice to “Eat Less Exercise More” is too vague to be of much value.
And what about diets which achieve (or are claimed to achieve) ELEM indirectly? For example, the Shangri La diet. Do those count as “Eat Less Exercise More.”?
If you read ELEM broadly enough, you could simply take it to mean “Avoid diet strategies which entail regular consumption of excess calories.” Which is surely good advice but if that’s what you mean you need to spell it out.
Well I hope that you will define ELEM very carefully in assessing it. For example, does the Hacker’s Diet by John Walker qualify as “Eat Less Exercise More”? Arguably it does since Walker advocates carefully counting your calories and being careful to eat less than your daily metabolic requirements. But at the same time, the Hacker’s Diet is a lot more specific than simply Eat Less Exercise More. As a practical matter, the simple advice to “Eat Less Exercise More” is too vague to be of much value.
And what about diets which achieve (or are claimed to achieve) ELEM indirectly? For example, the Shangri La diet. Do those count as “Eat Less Exercise More.”?
If you read ELEM broadly enough, you could simply take it to mean “Avoid diet strategies which entail regular consumption of excess calories.” Which is surely good advice but if that’s what you mean you need to spell it out.