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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week agoI understand your point and I think it’s a difficult subject to navigate with teens. Science-based education is important to offset misinformation .
I think it’s tremendously valuable to understand what macros and calories mean, and where they come from in the diet. There’s a global obesity epidemic and there’s significant incentives for people in the health/fitness/weight management industry to muddy the waters with crash, fad, or various unhealthy diets, “cleanses”, and “supplements”. And that’s before we get to the food product industry of Nestle et al.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
My girlfriend is a dietician and she would be the first one to tell you that the obsession with macros and calories is unhealthy and teaching that to teens would just increase the number of dietary issues in their population.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I didn’t say “teach the kids to count calories”. I said “teach the kids to understand where the calories come from”. It needs to be a constructive conversation about, like you said, diversifying the food they eat and fuelling their bodies appropriately. Understanding things like when iced coffees have the calories of a cheeseburger.
There’s certainly a lot of psychological factors that go into deciding whether a client can handle calorie counting, but refusing to provide this information as part of a nutrition class enables charlatans to take advantage of ignorance, leading down a path of repeated failure.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’ll repeat again, experts in the field don’t talk about calories with the people they take care of.
Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How me lose weight if no count food?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Don’t eat more than you are actually hungry for, take the time to eat, drink water instead of all the fun crap, be active, that’s it, you might not become as skinny as you might feel pressured to be but not everyone has the metabolism for it, some people naturally have a higher or lower BMI, it’s just capitalism pressuring us into fitting unrealistic criterias.
Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Okay but like… What if I’m so used to eating a lot that I can pack down 3k cals in one go?