Time has an interesting article on experts, their studies, and their tendency to be wrong:
Experts and Studies: Not Always Trustworthy
Anyone who’s spent anytime looking at diets won’t be surprised. Low-fat, high-fat, low carb, fibre, exercise: all have vast seas of conflicting studies.
Gary Taube’s excellent book Good Calories, Bad Calories is an interesting walk through some of the science and processes that shape this issue in the weight loss and health fields. We blogged about it here: Diet and The Philosophy of Science which opened with the following suggestion:
“As strange as it sounds, if you want to lose weight, it is worthwhile to learn something of the philosophy and practice of science.”
And InnerPlate.com is built to that philosophy: find your own evidence in your diet history. Trust your results, and find what works for you. InnerPlate.com is uniquely built in it’s focus on commitment periods, weeks, and returning feedback on your efforts across these different periods. Once you start, everything is driven by feedback and awareness and commitment generated by that feedback.
The longer InnerPlate.com has run, the more important this concept – trust only your results- has become to us. And the results aren’t just weight loss, but ability to stick to the losing weight, do so consistently, and do so without too much hunger. They are all related, and strong feedback allows you to tune your diet to optimize all three- results, consistency and comfort.
As we finish the next version of our site, this will be our central focus – only trust your results. YOUR results. Not mine, not theirs. There will still be the blog, and information and ideas, but it will be there to help you find your path and will focus on finding the path, rather then suggesting the path.
