ephion comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 1: Mainstream Nutrition Science on Obesity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ephion 26 December 2013 06:40:42PM 1 point [-]

In this claim, "consume" means the number of calories absorbed by the body, and "burn" means the amount of calories used (or wasted).

You can measure you resting metabolic rate. Most people are close enough to what formulas report that actually measuring your caloric expenditure isn't terribly useful, but some people (myself included) have slower metabolisms than calculators and formulas predict.