Eugine_Nier comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Final: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2014 03:58:06AM *  1 point [-]

To recap: so taking in more calories than you burn will cause you to gain weight,

Consider the sentence: "eating more mass then you excrete (plus the extra carbon you exhale) will cause you to gain weight". It is equally (in fact probably more) true. Do you think it's helpful? Taubes's point is that your version is equally unhelpful.