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Permanent Metabolic Damage

The idea that the body can undergo metabolic damage from dieting has been around for many years.   The most recent incarnation came from Layne Norton.  He claimed, based on hundreds of emails, that he had clients that were either not losing fat or weight on 1200 calories or, better yet, gaining weight.

The fact that 50 years of research contradicts this was irrelevant to him.  As a self-proclaimed anti-guru, Layne engaged in every guru game to dismiss the facts.  Why?  Because money was on the line.  Science only matters to him (and others) when it doesn’t hurt the bottom line.

But the fact is that literally every piece of data over 5 decade suggests that his claims are false.  The truth of the matter is that people claiming to be gaining weight on low calories are not eating low calories.  Rather, they are mis-estimating their calorie intakes.  We all told Layne this. … Keep Reading