A recent study debunked the adage that it "takes a 3500 calorie deficit to lose a pound."
Kevin Hall, who is a researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, said that although dietitians base their recommendations on the previous claim that burning 3,500 calories drops a pound of weight, he said that following such notion is "completely wrong," CanIndiaNEWS reported.
Medical researcher Max Wishnofsky previously measured and found out that every individual has a 3,500 kilocalories or better known as calories. Theoretically speaking, he had calculated how many calories a person should burn to lose some fat. After the calculation, there's been presumption that by just subtracting 3,500 calories weekly, an individual would be able to lose one pound of weight. However, Hall claimed that Wishnofsky made some spurious assumptions.
Hall said that it's a mistake that Wishnofsky assumed that when an individual lose weight, the particular individual only lose fat tissue. Hall also said that the previous study failed to understand how our bodies react to weight loss as he discovered that when a person started to cut down calories from their diet, calories that a human body expends begins to fall.
In many years, Hall has been spearheading a research to challenge the 3,500 calorie. In fact, in 2011 he created a model, the Body Weight Planner in which it directly challenged the old, famous adage. It allows dieters to plot realistic weight loss strategy while measuring progress according to verified benchmark rather than following the theoretical calorie rule.
In the end of the spectrum, Hall concluded that there is no easy way to lose weight. Most people who attempted to lose some pounds always goes back to where they started in just less than a year. But he predominantly blames the popular, misleading adage for the weight loss failures of the many.
