Originally Posted by
OBoile
Exactly. I literally said in an earlier post: And redlude97 agreed with that statement. No one is taking an issue with someone choosing IF as a means of controlling calories if that is the way they find works best for them. We're taking issue with the idea that there is any significant evidence that it is, in some way, inherently superior to other methods.
Since there's no one here opposing that, I'm pretty sure that's not your issue. See below.
Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Wandering around the internet causes me to wonder if perhaps a good bit of the IF controversy is because some of the study results include pretty overt cheating on the part of the subjects. I.e., reported calories in/calories out/weight change don't make sense. So far, I haven't found a 24/7 monitored study.
Did you know there are no U.S. medically approved studies that show marijuana works? Nevertheless, the people that use it and have been using it for years already know the answer that question. Similar with the aforementioned performance enhancing drugs. Where's that documentation? Still, you'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to deny their effectiveness.
The scientific method is great, nobody's disputing that, but when it comes to health and fitness not everything supported by a trial is foolproof. Despite millions of dollars spent and decades of analysis and testing results there are still people that are resistant to certain
FDA approved drugs, and sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.
In the end, people believe what they want to hear, and will always find a way to ignore, deny or go against what they don't like and choose not to accept.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.