The “authorities” all agree. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated in 2010, forcefully proclaims its key recommendation: “Control total calorie intake to manage body weight.” The Centers for Disease Control2 exhort patients to balance their calories. The advice from the National Institutes of Health’s pamphlet “Aim for a Healthy Weight” is “to cut down on the number of calories . . . they get from food and beverages and increase their physical activity.”3 All this advice forms the famous “Eat Less, Move More” strategy so beloved by obesity “experts.”
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