{"id":1130,"date":"2011-05-17T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T06:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2016-08-21T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T11:47:22","slug":"calories-energy-balance-thermodynamics-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2011\/05\/calories-energy-balance-thermodynamics-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Calories, Energy Balance, Thermodynamics &#038; Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 \u201cThings we\u2019ve got wronger than a very wrong thing\u201d! As the brilliant Dr Malcolm Kendrick would say \u2013 and Black-adder before him!<\/p>\n<p>Why do we say \u201ceat less\/do more\u201d? Does it work? What do the laws of thermodynamics actually say? (because it isn\u2019t \u201ceat less\/do more\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Why do we say \u201cto lose 1lb of fat, we need to create a deficit of 3,500 calories\u201d? Is any part of this equation correct? Do the 7 leading public health authorities in the UK know why they say this? Does anyone?<\/p>\n<p>What is human fat tissue? How do we lose it? i.e. how do we lose weight? (because it isn\u2019t \u201ceat less\/do more\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>And much more.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy it!<br \/>\nVery best wishes \u2013 Zoe<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23802105\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or you can listen to the talk and download it for listening later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theharcombedietclub.co.uk\/assets\/media\/audio\/Premier-2011-05-12.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Or you can listen to the talk and download it for listening later&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you can download the presentation slides <a href=\"http:\/\/theharcombedietclub.co.uk\/assets\/downloads\/pdfs\/Premier-Fitness-Presentation-201105.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 \u201cThings we\u2019ve got wronger than a very wrong thing\u201d! As the brilliant Dr Malcolm Kendrick would say \u2013 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088,1058,4,1096],"tags":[191,435,29,69,436,437,438,439,426,440,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}