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In this short clip from her talk ‘How To Think Like A Mathematician’, Eugenia Cheng explains how a whole web of interconnected factors cause us to gain fat.
Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/8emPcpfqPRU
Eugenia’s book “The Art of Logic” is available now: https://geni.us/paUfA
Eugenia Cheng is Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She won tenure in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she is now Honorary Fellow. She has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice and holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Alongside her research in Category Theory and undergraduate teaching, her aim is to rid the world of “math phobia”. Her first popular math book, How to Bake Pi, was published by Basic Books in 2015 to widespread acclaim including from the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and she was interviewed around the world including on the BBC, NPR and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Her second book, Beyond Infinity, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
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People shouldn't exaggerate the importance of metabolism for losing weight . If you are overweight and start to eat and drink the correct daily calorie intake for your age ,height and gender you will lose weight .Time is the important thing , give yourself six months or a year .
Because we eat too much.
There. I saved you the video.
Used to excercise 3 times a day and gained 20kg true story, currently I weight around 180kg while excercising daily and eating like 2 biscuits a day plus I have manual labour work and I walk daily around 40km while still gaining weight have fun with that.
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Pointless. Just eat less, that's all.
This is perfect. Calorie counting is BS
Wow people love listening to rubbish that sounds intelligent but means nothing. Want to lose weight – eat less move more. Easy
Even though Eugenia Cheng is pointing out that this is a multifactorial problem (and she is right about that), people in the comments still think it's about just in and out. (I am slim my whole life by the way.) Watch the short clip again and then watch other videos about genetics and obesity, gut microbes and obesity, fat cells and obesity, hormones and obesity, food additives/sugar and obesity, … Your anecdotal reports are not science, guys.
Eat less.easier said than done! What about cravings,?They are worse than A nagging wife.Hard to sleep on an empty stomach.
Stop eating McDonalds everyday and take a walk around the block everyday.
With all due respect, let the dieticians take care of the weight loss tips. This just seems to make excuses for all the different reasons people fail. Ultimately it comes down to disciplining oneself to consume fewer calories, nothing more. Yes, there are other factors that may make this difficult, but trying to quantify all of them is a waste of time.
And age??? Menopause?
What? Where is the full video!
Don’t blindly count calories because all foods have different caloric availability – this is the number of calories digestion can extract from a food versus the number of actual calories in the food. Every calorie might be equal, but some are more equal than others #GeneEating 🍐 https://t.co/HQj0hERmkq ' Giles Yeo
Sugar added to things that have no reason to have added sugar like pork pies, sausages by the food industry to replace the taste removed by the use of inferior ingredients and "derivatives" of meat and vegetables to provide bulk and water holding so they can sell you added water.
To attract females, like birds with their plumage.
Because matter settles duh. Get moving.
Good thing that social pressure, upbringing, emotions can never ever apply to exercise
She looks amazing!
Congratulations on losing 50 pounds!
Simple … but not easy. I know.