Most people think that eating too much causes obesity and eating less will enable us to lose weight. Is this correct?
Influence of the Body’s ‘Fat Thermostat’ on Losing Weight The body fat percentage is controlled like a thermostat, which will determine whether or not we lose weight.
When we lose weight, our body tries to regain that weight by increasing hunger and decreasing basal metabolic rate.
Similarly, when we gain weight, our body tries to lose it by decreasing hunger and increasing basal metabolic rate. If eating too much causes obesity and eating less will enable us to lose weight, is correct, when you overfeed experimental subjects, they should consistently gain weight. Easy to prove, right? That’s what endocrinologist Dr. Ethan Sims also thought in the late 1960s in his famous overfeeding experiments….