How to Make Smaller Brains

I’ll give you some insight into my thought process.

I’ve spent most of the morning reading weight-loss studies, learning (among other things) that if you give women at Curves more food than they can burn off, they’ll still lose weight and body fat, and will have reduced waist sizes.

These were obese, sedentary women whose resting energy expenditure was measured at about 1,300 calories a day, on average. They were fed 2,600 calories a day, 55% of which was carbohydrate. And if I’m reading the tables correctly, they still lost, on average, about 7 pounds in 14 weeks … while doing a Curves workout program.

Amazing.

Even more amazing: Some of the other women in the study, who were allegedly eating just 1,200 calories a day, gained weight. (Let’s be adults and admit that it’s hard as hell for anyone to eat 1,200 calories a day for any…

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