Not true. There's a difference between complex carbohydrates provided by fruits, vegetables meat and other unprocessed food. Simple carbohydrates like are shorter and break down faster providing less energy per food unit consumed. Complex carbohydrates are longer and take longer for our bodies to breakdown giving more energy over a longer period of time.
The same goes for rats. Give them all they can eat of bland nutritional rat pellets and they’ll maintain body weight. Give them Doritos and McDonald’s, on the other hand, and they’ll gain weight like crazy.
It should be a surprise to nobody that capitalism has optimized junk food to be as addictive and non-filling as possible.
They're very starchy and high in carbs, and very low in protein.
So you can eat tons of them and still not feel full.
If you reach satiety your body and brain won't want to eat more.
If you are sick of something, you will just switch to something else.
Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Petocz/publicatio...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01956...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01956...
It could be that potatoes make you feel full short term, but people who overeat in the first place, left to their own devices, will eat more than they should
In your first linked study for example, they say the participants were given isoenergetic portions and then saitery was measured 2 hours later, it wouldn't be surprising if that wasn't representative of longer term weight loss
Yes, but they will also get sick from malnutrition. They will also become passive, unable to fulfill their job and family responsibilities. They will also have hard time regulate their mood.
There is unstated requirement in loosing weight game that should be more prominent I guess: "while not making that person much more sick and dysfunctional"
It stops being bland once you start putting there everything you need - including some salt that you actually need.
Moreover the make you fat still improvement over past when people were getting sick from this or that missing in food. Not just because hunger, but because people did not knew what everything is needed.
The history of dietary guidelines is quite interesting in that regard, there were sicknesses that are basically forgotten by now that were due to something missing in food.
That makes massive difference in bodyweight management.
Also satiety, ability to stay active and normal mood is super important for your ability to keep bodyweight and diet. One problem with focus on calories is that it ignores other human needs and other nutrients body needs and make it impossible to keep up long term.
It just sounds nice to say “you’re fat because you eat a lot of candy” but when I was In the track team we ate at all you cam eat pizza buffet every weekend
In fact I had to consciously eat many more calories per day, in calorie dense foods, just to not lose weight and become weaker.