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It’s Not Rocket Science: Slim is Simple (We Just Need the Right Info!)

Today’s post is from one of our favorite Fit Bottomed Dudes, Jonathan Bailor (love him!). Author of the acclaimed weight-loss and nutrition book The Smarter Science of Slim, he is a leading expert on the science of weight-loss and health, and so we just had to have him write something for us for FBD Week! Check out all of the special dude-friendly content here.

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Believe it or not, slim really is simple when we stop letting ourselves be manipulated by myths and misconceptions about how to lose weight and get fit. This is what I discovered after more than a decade of digging into the “hard-core” metabolic science of weight regulation.

I’ve had the privilege of sharing some of this research with the FBG community and am thrilled to have the opportunity to share more of it, a lot more “sexily.” (That’s not a word, but it’s all good!)

A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to partner with several health-oriented angel investors, which resulted in the founding of a nonprofit called Slim is Simple.org. We started Slim is Simple because Americans are trying harder and harder to be healthy and fit, but ending up heavier and sicker. When we try harder, and do worse, it likely means the approach we’ve been taught is incorrect—which is exactly what all of my research shows. The nutrition information we’re being taught has been unequivocally, scientifically disproven.

The issue is that we’re not being taught simple and proven modern nutritional science. We’re being taught a disproven, decades-old nutritional theory that has led us to a world where there are more overweight people alive today than there were total people alive about one hundred years ago, and where we’ve seen a 100,000-percent increase in the rates of diabetes and pre-diabetes in the past century. We don’t use the same computers we used decades ago. We don’t fly in the same planes we flew in decades ago. So, why are we taught the same disproven nutritional theories we were taught decades ago?

Slim is Simple.org is working to change that.

Our mission is to provide free resources to educators, influencers and politicians who can use them to empower people with simple, modern and proven nutrition information that keeps us healthy and slim without counting calories. I know it might sound too good to be true, but it’s actually too obvious to be false. After all, nobody knew what a calorie was—let alone counted them—until the 1970s, and the rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease were dramatically lower then. How could counting something none of us even knew about when we were healthier and slimmer be required for health and fitness? Or think of it this way: Your great-grandmother and everyone before her didn’t know what a calorie was, yet lived in a world where being overweight was about 20 times less common than it is today. How is that possible? We’re working to help educators provide the answer.

We just released our first free first full-length animated nutrition education video. No gimmicks. No sales job. This is about learning and then living better.  

Let’s spread the word that with a little modern metabolic science, we can make slim simple again. After all, our lives literally depend on it. —Jonathan Bailor

A big thanks to Jonathan for letting us know about this cool nonprofit! Dudes and dudettes, how have your workouts and way of eating changed over the years due to research and recommendations? —Jenn

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