Can AI tools make meal plans that help us lose weight the right way? In a new study, a team of researchers compared AI’s meal planning abilities to those of a dietician. The results showed that AI-made meal plans – when compared to dietician plans – severely undercalculated the needed amount of calories and macronutrients like carbs and overemphasized other macronutrients like proteins and lipids. The team cautioned that teens should not solely rely on AI to make meal plans for weight loss, saying that the consistent deviation of five different AI models from nutritional guidelines recommended by health organizations could have negative effects on growing bodies.
… this is a fake problem
I wonder how much of this comes from dieting nonsense on Reddit and blogs.
intermittent fasting seems to the current trend, considering how body image/gym obssesed people are on reddit subs. r/gym will ban you for even mentioning "peds’ in any form, they dont want get called out for cheating and using shortcuts for thier weight loss.
Well, since over 40% of the world is considered overweight … maybe we should have fewer calories.
its actually biologically dangerous to lose a lot of weight at once if you way hundreds of lbs over your limit. its the same for pet dogs and cats.
Losing weight too fast can destroy your organs, so this is a very stupid take.
Lemmy logic on full display again. A user merely mentions that almost half the world’s population is overweight and could stand to lose some weight - and the response is “stupid take, losing weight too fast can destroy your organs.”
And people are actually upvoting that. Great. Just great. Good job, guys.
and think he has more downvotes than upvotes.
So not feed the troll
It’s a fine take. You just dislike AI and you need dopamine from online arguing.
If that 60% of people who aren’t weren’t occupied with working hard not to starve they might take offense to your use of “we” (Satire)
Food isn’t expensive - high quality food is. Junk is cheap which is why obesity is especially issue with low-income families. Nobody is starving.
I don’t know where you live, but where I live junk is stupid fucking expensive compared to veggies, and an increasing number of people are still overweight. A single 300-350g frozen pizza will set you back at least 6EUR, I can easily buy fresh veggies for a meal to feed a family of 4 people for 12EUR, less if you try to save money. I simply don’t buy in to the whole cost premise being the reason.
3 euros worth of vegetables almost definitely doesn’t have the same calorie content than 3 euros worth of any junk food. This is true independent of where you live in the western world.
Exactly, so obesity is not a cost issue
Yeah because poor people are famously known for switching to home cooked vegan meals which naturally decreases their calorie intake.
I am not talking about people who have easy acces to processed foods.
I don’t have exact stats nor know how big% of the world that is but people going to bed hungry and being underweight is absolutely still happening.
Maybe they should eat the other 40%. ;)
undercalculated the needed amount of calories and macronutrients like carbs
What’s the needed amount of carbs? Proteins and fats are essential nutrients. Carbohydrates are not.
You don’t actually have to “hand it” to the BS machine
Carbohydrates are required to break down proteins and fats. They’re very much an essential nutrient, just not in the quantities the old food pyramid would have you believe.
If carbs weren’t essential, a pure protein and fat diet wouldn’t outright kill you from kidney failure.
You’re confidently incorrect. You don’t need to eat carbohydrates to break down fat and protein, and a diet consisting of healthy proteins and fat has not been proven to cause kidney failure.
Your body can synthesize all the carbohydrates it needs through gluconeogenesis. There are no “essential carbs” the way there are essential fatty acids and amino acids. You can absolutely live on a diet of just fats and protein - and plenty of people do. The Inuit mostly did, and so do folks on carnivore diets today.
It might not be the healthiest long-term option, but it won’t kill you from a lack of carbs. You’re probably thinking of “rabbit starvation” which happens when you eat too much protein and not enough fat.
