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.

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    11 hours ago

    Well, since over 40% of the world is considered overweight … maybe we should have fewer calories.

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      53 minutes ago

      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.

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        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.

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        10 hours ago

        It’s a fine take. You just dislike AI and you need dopamine from online arguing.

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      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)

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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                Yeah because poor people are famously known for switching to home cooked vegan meals which naturally decreases their calorie intake.

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                    1 hour ago

                    Cost isn’t the only issue but it plays a big factor and this is a well established fact I didn’t think I’d even need to debate.

                    High calorie and low nutrition food (processed snacks, sugary drinks, fast food, refined carbs, and added fats/sugars) are cheaper per calorie than their nutrient-dense higher quality counterparts (fresh vegetables, fruits, lean proteins, whole grains, etc.).

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          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.