"you [sic] BMR[0] is 2-3 times higher than your all other energy expenditures"
Maybe if you work sitting in an office and never go play outside or lift weights.
Try lifting bricks or digging ditches or cutting wood all day and that BMR is just the beginning. Or climb a nice mountain or go on a hard bike ride or get nice and ripped and keep those muscles up.
In the evolutionary environment where you were shaped everybody worked outdoors and sweated. If your BMR is most of your energy expenditure, you're not living the life you're adapted to.
[0] Basal metabolic rate -- the energy you'd expend on the couch watching teevee all day.
<sarcasm>Yeah, I tried cutting trees down all day but then I got fired from my job as a software developer. I suggested that maybe we could turn the wood into paper to print the documentation on, but the documentation is all online, so they wouldn't give me a job. Then I climbed a mountain but there was no wifi up there so I missed my 3PM Skype interview for a new role. On the plus side, now the only job I can get is ditch-digger I am feeling much healthier.</sarcasm>
People living standard western lives don't have a lot of time for exercise, so diet is going to have a much bigger impact on their calorific balance. That's the whole point of TFA.
It would be great if we all had a better life-work balance and could climb more mountains, but that doesn't mean people can apply that advice to their lives right now. They can start doing some fork putdowns and head shakes.
Maybe if you work sitting in an office and never go play outside or lift weights.
Try lifting bricks or digging ditches or cutting wood all day and that BMR is just the beginning. Or climb a nice mountain or go on a hard bike ride or get nice and ripped and keep those muscles up.
In the evolutionary environment where you were shaped everybody worked outdoors and sweated. If your BMR is most of your energy expenditure, you're not living the life you're adapted to.
[0] Basal metabolic rate -- the energy you'd expend on the couch watching teevee all day.