Researchers agree that weight change in humans depends on age, gender, height, weight, activity, caloric intake and time on a diet, but an equation that predicted weight change in humans had never been developed. As a result, the public was subjected to outrageous claims like: "Lose 8 kg in 3 weeks " And this applied to everyone. Really - what nonsense Most scientists also concurred that weight loss was governed by the first law of thermodynamics...