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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And here's an article regarding a Stanford and Yale study that says it's still about calories and not about carbs: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-srr040303.php
Dieting is easy: burn more calories than you consume. That's it. Simple formula
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The point of the article is that this Harvard study says it's not so simple:
"The study, directed by Penelope Greene of the Harvard School of Public Health and presented at a meeting here this week of the American Association for the Study of Obesity, found that people eating an extra 300 calories a day on a very low-carb regimen lost just as much during a 12-week study as those on a standard lowfat diet.
Over the course of the study, they consumed an extra 25,000 calories. That should have added up to about seven pounds. But for some reason, it did not.
"There does indeed seem to be something about a low-carb diet that says you can eat more calories and lose a similar amount of weight," Greene said. "
Everyone understand the laws of thermodynamics w/r/t dieting. Apparently, however, it appears that a calorie is not a calorie, at least as far as our body processes fuel.
