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SantaRPidgey posted...

Sure, Gary Taubes' Good Calories Bad Calories is the go to nutrition book everyone should be reading.

If you want an anecdotal source, you can look at board 8's weight loss topic lol

I'm glad you provided a source that's actually primary literature. It's 640 pages so I'm not going to be able to read it all any time soon. That being said, I agree with the general principle that seems to be applied that 'not all calories are the same'. That's true. Here's an article from Science kind of elaborating on that in lay terms

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/02/have-we-been-miscounting-calories

The article ends, however, with the assertion that 'if you want to lose weight you have to cut back on the calories'. I see what you are saying, it can be inaccurate and I apologize for jumping on the 'what the fuck' response immediately, but cutting calories is absolutely crucial to losing weight. If you go from 4000 calories a day to 2500, you will absolutely see a decrease. If you are burning more calories than you intake, you'll lose weight. But you are right, not all calories are the same.
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