“A calorie is NOT a calorie… The dietitians in this country are actually perpetrating this on us because the more you think ‘a calorie is a calorie,’ the more you think ‘well if you ate less and exercised more then [weight loss] would work.’ It doesn’t. All of the studies show it doesn’t work. Here’s why it doesn’t work: because a calorie is not a calorie. Fructose is not glucose.”
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Dr. Robert H. Lustig in Sugar: The Bitter Truth
I know a lot of fitblr/weight loss blogs don’t want to hear this shit, but we need to stop propagating the falsehood of “a calorie is a calorie” and “calories in, calories out” …especially those who use these mantras to shame and harangue fat people. If you’re going to be concern trolling people under the guise of having science to back you up, then you better actually know the science.
(via darkj-fitness)
