A calorie is a calorie. Eat too many and you get fat, no matter what the food is.
You have heard it a thousand times.
One British personal trainer decided to test it on his own body.
His name is Sam Feltham. He is a trainer, not a doctor, and this was a self-experiment, not a lab study. Keep that in mind. But watch what happened.
For 21 days he ate about 5,800 calories a day. More than double what his body needed. But he ate real, low-carb food. Meat, fish, eggs, nuts, avocado, olive oil. By the old calorie math, he should have packed on around 16 pounds of fat.
He gained about three. And his waist actually got smaller.
Then he ran the whole thing again. Same 21 days, same enormous 5,800 calories.
This time on processed junk. Sugar, flour, refined carbs, the standard modern diet. Same calories.
Completely different body.
He gained about 16 pounds, and his waist ballooned three and a half inches.
Same number of calories. Five times the fat gain. One man is not proof. But it points straight at what the calorie-counters do not want to look at.
A calorie of steak and a calorie of soda do not do the same thing inside you. It was never just calories. It is the sugar and the grains.
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