There’s one lesson to conclude from these three contradictions to current dogma: A calorie is not a calorie. Rather, perhaps the dogma should be restated thus: a calorie *is* a calorie burned, but a calorie *is not* a calorie eaten. And therein lies the key to understanding the obesity pandemic.
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Robert Lustig
Physician, Author of Fat Chance, Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains