Drew from DietTired.com

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• Riayn commented on It's Easy to Eat Right and That's a Fact!
  You are right Barry, sugar doesn't make you fat, however it doesn't fill you up either. Therefore if you eat foods high in sugar, you won't stay full for long, thus you eat more and more. That is the danger of sugar. However, eating foods containing fat, you will feel full after a small amount of them and stay fuller for longer, thus consuming less calories than if you ate the high sugar, low fat foods and then went back for seconds and thirds trying to feel full. Yes, people should watch their calorie intake, but the general public are...
• Trainer Shauna commented on It's Easy to Eat Right and That's a Fact!
  Exactly! Weight gain is caused by an excess of calories regardless of where they come from. If I eat 1000 calories worth of Snickers per day and nothing else, I'll lose weight (although I'd feel terrible). If I ate 3000 calories of chicken breast and broccoli, I'd gain. Eating for health and eating for weight loss aren't necessarily the same thing....
• Jody - Fit at 52 commented on It's Easy to Eat Right and That's a Fact!
  I agree with calories in, calories out BUT, I have seen a big difference in the way my body looks based on the make-up of those calories. When I changed the foods that made up my daily food program, even though calories were similar, my body made a big about face to looking leaner & better. So, Barry, maybe you are a lucky one that can eat anything you want & not gain weight. BUT, me, I exercise very hard, I eat healthy 85-90% of the time to get the results I get. Eating like you but for the calories...
• T. Kallmyer commented on It's Easy to Eat Right and That's a Fact!
  Come on Drew, hang in there....we need you to stay and bring "balance to the force"..LOL...
• MJ Doyle from "S.O.S. Your Life!" commented on It's Easy to Eat Right and That's a Fact!
  I too had believed the FACT that a calorie is a calorie, until I read Steve Pavlina's blog where he conducts a 30-day raw food challenge. He wrote a detailed log every day and although he ate more daily calories than before the challenge, he lost weight and increased muscle endurance (he was not selling anything either). It's an interesting read. I don't think anyone can say we know all there is to know about food and its effect on the human body....