[ExI] Good Calories, Bad Calories

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Harvey Newstrom
<mail at harveynewstrom.com> wrote:

However, this evidence was
> posted (by another poster) because Taubes literally claims that
> "calories in and out" do not account for weight gain and weight loss.

### Does he?

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> He literally argues that carb calories are more fattening than the
> identical number of fat calories.

### Well, that is most likely true, since high glycemic index foods
appear to be stronger mitochondrial suppressants than proteins or fats
and thus are more likely to induce reduce basal metabolism and motor
activity, which would lead to a greater fat accumulation from the same
amount of ingested calories.
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 He literally argues that exercise
> will not help people lose weight.

### But this is correct - under an unrestricted feeding regimen (i.e.
the normal condition for modern Westerners), exercise does not promote
significant weight loss (there are some marginal effects, difficult to
disentangle from other influences).

Rafal