Because they take steroids they can defy the first law of thermodynamics? How does that work?
eat 1500 calories of only little debbie’s and I guarantee you won’t lose weight.
If someone eats 1500 calories a day of Little Debbie snacks, but burns 3000 calories a day, they will lose weight. They won't be very healthy, but they will lose weight.
We have been snowed by the diet industry that told us that the way to lose weight is to eat high carb and low fat. That a calorie is a calorie, with no differences. You can see how well that worked.
The diet industry tells us all sorts of things. They're as ignorant about nutrition as most others. A calorie is a calorie. We know that to be a fact. We also know the best way to lose weight is to burn more energy than you consume. Same as it ever was.
I have a PhD in Naturopathic Medicine and was underwritten by an MD.
Calories are different in the way that they are processed. What blood levels they effect and how the body stores them. It’s not all thermodynamics. When one eats and what they eat in certain times are also a factor. A person can chow on 1500 calories in one sitting, not eating the rest of the day and they will not lose weight. I saw it in my practice. Once they split it up and graze, they will. Same calories.
Perhaps a little study of nutrition is in order. Start with a Pediatric diabetic diet. Then we’ll talk about a calorie just being a calorie.