Active Low-Carber Forums - View Single Post - Majority of Low-Carb Dieters are in 'Calorie Denial'

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While Slim-Fast found the results of the two surveys startling, the company believes the disconnect between consumers and doctors is surmountable and is committed to helping consumers achieve a clear understanding of the importance of calorie control in achieving long-term weight loss success.

You mean they are committed to selling us their crappy meal-in-a-can food.

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"Americans are under tremendous pressure to lose weight," said behavioral psychologist Dr. John Foreyt of Baylor College of Medicine. "As a result, people are willing to believe what defies science -- the notion that cutting carbs without cutting calories will generate lasting weight loss. The reality is, it is still important to control calories when following a low carb diet or any other type of diet."

This is really rich considering they are they ones that are in denial. They deny that something as complex as human digestion can be modeled after something as simple as burning a substance in a laboratory and measuring how much heat it gives.

Not to say that calories don't matter one bit. They do. But a lot of low-carbers can get away with eating a significant amount of calories more and still loose weight or maintain than they could when eating carbs.

They should study this instead of stubbornly insisting that it defies the laws of physics.