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Old August 13th, 2004, 03:15 AM
marengo
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Default Can a low-carb diet fail if you take in too many calories?

jk wrote:

| This is an interesting issue. First of all if your fear is eating
| too much fat, that's not the problem. You can eat 5000 calories of
| fat a day, and I guarantee you it will run right through your body
| and you'll lose weight.

Sorry, but that's science fiction. Fat is metabolized at about half the
rate of carbohydrates, but too many fat calories will cause weight gain
also.

Where in the world did you read or hear that fat calories "just run right
through the body?" If only it were true!
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