It's all about "calories", right?

[ Editor's Note: Fitness author Jon Benson shared this info with me and gave me permission to share it with you. ]

Wrong.

A calorie is NOT a calorie.

Despite all the "experts" you've heard say how weight-loss is "all about calories-in
and calories-out", it's just plain nonsense.

What if you fed a group of monkeys identical calories, with the only exception being the type of calorie consumed?

Would they all gain weight at the same rate? Apparently not. Why?

>>> Not All Calories Are Created Equal.

At the Obesity and Diabetes Research Center at the University of Maryland, this
exact experiment was conducted.

Some of the monkeys grew heavier with an identical diet as their thinner counterparts.

The difference was the simple carbohydrate to protein and fat ratio. The same calories from simple sugars caused more weight-gain than the same calories from proteins and fats.

Monkeys are not the only ones. We humans react the same.

A recent study directed by Penelope Greene of the Harvard School of Public Health found that people eating an extra 300 calories a day on a very low-carb regimen lost just as much during a 12-week study as those on a standard low-fat diet.

Over the course of the study, they consumed an extra 25,000 calories. That should have added up to about seven pounds.

But for some reason, it did not.

"There does indeed seem to be something about a low-carb diet that says you can eat more calories and lose a similar amount of weight,"Greene said.

The bottom line is simply this: a calorie of "this" does not equal a calorie of "that".

This is one of the many reasons I'm not too keen on calorie-counting. I don't want to weigh all my food all the time and count calories every day...and I don't.

I eat a very simple diet -- lower in carbs and higher in protein and fat. That works for me. It may not work for you, but I promise ONE of the nutrition plans in my book will --

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>>> Why make this promise?

Because there are 53 different role models profiled. All different ages, both men and women, with different bodytypes and nutrition plans.

Meat-eaters. Vegans. Vegetarians. And everything in-between.

You see, there is no "one" perfect diet-- but there is an ideal way to eat for you and your body.

That's what I want to help you discover.

One universal truth is the calorie lie. Do not buy into the calories-in/calories-out
method of weight-loss. You'll drive yourself batty counting numbers all day long.

Once you begin to exercise and consume whole, nutritious, tasty foods, you will rarely need to "count" anything.

I tally up things here and there just to see where I'm at. But just to give you a real-life example: I have not counted a day's worth of calories in over a year.

And I'm under 10% bodyfat.

What's more, I used to be obese. So if I can do it, you can too.

See what I mean here --

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Sincerely,

Jon Benson
Creator, Fit Over 40

P.S. I know you don't really believe that you could eat 2,000 calories of sugar and
see the same fatburning benefit as you would eating 2,000 calories of whole foods.

But that's what a lot of "experts" want you to believe when you get right down to it.

Calories-in/calories-out is OUT. It's a lie.

I want you to see, believe, and live the truth --

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