Shocking New Discovery Not Shocking At All!

So, let’s cover what we already know, OK?

- Carbohydrates are bad.

- Too much fat makes us fat.

- Lean protein is good.

But maybe all of that is bunk, because science has finally produced a study to tell us what we should have known all along:

The key to weight loss is eating fewer calories than you expend. Big surprise, right? And yet the world seemed pretty interested in study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

So what does that mean? Well, it’s true that some foods are healthier for us than others. That has to do with vitamin content, what kind of fat they contain and how much dietary fiber is in them.

But if you ate only ice cream and steak, but burned off more calories than you took in, you’d still lose weight. You might not be super-healthy – but that’s because weight is only part of the puzzle in a healthy lifestyle. Believe it or not, there are plenty of skinny, sedentary people who eat crappy foods, just as there are lots of healthy, active overweight people.

So when it comes to weight loss, the rules are pretty simple — burn more calories than you take in and the weight will (over time) come off. But if you’re interested in a healthy lifestyle, you’ll have to pay more attention to what you’re getting in those calories and how you burn them off.