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Low-carb diets eliminate big groups of foods that most of us should probably eat less of, but there’s little to no evidence of metabolic magic.

Next time you feel like starting a fight, mention calories. And that, in order to lose weight, you have to burn more of them than you absorb.1. Duh! Captain Obvious is a Washington Post columnist!

2. Conservation of energy doesn’t apply to the human body! It’s hormones or mass or something, and calories are just an invention of the processed-food industry.3. Yes, the calories-in/calories-out math has to work, but low-carb diets affect both sides of the equation, so you can’t dismiss the effect as real but small.Everyone agrees that the macronutrient content of your diet can affect how many calories you burn and how many you ingest .

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