Peter Attia· MD
first and foremost calories are always the problem but when you have excess calories and then you start rebalancing these macronutrients is when you get into trouble
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first and foremost calories are always the problem but when you have excess calories and then you start rebalancing these macronutrients is when you get into trouble
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but I'm also talking about this through the lens of Common Sense and the truth of it is if if you subside on a diet of tic tacs you're going to eat a lot more than a thousand calories of them because they're not satiating and they're junk and they're Hollow so I want to be very clear that the primary input is total energy but it is also impacted by many other things including diet quality processing and macronutrient distribution