re: Study of Biggest Losers finds that the body wants and will fight to be Fat

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the grilled chicken salad has 3 servings of crouton and 4 servings of dressing on it. In other words they fail to see the hidden calories.

But if you take most people to the supermarket and tell them to go get food for a really healthy meal, they will grab fruit, veggies and a lean meat. Nothing wrong with that. Its everything else that fricks them.

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i agree with this.

However, they might not realize that a good high-fat, high-calorie olive oil and vinaigrette (sugar free of course) dressing on that salad is good for you and helps satiate cravings.

Or that "lean meat" isn't necessarily better for you (and your weight-loss goals) than fatty meat (e.g., eating skinless chicken breast over a fatty skin-on thigh isn't necessarily good).

Or that eating a bunch of today's fruit, which is loaded with sugar, can help keep you fat, even though it's still better than juice and obviously much better than sugar-added food and drink.

it's those kinds of subtleties that people often don't know about.