> Sugar is less calorie dense than fat Yes. I never said that it wasn't. > naive reductionist CICO thinking CICO is how the body works. If you absorb more ca

> Sugar is less calorie dense than fat Yes. I never said that it wasn't. > naive reductionist CICO thinking CICO is how the body works. If you absorb more calories than you burn you will gain weight. It also doesn't matter the source of the calories. We have metabolic ward studies that tell us that. > sugary persistent surplus seems to be a particular problem I agree. In fact one of the prevailing theories of diabetes is that fat molecules enter the cell and get in the way of insulin absorption. In other words, insulin resistance.