> Now if you are eating 1500 extra calories a day then your body burns, then switching diets is not the only answer, but for most people this isn't the case. T

> Now if you are eating 1500 extra calories a day then your body burns, then switching diets is not the only answer, but for most people this isn't the case. The corollary of this is that if you're running a sufficient enough deficit, it doesn't matter how "bad" the calories are, thermodynamics plays the dominant role: http://calorielab.com/news/2010/11/20/twinkie-diet-results/ http://calorielab.com/news/2010/11/20/twinkie-diet-results/ But in reality there's a lot more to "health" than just weight, so take it with a grain of salt.