I'm going to do some more indepth research when I get home. I've read plenty of articles by people with PhDs in areas that focused particularly on things like h

I'm going to do some more indepth research when I get home. I've read plenty of articles by people with PhDs in areas that focused particularly on things like how exercise and diet affects the body. From what I've read there is evidence to show that the old thought "a calorie is a calorie" is not true. Dr. Novella points to a study where "low-carb" was 20% of the caloric intake, and uses this study to validate that statement, however, most places I read about define low carb as much lower than this (generally about 20g which probably works out to about 7-8% or so). I'm definitely not an authority on this but I know I've seen some info that seemed really well backed (by science) that shows that there is validity to the low carb diets for fat loss (there is a difference between weight loss and fat loss).