Diet Math, HAES, and Banning the O Word for something just as stupid.

An article this week in Wall Street Journal questions the whole idea behind 3500 calories in a pound (pretty much the calories in, calories out theory of metabolism that naturally slender people often spout.)  This isn't much different from the Hollywood cookie cutter theory of body weight. This idea that everyone's body reacts the same despite genetics, environment, and diet history. If we are all the same when it comes to calories and the differences are merely cosmetic, then why did I...