Are you saying the Adonis principles are a crock?
Of course.
Eating less than you expend will make you lose weight obviously.
But you also have to meet nutritional needs.
Another factor is staying full.
Try stay full on 500 calories of brown rice with a nice curry sauce, and a bit of chicken, a bit of veggies with some olive oil sprinkled over it, meeting the 55/30/15 ratio of Carbs/Fats/Protein,
OR
500 calories worth of Marshmallows.
You do the math.
People get fat by eating at McDonald's.
Of course they wouldn't get fat if they ate only a cheeseburger and drank diet coke.
But the name of the Spurlock movie is "Supersize Me". Abeles is critical of the movie, a movie where the take home message is that Americans are eating TOO MUCH.
One of the key factors in the movie is that Spurlock couldn't refuse when being asked to supersize the meal. This was done to show how McDonalds fattens USA.
I doubt that Abeles eats supersized Big Mac Meals on McDonald's everyday.
If I am wrong, I'll admit my mistake of course.
The point I'm making is that there are more aspects than calories to nutrition.
To even suggest otherwise is laughable.
The old school recommendations still works:
Fibers, olive oil, fat oil, nuts, unprocessed foods are all good.
Nothing beats a brown rice paella con pollo (chicken).
-Hedge
