Despite the issues people have pointed out in the reporting about the study, I’m interested to know what they discover.
Back when the big diet was low fat, I lost a lot of weight counting calories. A lot of my diet actually was sugar or sweeteners, because I have a sweet tooth. I just knew how much I could eat and still lose weight. So, it probably wasn’t an overall healthy diet but I looked great.
Recently I read a great book Why Calories Count that basically says that the only factor in weight control is calories, and it described some really wild experiments done with all kinds of weird combinations of food that point to this conclusion.
Anyway, I know that weight control and optimum health aren’t the same thing, but I do think there are a lot of people who do what I did and get a fairly high portion of calories from sugar in order to maintain a calorie limit. It’d be nice to get a broader picture of healthy eating than just slimming. Plus, if the extra sugar really makes no difference as long as calories are down, a lot of people might figure out a way to eat “healthy” that works for them and not worry so much about, say, cutting out all pleasure from food in order to be good.
