Ethics prevent a real study where you lock the fatties in a cage and accurately measure the calories eaten.
Fatties lie like a pro when it comes to dieting.
Fatties lie like a pro when it comes to dieting.
Not all calories are the same. I myself lost almost 40lbs on the keto diet (~200 to start, now around 160lbs). 31, male, sedentary IT worker. NO EXERCISE. I eat everything except carbs (fruit, beer, anything with sugars).
This is unlike in low-carb diets, where fat must be converted to a fuel (via gluconeogenesis) before cells can use it as energy, and this conversion itself takes energy.
Effectively, alcohol reduces the benefit of low-carb diets but doesn't necessarily increase the insulin response as would a high-sugar diet.
Beer has quite a bit of sugar, but hard alcohols do not.
http://www.thespartanwarrior.com/post/6355061720/lowcarbvsal...