[quadlock]

All calories are not translated to weight equally, the efficiency your body uses them matters greatly.

Sure dieting couch-potatoes will lose weight, but it will include losing a lot of muscle.

I believe the most well researched book on fat control is Carb-Back Loading by John Kiefer, the references chapter is 50 pages, it's terribly fascinating.

[grecy]

> All calories are not translated to weight equally, the efficiency your body uses them matters greatly.

Who cares. A beginner doesn't need to know that.

It's like telling a first time driver to worry about double-clutching the gear changes.

Stick to the basics, as the person picks everything up, they can worry about the complicated stuff that builds on.

[jamesnvc1]

Kiefer's stuff is very well cited, but many of the citations are kind of specious - he has a history of citing studies that, upon perusal, are unrelated or contradictory to what he claims.