[TW: HN Trigger as Haes right now] Literally things that taste proteins that aren't proteins make you fat

There's also the "a calorie is not a calorie" when it comes to comparing fat / pure sugar / carbs / protein. [1][3]

Calorie content printed on foods is done by calorimetry not by bodily uptake. [2]

And research suggests it is important how you eat foods in combination. Even the simple process of drinking water with food will increase your calorific uptake, just ask any dairy farmer; they give water with dry feed for that reason. Fibre, wholewheat and fat will give you less bodily calories than the same calories of sugar.

I'm not advocating any special dietary regimen but time and time again the research points to : each your food with plenty of fresh vegetables, particularly leafy greens - for iron, fibre, calcium - and the rest will pretty much look after itself.

If you want to keep up with research then http://www.reddit.com/r/advancedfitness is a good place to keep tabs on.

[1] http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/a-calorie-is-not-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter

[3] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/899S.full

Kill me now.

A Big Mac weighs 215g but has only 25g of protein. Add the french fries and coke and you basically have a whole bunch of carbs and fat.

Even their ice creams don't contain much protein. A large McFlurry with Oreo's is 381g but has only 15g of protein (and 85g of sugar).

Even? Even the ice cream?

Those words don't go in that order.

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