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It's literally not. The human body is much more complicated than that. Repeating this mantra is never going to help anybody.

The most important thing is for people to fix the kind of food they consume so their appetite (hormones) self-regulates. Were people thin in the 1960's because they were counting calories?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/debunking-the-calorie-m...



From the article, which does also mention the second law of thermodynamics.

> Saying that weight gain is caused by excess calories is true, but meaningless. It tells you nothing about the actual cause.

Most likely people were thin in the 60s because they consumed less calories then we do now.




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