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> The idea that there are types of foods which make you gain weight is incorrect.

I'm sorry but you are wrong. Calories-In and Calories-Out might be the main proponent, but it is just not the whole story. And you can find tons of research on it.

A link to a recent one, done by Harvard Medical School: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/bch-ldc11121...

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He didn't say he ate a ton. He said he eats pizza and doesn't get fat. Well... I agree with him, I ate whatever I wanted for a few months but just half of what I usually eat... lost 7-8kg in 3 months. I was still eating pizza

Woah, that’s a huge difference. For those reading, the study claims that participants on a low-carb diet (20% carbs) burned 250 calories more per day than those on a high carb diet (60% carbs), while eating the same amount of calories as the high-carb dieters.

To be fair to me, though, the study doesn’t say that specific foods make you gain or lose weight. It says that an overall trend in one’s diet does.

I was thinking more in terms of how the general public seems to think “if I eat salad, I will lose weight” and “if I eat fried chicken, I will gain weight”, which I still don’t think is correct. Sorry if I wasn’t very clear about hat.

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