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Originally Posted by ASU2003
But a chimpanzee isn't driving their SUV to the fast food place, ordering a super size meal, and then sitting on the couch for 4 hours.
Maybe at a zoo, they get a little less exercise trying to find food, but I'm sure the zoo keepers keep them on a regulated diet.
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Again, this is my point. If you unpack my rhetorical question, you get these considerations. Chimps eat a lot of carbs as a percentage of total caloric intake; so do a lot of humans. Though you will get many humans with lifestyles based on caloric surpluses that lead to health problems. Not many chimps get that way that I know of.
The problem isn't the carbs. The human body needs carbs. The problem is that the human body doesn't need a consistent out-of-control caloric surplus with no deficit in sight.
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But I think that this is a good study that isn't obvious which side will be correct. If you have 100 people eat 2,000 calories of hamburgers and ice cream, and a different group of people eat 2,000 calories of fish, fruits and veggies, I would guess the second group would lose more weight. I could be wrong if the study proves it though.
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Well, as they say, not all calories are equal.