although it's true people with a higher calorie intake are generally fatter.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 19:54, archived)
I don't know how you think the body works, but it uses energy, and calories are a unit of energy.
Excess sugar is converted into fat.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 19:59, archived)
a calorie is a calorie. It doesn't matter what foodstuff it used to be, the body stores the extra ones as fat whether they were fat or sugar or carbs before.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 20:02, archived)
if you eat more sugar, your metabolism increases and vice versa.
it's only the levels of fats and proteins that lead to increases or decreases in mass over a long period
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 20:03, archived)
www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole00027.htm
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 20:10, archived)