Dieting and calories

It is said that a good diet is one that has no less than 1,200 to 1,400 calories.

That’s so wrong and I’ll prove it.

The first phase of the protein-sparing diet that I recommend contains just under 1,200 calories and the calorie count can go as low as 800 to 1,000, depending on the individual.

Is this sheer madness or is it well founded? Question: Do you think that the hundreds of thousands of people who have followed this protocol stayed motionless in bed the whole time in order to adjust to the lack of calories? Of course not! They kept up virtually the same activities and expended the same amount of energy.

Let’s say that you jogged on a treadmill at a gym for ½ hour. At the end of that half-hour, the treadmill tells you how many calories you burned. Does it know what you ate and how many calories there are in your diet? Of course not! ...