All of that is true…but it still doesn’t refute the fundamental principle of energy balance or Cals in vs Cals out. Lessons of history…Keys’s Minnesota Starvation studies, Aushwitz, Changi, Darfur etc all demonstrate this without a shadow of doubt.
The devil, of course … as well as the interest…is in the details. The two sides of the equation are intertwined in ways that folk who deny the reality don’t usually acknowledge