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a calorie eaten.

And for that we have

really good data.

And it says a calorie

is not a calorie.

Why is a calorie not a calorie?

All right.

Let's give you an example.

Let's take an easy one.

Let's take almonds.

If you consume 160 calories

in almonds,

because of the fiber

in the almonds,

the food is not going

to get absorbed immediately.

So your blood sugar rise

is gonna be a lot lower,

it's gonna be for longer.

So what's the opposite of the almond?

Well, the opposite of the almond

would be a soft drink.

Because there's no fiber,

they get absorbed straight

through the portal system to the liver.

The liver gets this big sugar rush.

And when your liver

gets that onslaught,

it has no choice but to

turn it into fat immediately.

So, 160 calories in almonds,

or 160 calories in soda.

You tell me which is better.

For over 125 years,

we've been bringing people together.

And yet we are

continually being sold

a message contrary to the science.

...on something

that concerns all of us... obesity.

Our weight, we're told,

comes down to calories

in and calories out.

One simple, common sense fact.

All calories count, no matter

where they come from,

including Coca-Cola

and everything else with calories.

And if you eat and drink more calories

than you burn off, you'll gain weight.

Well, one thing

we need to understand,

that the food industry is really

at the heart of this problem.

We're handing the industry a big gift

in that they get to confuse the issue

by talking about exercise.

It's all about the spin, right?

So the food industry is good at

kind of taking half-truths

and then stretching them.

Food companies are interested

in selling more food.

That's their job

as a corporation.

And one way to do that

is to co-opt potential critics.

The soft drink companies

fund research in universities.

They donate

to professional societies.

And, in fact, I just saw

a new major analysis

that says that soft drinks

have nothing to do with obesity.

And the study was sponsored

in part by Coca-Cola.

We haven't heard this

kind of association before.

It's the American Academy

of Family Physicians.

They have partnered up with...

Coca-Cola, which...

You know...

Yeah, definitely a head-scratcher.

Immediately after Coke's announcement,

a group of 20 doctors who helped make up

the American Academy

of Family Physicians publicly resigned.

How can any organization that claims

to promote public health

join forces with a company that promotes

products that put our children at risk?

But not all doctors

see it the same way,

particularly those whose research

is funded by the industry.

Even though

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