ATTENTION ALL GAMELIVERS:

[reno cool]

yeah, I never understood why people always bitching about calories. Calories is the primary reason we eat.

So then they were saying high % of calories from fat is bad. Ok that may be. But now they decided to change labels to enlarge the print of calorie content and eliminate the %number.

 

[Mudcat]

Barbiturates. That takes me back.

 

[Gilmartin]

It's very debatable if any of the ineffectiveness of artificial sweeteners for weight loss has anything to do with a metabolic response to the sweeteners. Needs to be studied a lot more, but my understanding is that, most likely, people make up for those calories in other parts of their diet, and I would expect the same to happen with the black coffee.

To be sure, the "if I did everything else exactly the same" is a massive "if", and I do agree that most people would modify their behavior, at least to a certain degree, to compensate for the savings in calories. That said, it is one of the simplest ways to cut calories out of one's diet, if that is the goal.