&gt; The whole point of the article is that the traditional &quot;calories in&#x2F;calories out&quot; model is wrong.<p>I think what they mean by this is that the &quot;calories out&quot; portion is what is mostly wrong (or at least, misunderstood ), not that &quot;calories in&quot; are probably the most significant factor when it comes to fat loss. They don&#x27;t seem to dispute this.