The real truth about calories

There’s a BBC 1 series going on at the moment: The truth about... The first episode was about sugar; the second was about calories; and the third is due to be about fat. I’ve used up all my screaming at the TV with the first two, so I think I’d better skip the third!

If I did a systematic dissection of “The ‘truth’ about calories”, there wouldn’t be much left, so I’ll present seven alternative truths instead...