Jen...just don't survive cancer to die of heart disease!!!! Calories are not just calories. If that were really true I'd be living on all the bad things that really taste good to me. There seems to be an inverse law of taste and eating satisfaction. The more you like the taste of something (for me it's something that has fat in it) the worse the actual contents of that thing are for you. I used to be a card carrying member of the "We don't need no stinking vegetables group" Give me a piece of greasy fat laden prime rib any day... that was the old me. I shudder to think what the walls of my arteries looked like. And the disease cofactors that went with that lifestyle