Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong
Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-counting.Calorie information is…
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Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong
A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-counting.Calorie information is ubiquitous. And we treat these numbers as gospel--counting, cutting, intermittently consuming and, if you believe some 'experts' out there, magically making them disappear. On packaged food, restaurant menus, and online recipes we see authoritative numbers that tell us the calorie count of what we're about to consume.
But it's actually all wrong.In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr. We all know, and governments advise, that losing weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. Giles Yeo, an obesity researcher at Cambridge University, challenges the conventional model and demonstrates that all calories are not created equal.
He addresses why popular diets succeed, at least in the short term, and why they ultimately fail, and