Count Your Blessings – Not Your Calories

For years you’ve been wrongly told that: “To lose weight, eat less and exercise more. “Calories in, calories out.” “A calorie is a calorie.” These gems of conventional dietary wisdom aimed toward controlling weight are simply not true. All calories are far from equal. For example, 1,000 calories of baked goods are not the same as 1,000 calories of, say, meat, vegetables or olive oil. When it comes to calories, I suggest you forget that you can count at all… It is true that extreme calorie reduction (e.g., starvation) will result in weight loss. It is also true that when the macronutrient (carbohydrate, fat, protein) composition of a diet is held constant but total calories vary, lower calorie intake can achieve weight loss (as well as create hunger and misery). But striking differences develop when the relative proportions of macronutrients within those calories are varied, so that a diet of 1,000 calories per day of one macronutrient composition may achieve the same weight loss as another diet of 2,000 calories per day of another composition. Carbohydrate content is the variable that determines whether a dietary approach permits weight loss or not. Clinical research has already disproven the notion that all calories are equal. Studies have demonstrated that if calories are kept constant these are the results. Slashing carbohydrates but leaving fat and protein results in substantial weight loss. Cutting fat that leaves a preponderance of c...
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