10: Don’t Count Calories & Why Diets Don’t Work

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jonathan Bailor, author of The Calorie Myth breaks down the problems with the calorie theory of weight loss. Jonathan covers topics like why eating less or exercising more won’t ever truly solve a weight problem, how stress affects weight and clears up confusion with the often-misquoted Law of Thermodynamics.

Jonathan and I Discuss

1:45- The disconnect between technology and science
3:00- Why Calories don’t count the way we think they do
3:30- Weight isn’t a moral issue. People who weigh more aren’t lazy
4:29- The idea of “just eat fewer calories” is akin to telling those with depression to just frown less and smile more
6:45- How calories can count, we just don’t need to count them
7:15- The “Calorie Myth”
7:29- Calories in/calories out and why it doesn’t work
7:44- The role of the hypothalamus
10:55- The four laws of thermodynamics and why it isn’t as simple as eating less and burning more
11:31- Why most interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics are completely wrong
12:31- the problems with eating less
13:46- Why you’ll lose muscle and fat if you just eat less
14:16- How calories are different
15:00- The four factors of quality food: satiety, Agression, Nutrition, Efficiency
15:48- Foods that the more you eat, the healthier you get
16:05- Foods to avoid
16:38- How foods manipulate hormones
17:13- How to get your brain to tell your body to do something
19:44- How hormones signal the body to build muscle or gain fat
18:55- Why exercise alone won’t help you lose weight
19:45- Where “exercise” comes from
21:15- One step to be healthier

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Katie: Hi, I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. Welcome to episode 10 of the “Wellness Mama Podcast,” where I provide simple answers for healthier families. An interesting fact for your day, a 2010 study published in the “International Journal of Food Microbiology” found that 48% of fountain soda drinks contained fecal bacteria and 11% contained E. coli, just another on a long list of reasons to avoid drinking soda. On the o

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com. Welcome to episode 10 of the WellnessMama Podcast,
0:21.7	where I provide simple answers for healthier families. An interesting fact for your day.
0:26.5	A 2010 study published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology found that 48% of
0:32.6	fountains soda drinks contained fecal bacteria and 11% contained E. coli, just another
0:38.6	on a long list of reasons to avoid drinking soda. On the opposite end of the spec health
0:43.5	spectrum, one cup or approximately 33 calories of Swiss chard provides over 1700% of the
0:51.0	daily value of vitamin K1, and when cooked in some grass-fed butter, is also a great source of vitamin
0:56.9	K2, so skip the soda and load up on the green vegetables. Speaking of calories, today's guest is an
1:03.9	expert in that arena. Jonathan Baylor is the author of the excellent book, The Calorie Myth,
1:08.7	which is also a New York Times bestseller. His research has led him to over 10 years of
1:13.3	collaborating with top scientists. He's analyzed over 1300 studies, right over 10,000 pages of research
1:19.9	in his work, and his work has been recognized by Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Yale, and UCLA.
1:26.8	Jonathan is a top nutrition and exercise expert, and his specialty is making very complex science,
1:32.2	simple and understandable, and I'm so excited to have him here today. Welcome, Jonathan.
1:36.7	Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me, Katie. It's a pleasure.
1:40.5	Awesome. I know you've done countless hours of research when it comes to calories, and I would love to hear your take on the dichotomy.
1:47.8	We have this modern fascination with science, and I know when I write blog posts, everybody wants to know
1:52.7	what are the studies? Where's the science? But this seems to be a disconnect when it comes to what we
1:57.4	actually eat. So in other words, with most things in life, we welcome the latest advances in science
2:02.7	from our smartphones to hospital technology and across the board. And we really value science and
2:08.8	celebrate innovation and progress, but we're still following some nutrition advice from the 50s.
2:13.8	So can you explain that? It's heartbreaking. It's very difficult to explain because we line up to get
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