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education begin. Here's your host, Danny Lennon. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. It's

episode 50 today and I wanted to talk about the concept of caloric density.

And there's a number of issues related to caloric density, and we could go deep into a lot of

that stuff. But I'm going to try and keep it brief to some kind of few practical points that you

can take away. Now, this is an important concept for a number of reasons,

but manipulating caloric density of your meals can be just an excellent way to remain in a calorie

deficit, if that's your goal, whilst not avoiding, but at least mitigating the hunger that usually comes with dieting, and it just makes

that dieting phase a bit more bearable. So first, let's start maybe with getting clear on exactly

what caloric density is. And as the name suggests, it's essentially just how many calories are in a given weight of that food.

So, for example, a food of low calorie density has a low number of calories per gram of that

food, while a more calorie dense food will have a higher number of calories for that same gram

weight, right? So when we're talking about the question of

how can we be in a calorie deficit

without feeling ravenously hungry,

it really ties back to,

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