Calories In = Calories Out? Exploring The True Science Behind The Calorie & The Real Truth About Fad Diets.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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BenGreenfieldFitness.com/countingcalories
3 March 2022
Calorie information is ubiquitous.
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. And many of us treat these numbers as gospel: counting, cutting, intermittently consuming, and, if you believe some “experts” out there, magically making them disappear.
We all know, and governments advise, that losing weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. Here's the thing, however, that most people have no idea about: All of the calorie counts that you see everywhere today are WRONG.
In Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong, my guest on today's podcast, Dr. Giles Yeo, who is 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, why they ultimately fail, and what your environment has to do with your bodyweight. Once you understand that calories don't count, you can begin to make different decisions about how you choose to eat, learning what you really need to be counting instead. Practical, science-based, and full of illuminating anecdotes, this is the most entertaining dietary advice you'll ever find.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-What's a calorie?....
-The A-B-C equation of measuring calories in food...
-The problem with Atwater's factors...
-What's a DIT value and why does that matter...
-Did we get it right when it comes to labeling our food?...
-Why we're terrible judges of calorie counting...
-Advice for a good macronutrient ratio with minimal ultra-processed food in the diet...
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Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Giles Yeo or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/countingcalories and one of us will reply!
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, |
| 0:04.2 | the problem with portion sizes is it doesn't, to my mind at least, |
| 0:08.8 | reflect the everyday reality of how much people eat. |
| 0:12.8 | When you eat a meat-based protein, it's going to have a different |
| 0:16.0 | thermic cost of digestion compared to like a vegetable or a cereal or a legum-based protein, right? |
| 0:20.8 | This is the bottom line, right? You walk into any supermarket |
| 0:23.0 | because the industrially processed has this economies of scale, |
| 0:25.6 | then long shelf life. So the tragedy of it is this. |
| 0:28.6 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
| 0:40.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.2 | Alright, before we jump in, a couple of things. A big summit coming up in San Diego. |
| 0:55.8 | If you want to come join me in San Diego, it's May 20th through the 22nd, 2022. |
| 1:00.5 | It's called the P3 summit, the personal peak performance. |
| 1:04.9 | See what they did, their personal peak performance summit. |
| 1:07.3 | And basically, just as it sounds like it is a summit designed for |
| 1:12.9 | laypersons and professionals alike to learn everything that they need to know |
| 1:17.0 | about how to maximize mind, body, and spirit performance. |
| 1:21.4 | It's got an amazing expo. The venue is this tropical hideaway, right on the beach of the pool, |
| 1:27.5 | in a spa, tons of exports in the fields of performance and physiology and psychology and coaching and nutrition. |
| 1:34.0 | Biohacking technology is going to be super cool with a very cool exhibit hall. |
| 1:38.0 | So anyways, if you want to go, just go to bengreenfieldfitness.com slash P3. |
| 1:42.9 | Ben Greenfield Fitness.com slash P3. And again, it's May 20th, 22nd. |
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