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Why Calories Don't Count

How we got the science of weight loss wrong

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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 we 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 Dr Giles Yeo, 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 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 read. Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Weight Loss & Weight Control Healthy Diet Nutrition
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A joy to listen to, this book has helped inform my journey to being healthier. Highly recommend!

Fascinating and funny in equal measure!

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Struggled at times to follow due to extreme depths of knowledge, but carried on for the entertainment and know hows along the way

Really got a grasp of the entire book by the end, emphasised by the story telling which brought research to a real time environment

Extreme knowledge + quirky entertainment = this book

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Pretty well written and the science stuff is impressively well explained. One point that irritated me was the bit of made-up history involving corsets: they did not go out with WWI! Corsetry in one way or another was around until the 1960s, just the materials, shapes and combinations of garments changed. It simply became fashionable to look skinny as opposed to buxom some time around 1920.
The title of the book is click-bate, but it does not make the book less enjoyable.

nonsense history but legit nutrition info (seems)

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Calories don't count in spite of I have been counting calories and eating healthy food.

Everything.

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Loved it it. Very useful and very well explained. Please persevere through the complexity of chapter 3. The rest is a delight.

Useful book

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