If you have ever tried to lose weight or just eat healthy, you must read this book, Good Calories, Bad Calories
This isn’t a diet book. It’s a book about the history of nutritional advice. Our understanding of food and obesity, how it’s come about and how it’s changed over the past century. I’ll be writing more in future posts but here’s what I’ve definitely taken away:
- A calorie is not a calorie. A lot of other factors matter like what kind of calorie, what kind of person, metabolism, exercise, external environmental factors, …
- Calories in does not always equal calories out. Or we are not measuring all the calories in and out correctly.
- Dietary fat does not make you fat. Fat is not necessarily better or worse than protein or carbs. It’s not necessarily equal either!
- Many of our current doctors are 100% convinced of what they know and not really willing to consider radical shifts in thinking. Like they continue to recommend eating less calories and exercising to lose weight when it’s obviously not working for many people. (Do you really lack the will power?)
More to come, but I definitely recommend Good Calories, Bad Calories.