Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong

A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-counting.

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 ...