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 weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. But it's actually all wrong.

In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr. Giles Yeo, 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, 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.
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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 weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. But it's actually all wrong.

In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr. Giles Yeo, 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, 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.
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Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong

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

by Giles Yeo PhD.
Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong

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

by Giles Yeo PhD.

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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 weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. But it's actually all wrong.

In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr. Giles Yeo, 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, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643138275
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 12/07/2021
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Giles Yeo is a geneticist with over 20 years' experience dedicated to researching obesity and the brain control of food intake. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and assisted the pioneering research that uncovered key pathways in how the brain controls food intake. His current research focuses on the influence of genetics in our relationship with food and eating habits. He is based at the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, and is the author of Gene Eating, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. He lives in Cambridge with his family.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Calories, calories everywhere 5

2 The Atwater factor 26

3 How do we turn food into energy? 55

4 What do we use energy for? 97

5 The power of protein 128

6 The wonder of fibre 165

7 The 'ultra' in processed 199

8 Privilege and calories 232

9 We don't eat calories, we eat food 252

Epilogue 269

Appendices 273

Acknowledgements 287

About the Author 289

References 291

Index 299

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