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Pittsburg, Kansas | Calories measure the energy value burned in an oven.
Saw dust would measure calories. Calories do not say what the body does with them.
For common foods we eat one thing that matters significantly is what happens to our insulin levels.
High insulin tells the system to store fat. Low insulin puts the system into fat burning mode.
Under high insulin levels the body does not take fat out of fat storage plus any excess fat beyond energy needs in the diet will go to fat storage.
Under low level of insulin the body is more adapted to utilizing fat for energy. Both body fat as well as dietary fat.
So a calorie of fat has a completely different, nearly opposite effect on metabolism, as a calorie of sugar or in other words carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates raises insulin levels. Fat does not.
A calorie is not a calorie as far as how the body utilizes it. Even though a calorie is a calorie when burned in a Baum calorimeter.
Meat protein takes most of its calories as energy just to digest and process it and has only a small influence on insulin secretions.
To lose or in other words burn body fat, lower insulin levels. In other words don't eat foods that raise it.
It really is that simple. Implementing it and avoiding the carb foods that raise insulin, sometimes not so simple.
Calories matter. What the body does with specific calories matters even more.
Edited by John Burns 2/9/2024 06:43
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