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Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong

Stanford Health Care · 12M views · 2015-04-23 · 1:39:37

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Stanford Health Care hosts Christopher Gardner and Robert Lustig on whether all calories are equal, with a focus on processed food and sugar. The talk questions the idea that calories in versus calories out fully explains weight and health.

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HN points to Lustig's talk when arguing that processed food changes metabolism and that a simple calories in/out model is poor.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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Nutrition & diet science
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dp-hackernews · 2024-10 · Strong recommendation

Calories are a measure of energy, NOT nutritional value. Forget calories, think utility. Some types of calories are good for you, others may as well be poison - therefore, the dose is the poison. By consuming calories in accordance with their utility you will do a better job at staying (or getting) metabolically healthy than only counting calories. TL;DR: Eat more fat and protein from natural, preferably animal, sources, and you will naturally be less inclined to consume junk calories from carbohydrates and you will quickly feel better for it. Watch this video below to understand more, for why this is the case, and why colories in v's calories out is a very poor model. --- "Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong" [VIDEO]

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orangepurple · 2023-03 · Recommendation

I would like to give you a succinct answer, but I am not as well spoken as Robert Lustig, MD, a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at University of California, San Francisco, and the author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong Presented by Stanford Health Care [VIDEO]

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dp-hackernews · 2021-10 · Recommendation

Food for thought... Sugar: The Bitter Truth [LINK] Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong [VIDEO] Does calorie counting work? (Almost never) [LINK] What The Fat (WTF) #133 Dr. Philip Ovadia| Keto "Causes" Heart Scarring [LINK] The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins [LINK] Who's zoomin' who?

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