Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong
Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 4 separate months, 2016–2024.
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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dp-hackernewsOct 2024Strongly recommends
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" ▶ this video
in “Exercise Paradox” · View on HN
orangepurpleMar 2023Recommends
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 ▶ this video
in “The Efficient Frontier of Fat Loss” · View on HN
dp-hackernewsOct 2021Recommends
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in “Obesity Pathogenesis: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement” · View on HN
buzzcutApr 2016Recommends
Unfortunately I can only summarize. On the starvation study it's merely one example that highlights how calorie restriction affects people. Yes, it's an extreme version, but it is different only in degree from any other calorie restriction, and when people try to reduce by X calories, it's probably a linear effect; more restriction, more of these effects. Oddly though, fasting tends not to have these effects, it's only in sustained calorie restriction, so fasting in various forms is one of the tools people can use to lose weight. As for the lowered energy output Jason Fung wrote (pg. 53 of the Obesity Code, "One major problem is that the basal metabolic rate does not stay stable. Decreased caloric intake can decrease basal metabolic rate by up to 40 percent. We shall see that increased caloric intake can increase it by 50%." If you want to learn more here are some sources: Jason Fung - The Obesity Code: [link] Robert Lustig on sugar: [link] and also here: ▶ this video Peter Attia on ketosis and fat: [link] Reversal of diabetes by diet, also Jason Fung: [link]
in “Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?” · View on HN