Have you noticed it? There is a bunch of information on the Internet about "calorie types."
I've seen an article that actually classifies the calorie types. This person would have us believe that there are fat calories, carbohydrate calories and protein calories. Another warns you of the woes that may befall you if you don't know your "calorie types."
We are talking about people who are doing serious time in la-la land here.
Calories are not things. You can"t see them and you certainly can't eat them! What is a calorie then" It is the energy required to raise the temperature of a gram of water 1 degree Centigrade.
Since calories measure energy, talking about types of calories is as senseless as taking about types of inches, or types of pounds.
We can however, talk about things like the amount of energy in food. We can also talk about the amount of energy you burn when you perform some task, such as walking, raking leaves of shoveling snow.
In both of these cases, we would talk about the amount of energy involved using the word "calories."
Some foods are packed with more energy than others. In the same way we expect a bag holding a pound of feathers to be much bigger than a bag holding a pound of coal, we expect for the same number of calories, the pile of lettuce to be much bigger than the pile of grease dripping french-fries.
The different caloric facts about food and activity are at the heart of some diet programs. They can also make a big difference in our "life after diet." This is because these caloric facts play a big role in whether or not we feel 'satisfied' after we eat. This is actually a topic too complicated to cover in this article.
But we can note that one of the factors that go into feeling "satisfied" is the volume of food we have eaten. Clearly if we can eat more food while taking in fewer calories, we are more likely to feel satisfied while at the same time, be less likely to gain weight.
To recap then, we now know that there's no such thing as types of calories and that calories are a measure of energy in a food or burned by an activity.
And the game for the person wanting to lose weight is to eat fewer calories per day than they burn in doing their daily tasks. - 15255
I've seen an article that actually classifies the calorie types. This person would have us believe that there are fat calories, carbohydrate calories and protein calories. Another warns you of the woes that may befall you if you don't know your "calorie types."
We are talking about people who are doing serious time in la-la land here.
Calories are not things. You can"t see them and you certainly can't eat them! What is a calorie then" It is the energy required to raise the temperature of a gram of water 1 degree Centigrade.
Since calories measure energy, talking about types of calories is as senseless as taking about types of inches, or types of pounds.
We can however, talk about things like the amount of energy in food. We can also talk about the amount of energy you burn when you perform some task, such as walking, raking leaves of shoveling snow.
In both of these cases, we would talk about the amount of energy involved using the word "calories."
Some foods are packed with more energy than others. In the same way we expect a bag holding a pound of feathers to be much bigger than a bag holding a pound of coal, we expect for the same number of calories, the pile of lettuce to be much bigger than the pile of grease dripping french-fries.
The different caloric facts about food and activity are at the heart of some diet programs. They can also make a big difference in our "life after diet." This is because these caloric facts play a big role in whether or not we feel 'satisfied' after we eat. This is actually a topic too complicated to cover in this article.
But we can note that one of the factors that go into feeling "satisfied" is the volume of food we have eaten. Clearly if we can eat more food while taking in fewer calories, we are more likely to feel satisfied while at the same time, be less likely to gain weight.
To recap then, we now know that there's no such thing as types of calories and that calories are a measure of energy in a food or burned by an activity.
And the game for the person wanting to lose weight is to eat fewer calories per day than they burn in doing their daily tasks. - 15255
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