WEIGHT LOSS - Why Being a Calorie Counter Does Not Work for Weight Loss

Logic and reason to keep track of your calorie intake seems plausible, is not it? Of course you do. Unfortunately, the number of calories would be important if your body acted like an oven, like many diet gurus suggest. It's very simple suggestion of mind that does not apply to human biology. Understand the realities of calories and almost no question why weight loss requires some explanation. What we really Calories A calorie is a unit of heat. The heat is not directly useful metabolically. Once a calorie is released, there is no putting it back. Only heat can dissipate. Scientists have a very precise definition of a calorie. With some variations, the simplest way to put it is that a calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one cubic centimeter (milliliters) of water one degree Celsius at room temperature and sea level To say that you can consume calories is like saying that you can eat the heat. Nutritionists, doctors, trainers, and many other experts who should know better, mistakenly equate food calories for metabolism. This simplistic reasoning goes something like this: calories in foods you eat to provide energy in the form of calories, so you can live. Now that you know what is really calories, you can understand that the only thing they can do is provide heat. Are important for the maintenance of body temperature, but that's all. The absurdity of food calories You know how to measure calories in food? We incinerate in an instrument called a bomb calorimeter. When a substance is completely burned until nothing but charred remains are left, released all the calories it contains. A bomb calorimeter measures the amount of heat is released in the complete combustion, which is expressed in calories. Oh, by the way, the term "calorie" is commonly applied to two different sizes. One is the above definition (i.e., an increase of 1 cc of water by 1 degree Celsius). The other is 1000 times that amount - the amount of heat required to raise 1 liter (1000 cc) of water 1 degree Celsius. Technically, to be clear is that the small calorie is written with a case of 'c' below (in calories), and greater calorie is written with a case of excess (calories) 'C'. Calories see also expressed in kilo calories (thousands of calories). Thus, a calorie is 1,000 calories or kilo calories. Whatever the form of food labeling, the use of "calorie" or "calorie" is absurd to suggest that they provide you with nearly the amount of heat produced in a bomb calorimeter. The question of counting calories, as measured by the bomb calorimeter, has nothing to do with what happens to food when you eat. The main reason is that you can never, ever get all the energy from food. At best, you might get 10-20% of the potential energy yields any food in a bomb calorimeter. Sometimes you will have no calories at all. At least a dozen factors determine the efficiency with which energy harvesting really a particular food at a specific time. A ridiculous comparison Consider this: in a calorimeter of a gram of starch will produce exactly the same number of calories as a gram of cellulose, which is a non-digestible fiber. As you and I both know, starch is a source of calories of food for people. However, cellulose is not. This means that a calorimeter to obtain the same number of calories from carbohydrates equivalent quantities of potatoes celery. Obviously, her body could not do it. What is really important food Instead of comparing the metabolism of food in an oven or calorimeter is much more important to talk about what happens to the different foods that are digested, how to get into different types of cells (Beg, muscle vs. fat) and what happens to them once they are there. For a striking example of what it means example, let's compare the two almost identical digestion of sugars, glucose and fructose. After its metabolic fate is much larger in relation to their role in the diet of just keeping track of your caloric intake. In fact, these two sugars are identical caloric potential - 4 calories per gram. However, the glucose into many different tissues - especially the muscles and the brain - and never escapes fructose liver intact. The consequences of these differences are served glucose metabolism in the body, while the fructose must be converted to something else before I can do something with it. This is something else is largely of fat. In simpler terms, fructose will make you grow much faster than the will of glucose. That is why one of the biggest problems with the consumption of foods containing corn syrup high fructose is that they are very fattening. Moreover, once you understand what is really important food of all kinds, which is clearly not your calories, you will be very clear about why calories have nothing to do with obesity. Chew on this review for some time (pardon the pun), because this is the kind of thinking that will guide you to the success of any weight loss or fitness that works for a lifetime. For now, unless you have your own bomb calorimeter in the kitchen, stop counting calories until biochemical like me. Dr. Clark explains the real science behind the fat and how to prevent body fat to get out of hand in your blog, BellyFatScience.com. Understand human biology is the key to fat loss, which is the subject of the e-book of Dr. Clark, Biology fat loss. Discover why diet and exercise have little to do with the proper metabolism of fats.