
Why Calories Don't Count
How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong
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Narrated by:
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Dr Giles Yeo
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By:
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Dr Giles Yeo
About this listen
AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST
Calorie information is ubiquitous. On packaged food, restaurant menus and online recipes, we see authoritative numbers that tell us the calorie count of what we're about to consume. And we treat these numbers as gospel; counting, cutting, intermittently consuming and, if you believe some 'experts' out there, magically making them disappear. We all know, and governments advise, that losing weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume.
Here's the thing, however, that most people have no idea about. All of the calorie counts that you see everywhere today, are wrong.
In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr Giles Yeo, obesity researcher at Cambridge University, challenges the conventional model and demonstrates that all calories are not created equal. He addresses why popular diets succeed, at least in the short term, and why they ultimately fail, and what your environment has to do with your bodyweight.
Once you understand that calories don't count, you can begin to make different decisions about how you choose to eat, learning what you really need to be counting instead. Practical, science-based and full of illuminating anecdotes, this is the most entertaining dietary advice you'll ever come across.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Dr Giles Yeo (P)2021 Orion Publishing GroupUseful book
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Boring
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And it’s made me reevaluate many of my preconceptions!
Thoroughly engaging narrator!
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excellent read, Dr Yeo is so good
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Remarkable
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Very interesting
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Love this audio guide
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However, occasionally the book does dip into what for most people is pretty advanced biochemistry. Yeo does his best to break it down into understandable chunks, but it can be a struggle to understand occasionally - for one of the chapters I had to skip over a section that was a little too advanced and was going way over my head. Overall a good read and has given me greater understanding of how the body works and processes food.
Complex but informative
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Interesting look at caloric availability in foods
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interesting book on science of food
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