Why Calories Don't CountGiles Yeo
Why Calories Don't Count
by Giles Yeo · first published 2021
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There's this great book 'Why calories don't count' by Dr Giles Yeo. It discusses how the human body processes food and extracts energy from it - and how current calorie labels on food items don't account for this process. Highly recommended.
on “Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories” ↗Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong by Giles Yeo It's a good, and gentle, introduction to the biochemistry and thermodynamics of digestion, and the history of calorie estimates. https://www.amazon.com/Why-Calories-Dont-Count-Science/dp/16...…
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗Unfortunately I never look at the calories on the label as I only look out for salt and proteins. However, you can make the calculations based on the numbers I gave in my other comment - which are taken from Why Calories Don't Count from Dr Giles Yeo.
on “Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease” ↗I just think, and so does Dr Giles Yeo—author of Why Calories Don't Count—if you've heard of him, that advising people to eat more healthily would be more productive than telling them to start counting calories. Even if we're talking about losing weight. Quoting from his book:…
on “Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition” ↗