Fashionable Nutrition Myths: A Calorie is a calorie... is a calorie?
Myth: A calorie is a calorie ... is a calorie
It’s a lovely idea ... The one that says something along the lines of: "It doesn't matter where your calories come from, because all calories are created equal". The idea that 500 calories of chocolate will have the same benefit to your body as 500 calories of fruit and vegetables.
Imagine a diet-reality where all you had to do was worry about how many calories you ingested each day. "My threshold is 2 500 calories. If I eat less I lose weight, eat more and I gain weight". I could have a piece of cake for breakfast and a burger and fries for dinner every day and still lose weight!
When you see it written like that it doesn't seem sensible does it?
HOW CAN a calorie of pure sugar be the same as a calorie of fresh broccoli? Sure, they contain the same amount of ENERGY (which is what a CALORIE is - a unit of energy) but these two calories can contain VASTLY different amounts of NUTRIENTS.
So while you may adequately supply your body's energy needs eating cakes and burgers and sodas all the time, you are moving further and further into a state of malnourishment because your food lacks vitamins, fibre and minerals.
No! All calories ARE NOT created equal ...
… except in the truest sense of the idea. Calories all contain the same amount of energy. But some contain the things that will enable you to do something with the energy, and some don't.
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