Posts Tagged: Calorie restriction myths

Healthy Talk with Dr. Mike

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By Rob Archangel, 180DegreeHealth.com staff writer   Happy New Year Crew! Anyone looking for a little aural dose of 180? Well you’re in luck. Matt appeared recently on Healthy Talk with Dr Mike to talk about Eat for Heat and to discuss how to eat for a long, robust life. Should be a good one. Check it out today, January 2 at 1pm EST, or you can download or stream it anytime afterward at the link above. They also offer a free Life Extension Foundation Magazine, available on their sidebar. Feel free to check that out too. Catch you folks on the flip side.    

The Calorie Myth Part 3 – The Basics

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I didn’t have time to write a full-on post today, but wanted to keep our Calorie Myth series going.  Here is a video on some of the basics of the simplistic “eat less/exercise more” approach to weight loss – and why this approach is an ineffective long-term strategy with negative physical and psychological side effects…  

The Calorie Myth Part I – Raw Food Weight Loss

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“When Atwater burned foods in a bomb calorimeter… he assumed that humans could use all the energy present in a food and digested in the body.  If foods burns in the bomb calorimeter, Atwater seemed to conclude, it produces the same amount of energy value in our bodies.  But the human body is not a bomb calorimeter.  We do not ignite food inside our bodies.  We digest it, and we use calories to pay for this complex series of operations.  The cost varies…” ~Richard Wrangham; Catching Fire Tis the season for people to start making New Year’s Resolutions to lose weight.  Oh what fun!  And so, I figured what better time to do a multi-part series on the huge scientific fallacy and oversimplification that is, for lack of a better phrase… Read more »

The Calorie Restriction Myth

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Check out my eBook on how to RAISE YOUR METABOLISM, I’m not exactly a fan of low-calorie eating.  While I’m tempted just to say, “aw man, calorie restriction.  That is so dumb, that is really dumb, fo real” - I figured it would be better to seriously address calorie restriction as I see it.  Recently I wrote a summary of the importance of metabolism that should be appearing on another site soon.  In that summary I addressed calorie restriction briefly, which I have included below. The infatuation with calorie restriction is actually a fantastic example of some fragment of research taken out of context and the subtle nuances ignored – and more importantly, it’s applicability in real people in the real world unacknowledged.  Of course, when calories are restricted, everything is restricted –… Read more »