What is a Calorie?

How were calories invented?

Let’s take a carrot cake as our food product….if we were back in the day and you wanted to measure your calories in your carrot cake, you would put the carrot cake in a box then put this box in an aquarium filled with water, so you have the aquarium and the box with the carrot cake. You would then light the carrot cake on fire inside the small box and would measure by how many degrees the aquarium increased in temperature. So we are just measuring the heat that is created when we burn the carrot cake.

That is how we measure calories, by how much heat is generated when we burn a food.

So, if we put three avocados in the same box, we might get the same temperature increase in the water, so you could say the carrot cake and these three avocados have the same amount of calories, but the thing is, the calories measurement does not actually tell you what is in the food, it is just measuring energy that dissipated when burnt it.

it is not telling you that the carrot cake is going to lead to big glucose spikes, inflammation, increased insulin levels and aging faster, whereas the avocados will keep you steady and feeling better.

So two people can be eating 2000 calorie per day diets, one person can be eating in way that keeps glucose steady with fewer cravings, better mood and not super hungry all the time. The other person can be eating just glucose spiking food, where they are more likely to be hungry constantly, increased cravings and brain fog.

So calories are interesting, but they are not everything. We need to learn more about the molecules in a certain food. If you focus on lower glucose spiking foods we are much less likely to feel hungry by balancing our hunger hormones which will support fat loss and increase energy levels.

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