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Because your body's digestive system is a lot different from a bomb calorometer,
the calories listed on nutritional labels are at best a rough estimate of how much
energy a food will provide inside your body. So, the standard model of calorie
counting starts to break down as soon as we start counting calories!
The bottom line is that while it is important to be aware of number of calories in
the food you eat, know that this information is only a rough measure of how the
food reacts in your body.
In general, if your goal is weight loss, optimal health, and/or reversal of aging,
you will want to eat food that is as fresh and unrefined as possible. Food that is
highly refined (like just about all packaged food bought at grocery stores, and
some restaurant food) will pretty much always cause you to gain more weight
than the same number of calories from food that is natural and unprocessed.
Beyond the fact that the amount of energy a food produces in your body is not
Breakdown #2: Whether or not eating a certain food causes the body to store
its energy as fat depends on many factors
always the same as the nutritional label suggests, there are many factors beyond
the number of calories that determine how eating a certain food will affect you.
These include, but are not limited to:
 How much food you are eating at that time
 What other foods you are eating at the same time
 The time of day
 The level of glycogen stores in the body
 Proximity to exercise
How much you eat, and when you eat it, has a powerful and obvious effect on
how food affects your body chemistry and whether or not you gain or lose weight.
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