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Why calories don't count : how we got the science of weight loss wrong

Yeo, Giles2021
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Calorie information is ubiquitous. On packaged food, restaurant menus and online recipes we see authoritative numbers that tell us the calorie count of what we're about to consume. And we treat these numbers as gospel; counting, cutting, intermittently consuming and, if you believe some 'experts' out there, magically making them disappear. We all know, and governments advise, that losing weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. Here's the thing, however, that most people have no idea about. All of the calorie counts that you see everywhere today, are wrong. Dr Giles Yeo, obesity researcher at Cambridge University, challenges the conventional model and demonstrates that all calories are not created equal. He addresses why popular diets succeed, at least in the short term, and why they ultimately fail, and what your environment has to do with your bodyweight.
Author:
Yeo, Giles, author
Imprint:
London : Orion Spring, 2021.
Collation:
368 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781409199724 (pbk)
Dewey class:
613.25
Local class:
613.25
Language:
English
BRN:
3073902
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