Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781643138275)

A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-counting.

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. But it's actually all wrong.

In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr. Giles Yeo, an 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.

Once you understand that calories don't count, you can begin to make different decisions about how you choose to eat, learning what you really need to be counting instead. Practical, science-based and full of illuminating anecdotes, this is the most entertaining dietary advice you'll ever read.

Author: Giles Yeo
ISBN-10: 1643138278
ISBN-13: 9781643138275
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/18/2021