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The great calorie deception: Are food labels misleading?

2023/8/24
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Calories are a measure of energy in food, quantified by raising water temperature in a bomb calorimeter. However, not all calories in food are absorbed by the body.

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Millions of us are counting calories every day. But do we know if those numbers truly reflect the energy we get from eating?

It’s about time that we debunked the “one-size-fits-all” approach to calorie counting and unmasked the outdated methodologies that contribute to inaccuracies in food labeling.

In today’s episode, Jonathan and Dr. Sarah Berry ask: How exactly do we measure calories, and is calorie counting actually effective?

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The Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers) from the United States Department of Agriculture

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