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Interesting insulin-as-currency metaphor. The calories/weight rant is a bit misguided but the rest is good
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“Your body just doesn’t give two flying f***s about calories. It’s not the common currency. Here’s the bottom line truth. ‘Calories’ is NOT a physiologic concept, just as ‘weight of food’ is not a physiologic concept” d30.co/2E0JEkq
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How is it misguided? Calories are a think we made up by setting food on fire. Body don't care about calories.
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It’s a measure of energy, so still makes sense as a basic way to analyze biochemistry equations This is like saying lift and drag aren’t the currency of flight because birds don’t think that way. Calories are bad as a currency for diet management, not as an analysis concept.
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So "eat real food, mostly plants" basically. And in fact, googling, I see the full phrase is "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" & my biologist wife says 'not too much' (calorifically) is still an important 2ndary metric.