Calories shmalories

22 October 2015 - 02:31
By Andrea Burgener

Obsessive calorie counting has been the cornerstone of almost all diets ever since most of us can remember. It's the model most of us think of as being plain logical: calories in versus calories out = your weight. Simple thermodynamics, apparently.But this wasn't always the theory behind adiposity.

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