{"id":1136,"date":"2013-03-09T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-04-06T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:31:30","slug":"why-calories-are-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/archives\/1136","title":{"rendered":"Why calories are meaningless?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5c2fb144-7681-42db-8dad-edf0f48b341c\"<\/a>Eat Clean and Healthy for your Wellness<\/a>, when you\u2019ll be freed from calorie counting!\u00a0 You\u2019ll remain healthy and lean, whereby you\u2019ll be\u00a0 freed from being concerned about your weight.<\/p>\n

There have never been lower calorie and low fat products in the supermarkets, with some \u201clight\u201d products doubling their market share every year, yet you have higher levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes than ever before.<\/p>\n

Kate Walker of BeNiceToYou.com told us \u201cThere is a direct correlation between the invention of manufactured fats and low calorie sweeteners and the increase in obesity and diet related diseases such as type 2 diabetes. If you plot them together on a timeline, the relationship between these products and such diseases becomes very obvious\u201d. She continued \u201cLow calorie manufactured foods have had the calories removed from them by replacing the natural sugars with sweeteners and the natural fats with manufactured ones, which on the face of it seems like a good idea, but these products are so alien to our systems that our bodies have no idea what to do with them. This puts the body under stress which then creates the right conditions for storing fat.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a study published by The American Psychosomatic Society calorie restrictive diets increase the production of Cortisol in the liver, cortisol being a critical factor in fat storage in the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalories are meaningless because the way in which the calorific values of foods are determined bears absolutely no relation to the way our bodies process them. Humans break down food with enzymes in a chemical process that releases energy and, more importantly, the nourishment. What we don\u2019t do is incinerate food at high temperatures using electricity in a bomb calorimeter. Calories are simply an unreliable measure of the energy potential in our food and bear absolutely no relation at all to how nourishing the food is. All foods contain calories to one degree or another, but not all foods contain nourishment. Nourishment is important because that\u2019s the minerals, vitamins and trace elements the body needs to build and replace millions of cells that die every day. Calories don\u2019t build cells.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are low calorie foods that contain little or no nourishment and these tend to be manufactured foods. Conversely there are low and high calorie foods that are packed with nourishment and these tend to be the more natural products. So the conclusion is that it doesn\u2019t matter how many calories there are in the food we eat, the important thing is how much nourishment we are able to extract from the food. If we want to slim down as a nation and reverse the diabetes trend, we need to see our food differently. Counting calories doesn\u2019t work because they don\u2019t matter. We need to look beyond calories and see the nourishment in our food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eat Clean and Healthy for your Wellness, when you\u2019ll be freed from calorie counting!\u00a0 You\u2019ll remain healthy and lean, whereby you\u2019ll be\u00a0 freed from being concerned about your weight. There have never been lower calorie and low fat products in the supermarkets, with some \u201clight\u201d products doubling their market share every year, yet you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[9,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}