The End of Calorie Counting
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Warm-Up
It’s all good if you don’t know the answers. You will get another shot at this quiz later in the lesson.
Q1
Researchers have shown that obesity is caused by a “biological disorder” rather than “a lack of will power.”
True
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
False
Try again and don’t worry…today’s lesson will clear this up.
Q2
Researchers have disproven that the more you eat the more you weigh.
True
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
False
Try again and don’t worry…today’s lesson will clear this up.
Q3
Researchers have noted that healing the “precise and powerful biologic system that maintains body weight within a relatively narrow range” is more effective than attempting to starve that system.
True
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
False
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inSANE
Do Complex Math During Dinner & Calorie Counting is Not Supported By Science
Listen
Note 1
Calorie Counting is and always has been a theory. That theory has now been disproven.
Note 2
Calorie Counting is closer to an eating disorder than it is to an effective weight management strategy.
Note 3
Every applicable study ever conducted that considered calorie counting has disproven it.
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SANE
Enjoy More SANE Food During Dinner & Your Body Balancing Itself is Supported By Science
Listen
Note 1
It is an irrefutable scientific fact that a healthy person does not have to worry about regulating life-sustaining bodily functions 24/7/365.
Note 2
We don’t have to “decide” to take in or burn off an appropriate number of calories. Our brain will do that automatically once we heal ourselves.
Note 3
Long-term success comes from lower the “relatively narrow range” where Dr. Friedman tells us our “precise and powerful biologic system” operates.
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Quiz
Remember these? Give them one more try now that you’ve spent a few minutes going SANE.
Q1
Researchers have shown that obesity is caused by a “biological disorder” rather than “a lack of will power.”
True
Correct! In the journal Cell Metabolism, Brent Wisse, MD of the Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence at the University of Washington noted: “Prior to the discovery of the adipocyte [fat cell] hormone leptin, obesity was thought to result more from a lack of will power than from an underlying biological disorder. Now, 15 years after leptin’s discovery, a much different picture of how obesity occurs is beginning to emerge.”
False
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Q2
Researchers have disproven that the more you eat the more you weigh.
True
Correct! In 1990, Wayne Miller, PhD of the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University conducted a study involving calorie counting and concluded: “There was no relationship between energy intake and adiposity [body fat].”
False
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Q3
Researchers have noted that healing the “precise and powerful biologic system that maintains body weight within a relatively narrow range” is more effective than attempting to starve that system.
True
Correct! Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller University in New York, has demonstrated this for more than a decade and goes so far as to say that there is “something metabolically different about [overweight] individuals results in obesity independent of their caloric intake.”
False
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Support
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Celebrate
Nice job! Here’s some recommended eating and reading to help you celebrate.
Recommended Eating
Pink Salt
Recommended Reading
Recipe: German Chocolate Pancakes
