When is a calorie not a calorie?

Is a calorie a calorie, or not?

An interesting read.
But I miss some points which I will add here.

First, the human body is not like a car, you don´t dump food in it and it will burn the food and win so and so much energy..or work a certain ammount of time.

The body can decrease and increase its metabolism,this is why some people can stay alive and work on 800kcal daily while others eat 3000 and more calories and have not even an extra ounce of fat on their frame.


Also...the calorie of white rice is digested differently from the calorie of parboiled or whole rice.

Same with the fructose-glucose sirup in soft drinks and the same ammount of glucose-fructose from fresh fruits.

Just look at the glyx/glykämic index.
The higher the numbers, the faster it will push your blood sugar levels up.

White polished rice will rise your blood sugar fast...and as fast it will again drop.
Parboiled rice is not much different to white rice, except that it contains more minerals and vitamins through the parboiling that pushes the vitamins and minerals from the bran and outer layer of the rice kernel deeper into the grain before the bran is polished off.

Those minerals and vitamins help to make parboiled rice a healthier choice, beeing less harsh on the ups and downs of the bloodsugar.

Nothing is different between those two..except that one has more micronutrients and helps the body to digest the calories in a more bodily friendly way.


Worth some thought, don´t you think so?


The sugar in soft drinks is like a wild rollercoaster ride..up and down and whooops...

Fruits have fiber, vitamins,  minerals and micronutrients that will give your body nourishment and long lasting energy...even when the sugar in fruits is a simple sugar and scientists told us it will go fast in the blood and just as fast will drop us again from the sugar high.

Fruits deliver fast energy, but they don´t drop you from a cliff.


Calories without micronutrients will make the body belief that its starves, therefor storing more fat and lowering the metabolism 


Tests with rats have shown that those feed part of their calories with sugar water will gain weight even when they have the same calories and exercise like other rats who are feed complete foods.


Those rats on a sugar drop will also get nervous, hysteric, agressive if they can not get their sugar water and will, like junkies, gulp down big ammounts of their allowance when they are given back the sugar water....

Digestion is a complex system

The body knows from a combination of stretch receptors in the stomach,through intake and digestion of micronutrients  and intake of whole foods  when he had enough.

This is why stomach fillers like tablets and fibre drinks don´t really work..you still feel hungry after a short period of fullness because your body realises, even with the receptors telling you that the stomach has been full, you miss nutrients.

And because the body is learning what food he has to expects, the worse your diet was before, the harder it is to tell your body that he doesn´t need as much as he got before.

The body expects a certain feeling of fullness, a certain ammount of calories, a certain ammount of sugar, fat and protein...just like your dog will expect you to go for walks at certain times, wake up, or feed him/her.

We don´t know yet how exactly the body can know those things or see through the tricks we use on him to fake a full meal or sugar where there is only sweetener...but our body developed to survive...so it is just pure survival to realise that a certain food, even when tasting sweet or make you feeling full, does not provide enough calories or nutrients.

Or our ancestors would have starved.


Another part of this survival practice comes into play with out calorie rich, but nutrient devoid moder diet.

Oh you get more than enough from all macronutriens...so much protein, fat and sugar as you desire.

But soda, white flour products, hamburgers and chicken wings do not provide all the micronutrients we need.

Our body realises that he just doesn´t get enough of those, despite the protein,carb and fat overload.

So our body thinks he is in some kind of starvation,which he is, starving for micronutrients he needs to function properly, lowering the metabolism, storing the calories because he gets too much from those and still making us feel hungry.

Because the body IS hungry, starving for minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, healthy fatty acids which are lacking in the modern diet.

Our body makes us hungry to eat, to find a food to restore the micronutrients he needs, but what do we grab? More soda, more fries, more white toast, more chicken wings, more hamburgers, cheese pizza and so on.

And we still feel hungry, but we can not tell for what.

Food devoid of nutrients doesn´t exist in the wild. If it gives you enough calories it also delivers normally enough micronutrients.

Nature didn´t know that humans one day would strip all the fibre, minerals, vitamins and other micronutrients from the food, leaving only fat, carbs and protein.


A calorie is not a calorie when you eat refined foods