Tag Archives: calories

Think you are getting a jump-start to your day, and your diet, while sipping your skinny? Maybe, maybe not. Those non caloric artifical sweeteners could be doing you more harm than good.

An article by associate professor Brian Parr, claims that maintaining weight loss depends on making your weight loss diet your normal diet. This is true but then he says the solution is calorie counting.

Dana Carpender's New Carb & Calorie Counter is a must-have for anyone watching their carbohydrates. Dana's extensive knowledge of low-carb living, paired with her personal experience, makes this a comprehensive guide for any dieter.

We have ads touting low calorie soup, low calorie cereal, low calorie yogurt, as opposed to that "high calorie" yogurt - you know, with a whole 100 calories per serving. Oh, and the soup is advertised as having only 80 calories per serving "and no fat." Welcome to the post-100-calorie-pack advertising gimmick.

A new study out of Canada reveals something about a popular breakfast food that people who are livin' la vida low-carb already know about. Published in the lastest issue of Journal of the American College of Nutrition, the study found that eating just 2 eggs for breakfast helps keep people satisfied longer than a small bagel does because of the high amount of protein contained in them. As a result, study participants had less hunger and actually took in fewer calories over the next full day as a result.

We've been discussing the history of diets and dieting. It may seem obvious to you that the idea of the calorie, at least as it pertains to dieting, must have been with us since the beginning of dieting. However, such is not the case. As we discussed last time, it wasn't until the 1890s and early 1900s that chemists Wilbur Atwater and Russell Chittenden did the initial work of measuring food as units of heat that could be produced by burning it. But from the get-go, the calorie concept has never been nearly as scientific as it may appear.

Dr. Beth Gruber talks about the important role of dietary fats. Body fat provides the most important reservoir of stored energy as adipose tissue. Article 20 of the Science of Low-Carb & Keto Diets series.