Jami Dulaney Md Plant Based Wellness
Jami Dulaney MD Plant Based Wellness Podcast Episode 484: Calories versus Weight
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Welcome! Thank you for listening. What is a whole food? What is a clean food? Those terms are thrown around with authority and ultimately blend into just food. If you ask most people on a diet, they will throw out that they are eating 1200 calories a day. That seems to be the magic number that has stuck in the diet world. Apps are available that helps one to prove a point. They are only as good as what is entered. I have never had a person tell me that they consumed 3000 calories in a day, but I am sure it happens on a regular basis and more often than 1200 calories. What about the weight of food? Does a pound of chips have the same amount of energy as a pound of potatoes? What about a pound of carrots. It turns out that vegetables, tubers, and fruit contain about the right amount of calories per pound for humans to consume and maintain a healthy weight. It also turns out that we as a society do not burn near the calories as a typical hunter-gatherer society. It is also true that men burn more