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