Have you noticed it? There is a bunch of information on the Internet about “calorie types.”

I’ve seen articles claiming that “there are three types of calories: carbohydrates, protein and fat.” I”ve seen articles focused on “the types of calories to eat when gaining weight” or discussing “why calorie type makes a difference.”

These writers are seriously misinformed!

A calorie is a measurement. It is a precise amount of energy. Specifically, it is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Centigrade.

Since calories measure energy, talking about types of calories is as senseless as taking about types of inches, or types of pounds.

While we can”t talk about types of calories, we can talk about “how many calories.” Each type of food contains a different amount of energy. And you burn different amounts of energy when you do different activities.

In either case, we would talk about these energy amounts in terms of calories.

So different foods can have their calories packed in “tighter.” It takes just a handful of coal to equal the same weight as a big bag of feathers. It is a similar kind of thing when you compare a small piece of cheesecake to a pile of celery.

The different caloric facts about food and activity are at the heart of some diet programs. They can also make a big difference in our “life after diet.” This is because these caloric facts play a big role in whether or not we feel ’satisfied’ after we eat. This is actually a topic too complicated to cover in this article.

But we can note that one of the factors that go into feeling “satisfied” is the volume of food we have eaten. Clearly if we can eat more food while taking in fewer calories, we are more likely to feel satisfied while at the same time, be less likely to gain weight.

So, the idea the there are types of calories is a myth. The truth is that various foods have different densities of calories.

And we now know that to lose fat, we need to burn more calories than we eat.

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