“The history of dieting by calorie counting shows why it should stay in the past, experts say”

Calorie counting has a lot of support in the weight loss literature, so I was surprised to see this article by the ABC.

I assumed the article was goi g to talk about toxic diet culture, but it went in a different direction.

TL;DR: “the problem with focusing on calories is that not all calories are equal […] fast foods and convenience foods are "far more calorically available".” And “calorie counts for meals being out by around 10 per cent, on average. […]The problem is 10 per cent adds up pretty quickly”.

I thought this might interest a few people here.

What do you think?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-07/calorie-counting-weight-loss-history/100800850?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web