{"id":2605,"date":"2011-12-09T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2011-12-09T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:28:53","slug":"the-calorie-values-on-most-food-labels-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/the-calorie-values-on-most-food-labels-are-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calorie Values on most Food Labels are Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my very popular recent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/a-calorie-is-not-a-calorie-is-not-a-calorie\/\" title=\"A Calorie, is not a Calorie, is not a Calorie\">why calorie counting is flawed<\/a>, I just received this link by email from a friend, which exposes the fact that the calorie values on food are all wrong, because they&#8217;re based on the raw ingredients of food. Whereas in fact <strong>as soon as you cook \/ process food, the available energy is increased, so the calorific value should increase too<\/strong>. (It also contains disturbing stories about eating raw monkey meat and a video of mice eating live albatrosses!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/crux\/2011\/12\/08\/why-calorie-counts-are-wrong-cooked-food-provides-a-lot-more-energy\/\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/crux\/2011\/12\/08\/why-calorie-counts-are-wrong-cooked-food-provides-a-lot-more-energy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the short video if you&#8217;re feeling gruesome:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carnivorous Mice eating Baby Birds Alive\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATXFCryzvgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s surprising to me about that article is that it\u2019s surprising to the author! I thought it was <strong>common knowledge that energy from cooked \/ processed food was more easily accessible <\/strong>than uncooked \/ unprocessed food.  That\u2019s part of what the Glycemic Index charts are all about.  <\/p>\n<p>I do include \u201cprocessed\u201d whereas his article is more about cooked, because even raw foods have an increased GI from processing, for example <strong>oranges\u2019 glycemic index (44) is 18% higher when it\u2019s processed into orange juice (52)<\/strong>, see the GI chart on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbeach-diet-plan.com\/glycemicfoodchart.htm\">Southbeach Diet Site<\/a>.  That&#8217;s why any kind of fruit juice is bad from a weightloss perspective, due to the breaking down of the plant cell walls during juicing. It&#8217;s far better (and a whole lot more satisfying I&#8217;d say) to eat the fruit just as nature intended.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it\u2019s all more fuel to the fire that counting calories is a simply flawed approach to diet and weightloss.  Even <strong>Weight Watchers have recently ditched their calorie based points system<\/strong>, admitting that they\u2019ve been getting it wrong for decades!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my very popular recent article on why calorie counting is flawed, I just received this link by email from a friend, which exposes the fact that the calorie values on food are all wrong, because they&#8217;re based on the raw ingredients of food. Whereas in fact as soon as you cook \/ process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[294,191,81,205,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-2605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-calories","9":"tag-carbohydrates","10":"tag-diet","11":"tag-weight-loss","12":"tag-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}