Is it possible to make calories less fattening?

Question
I've read that the calorie=calorie=calorie rule is not true anymore. How can one use this fact to lose more weight?

Answer
Hi Victoria,

You may be right depending on what we are looking at. The calorie definition is still true: a calorie is amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.

However, it's not that simple in human body. The fate of a calorie in a food strongly depends on many things including food condition (cooked or  raw, soft or hard, cool or warm, etc.), eating style - how thoroughly one chews, food combining during a particular meal, etc.

Recent clinical research revealed that, for example, Atkins dieters lost more weight though they were asked to eat around 300 Calories a day more than than their fellows on a low fat diet. Please read about recent calorie trends:

Calories and Low Carb Diets
http://bantadiet.com/banta/?page_id=42

Aren't All Calories Equal?
http://atkinszone.com/2008/03/calorie-calorie-calorie.html

3500 Calories To Lose A Pound: Is This Formula All Wrong?
http://atkinszone.com/2008/03/3500-calories-to-lose-pound.html

Tanya Zilberter

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