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Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong

Stanford Health Care

Is a Calorie a Calorie?  Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong

Stanford Health Care hosts Christopher Gardner and Robert Lustig on whether all calories are equal, with a focus on processed food and sugar. The talk questions the idea that calories in versus calories out fully explains weight and health.

HN points to Lustig's talk when arguing that processed food changes metabolism and that a simple calories in/out model is poor.

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