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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also there is a big difference between the calories you get from an avocado and the calories you get from a donut. Some are full of nutrients and some are full of fats and are empty of nutrients

So it may be a good idea to qualify the calories conversation with this kind of information as well.[/quote]

No, this is bad advice. That is setting up a good food, bad food mentality and is proven to lead to restriction.

Frankly, the "science" on calories is like teaching your kid about mental health using ideas from the 1910s. It is so much more complex than calories. And bodies don't absorb calories as listed on the nutrition label. Popular knowledge has not kept up with the evolving science on this, and frankly even science is decades slow on really understanding it.

Calories are heat released when you burn something. It is a very basic measurement of heat energy. But it does not even come close to understanding how it all interacts in our bodies with the hormones, bacteria, cycles (that both males and females have), etc. 
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