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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://web.archive.org/web/20230827150018/https://www.economist.com/1843/2019/02/28/death-of-the-calorie

Very interested to hear folks’ thoughts on this article. The “calories in, calories out” mantra has always frustrated me. I’m a keto adherent, and I have found that eating a low carb diet is the best (only?) way for me to maintain a healthy weight. I never count calories because I find it difficult - and I suspect that that method of weight control really pushes people away from home cooked meals (which are difficult to weigh/estimate calories) and towards simple, prepackaged foods.

The article raises an interesting question: is the calorie a necessary/useful concept for human nutrition? [/quote]

It’s not possible for most people to keep carbs under 30 grams per day and have calories go over 2,000 calories without a lot of artificial sweetener carbs, and most will have a hard time going over 1,500 calories. So, anyone who’s sticking honestly to a low-carb diet without eating many sticks of butter has a fairly low-calorie diet.

Even the people eating sticks of butter are probably eating fewer calories than they would on a regular diet. 
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