DEFINING A HEALTHY DIET: PART 5 - DIETS THAT FOCUS ON CALORIES AND CARBS

Mya Care06 Aug, 2021Health

Calories describe units of energy, particularly pertaining to cellular energy metabolism and the amount of ?stored energy? in foods. With the boom in biological research in the last few decades, an understanding of cellular energy metabolism has dramatically improved, revealing multiple cellular pathways that contribute and affect energy metabolism. This essentially reduced the value of calories as a tool for optimizing nutrition as there are many other factors involved in the amount of energy cells can produce.