Absolutely fabulous reply by Mr YS in the raw paleo forum. Someone was asking about the calorie content of bone marrow. I myself have never counted calories. Why? It does not make sense at all. There is no logic. I’m an engineer and we measured calories but it has no connection with food as human fuel. Did you notice in all my blogs I never talk about my calorie consumption?
YS explains it better.
“why do you care about calories? calories and health have absolutely nothing in common.
food calorie is the dumbest thing ever.calorie is a thermal unit that measures the amount of thermal energy. it was invented somewhere in the dark ages to describe how our bodies use energy from food by burning food in the air. well, there is absolutely nothing that burns in our bodies, instead there are highly complex chemical reactions with tons of dependencies and variables. how can anyone equate it to simply burning food in the air?
no one is complaining about this nonsense because the concept of calorie is very convenient and it drives billion dollar industries such as food, medical, diet, fitness, etc.
here is an example of how ridiculous concept of food calorie is. has anyone tried to estimate how many food calories it takes to grow our nails, hair, or replacing skin cells? or generate new blood cells, hormones, recycle old cells? you’ll never find an answer. try asking this question to a “registered dietitian” just for the kicks.
food calories are as useful as dog poop, so instead i would use weight to measure the amount of food.
i personally do not weigh my food, i eat until i’m not hungry and that’s it. if i ate less than my body needs, i’ll get hungry sooner, if i ate more then it’ll take more time until my next meal. heck, animals don’t weigh their food.”