Calories, fat and sugar

Let's shock you today! I'm going to share with you something controversial. Get ready for it!

Calories have nothing to do nor with overweight, neither with obesity. Counting calories is very popular and multiple diets are based on it. And that's why the diets don't work like they should. So far everyone thought: 'I'm getting fat when I eat more calories that I burn'. In fact it's not so simple.

If you count calories you judge food by its caloric value. It's stupid because with this method you don't pay attention to the quality of the food and it's clear that cookies has different importance for your body than a banana or a fish. This method doesn't take in cosideration the role of the food in your body.

According to that, the scientists came to a conclusion that fat is worse than sugar – fat contains 9 kcal/g and sugar 4 kcal/g. That's why sugar is only half as bad as fat. But they didn't think that sugar is the cause of getting overweight and fat can even stabilize our weight and help us lose it.

So what makes us fat? Sugar, artificial flavouring and food additives like glutamat.