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Did you know (or do you still) know the calories in a medium egg? In a slice of sandwich bread? Or of a small apple? I lived by the calorie for too many years. Should it be the end all-be all? Definitely not. Do calories have any sort of role in determining our intake needs? Maybe. Let's figure out what about the calorie we might find valuable so that we can happily toss out the rest!

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CALORIES 101

• Why Calories Don't Matter, drhyman.com
• Good Calories, Bad Calories, by Gary Taubes.
• The Caldor Pocket Calorie Counter Book(let) of My Youth, or something pretty close!
• New Scientific Study: Calories Matter, paleomom.com
• Feel the Burn: How Do Scientists Count Calories? blogs.scientificamerican.com
• Do Dieticians Accurately Report Their Food Intake? weightology.net
• Estimating Food Portions. Influence of unit number, meal type and energy density, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial, bmj.com
• Low-Carb Diets May Work By Boosting Calorie Burn, webmd.com
• Episode 32 - Wellness While Walking with guest Dr. Elizabeh Boham, Part 1

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