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For every calorie of food that we consume here in Britain today, 10 calories are taken to produce it.
Bodies that were built to hang onto every calorie found themselves swimming in the superfluous calories of the post-war Western diet.
It takes 10 calories of fossil fuel energy in our highly industrialized food system in order to produce one calorie of food energy.
So you think about, these Nike shoes have got sensors in them, or you're using a Nike FuelBand that basically tracks your movement, your energy, your calorie consumption.
We know how far you've run, how far you've moved, what your calorie intake, all that sort of stuff.
But what is a calorie, really, and how many of them do we actually need?
So we have to be able to measure the energy we consume and use, and we do so with a unit called the calorie.
One calorie, the kind we measure in food, also called a large calorie, is defined as the amount of energy it would take to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius.
Everything we consume has a calorie count, a measure of how much energy the item stores in its chemical bonds.
The calorie counts on nutrition labels measure how much energy the food contains, not how much energy you can actually get out of it.
Fibrous foods like celery and whole wheat take more energy to digest, so you'd actually wind up with less energy from a 100 calorie serving of celery than a 100 calorie serving of potato chips.
So a calorie is a useful energy measure, but to work out exactly how many of them each of us requires we need to factor in things like exercise, food type, and our body's ability to process energy.
It shows you net calorie gaps in every country in the world.
Blue countries are net calorie exporters, or self-sufficient.
Red countries are net calorie importers.
Then China, where population is flattening out, calorie consumption will explode because the types of calories consumed are also starting to be higher-calorie-content foods.
Until now, countries with calorie deficits have been able to meet these deficits by importing from surplus regions.
One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, "Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well."
For me it may be: every calorie you consume, you conserve, because I come from a very cold climate.
All I could think about was counting every single calorie, and waking up early before school every day so I could run a few miles.
It takes about 10 calories to produce every calorie of food that we consume in the West.
How about counting every calorie?
Take a site I just visited this morning, for Fitbit, a self-monitoring tool that lets you measure your physical motion, and by implication your exercise, calorie consumption, sleep time, and other factors.
It is also an inefficient way of generating food; up to 30 crop calories are needed to produce one meat calorie.
Probably the single most telling statistic I cited was that the minimum wage (the wage earned by the median worker) measured in the cheapest available calorie, had declined from 52,854 calories per day in May 2012 to just 7,005 by May 2017 – not enough to feed a family of five.
Food self-sufficiency in staple cereals now stands at 28% on a calorie supply basis, with no signs of growth.
In the field of diet and nutrition, there is a fundamental debate between calorie counters and proponents of specific diets, whether low-fat, low-carbohydrate, or buy-my-line-of-expensive-formulated-products.
Through irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250% between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world’s poorest people and averting severe famines.
One scholar, Farzana Afridi, reported in the Journal of Development Economics that the program “improved nutritional intakes by reducing the daily protein deficiency of a primary school student by 100%, the calorie deficiency by almost 30%, and the daily iron deficiency by nearly 10%.”
To answer this question, consider the effects of calorie restriction, which has been found to increase life span in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals.