Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Stop counting calories!

31 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("Stop counting calories!") in which the speaker argues conventional calorie-counting/low-fat dieting is misguided, cites a very high diet recidivism rate (~97%), claims low-fat/high-carb diets raise insulin and promote fat storage, and reframes the body from a "bank account" to a "chemistry lab," asserting food acts as information that rapidly changes health.

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The one thing we know about diets, at the end of the day, they cause weight gain. It's like a 97% recidivism rate. But if you change that and realize we've just been following the wrong set of rules out there, right, Our body is in a bank account. What I was taught back in school is lower your calories, which just actually causes your body to go in starvation mode, eat less fat, which means if you're eating a low fat diet, and we were told back then, low fat vegetarian, which is high carb, you're just raising insulin and causing your body to store fat. The message to your body, because food is information, is to store fat, not burn it. So what I realized is what we were taught the whole time, this bank account model, this ATM model of weight loss, of health is absolutely wrong. And that our body is a chemistry lab and food is information. I mean, one of the fastest things you can do to change your health and change everything is change what's at the end of your fork.