What Apocalypse Would It Take To Get You To Stop Counting Calories?

The Food Matrix is much more important to your health and guess what? Calorie counts can be off by *more* than 20%

If restrictive dieting and calorie counting results in more weight gain, what on earth should people do?

The more I learn about food processing, labeling, and nutrition, the more I realize, we can’t count on the printed food label to tell us the most important information: how the food will nourish us, and what effect it will have after we consume it.

“Calorie counting” by Lightfield Studios, licensed from Adobe Stock

I just suffered a now-rare (for me) IBS attack because, I believe, I consumed mislabeled packaged food. I consumed a nut snack from Trader Joe’s that I believe contained un-labeled artificial sweetener: and plenty of it. It wasn’t on the level of a child with a peanut allergy being given a snack that contained peanuts that didn’t appear on the label, but it could have been.

I avoid artificial sweeteners because they are almost certain to knot me up in agony within a few hours.

That’s where I’ve been for the past three days: Happy Mother’s Day! At least today I can walk pain-free.

But …