Focusing solely on the number of calories in food is a flawed strategy because it neglects the nutritional quality and the biological reality of how the body processes different types of food.

“The problem we have today is people get so obsessed with just the number that calorie 400, 500, 600 that when they're cutting calories, they are no no longer cutting it either evenly, but they're also not even considering the quality of the food that they're eating.”

Calorie counting is not an effective way to lose weight or maintain weight loss and is a misleading approach promoted by the food industry.

“There's never been any long-term study showing that calorie counting is an effective way to lose weight and maintain weight loss”