People are obsessed with burning fat to lose weight. Millions of products, services, and careers are based upon the relationship between fat burning and weight loss. In today’s podcast, The Nutrition Grouch explains why he thinks burning fat is actually very overrated. Burning fat isn’t actually controlled by fat, we don’t have a calorie burning or a fat burning problem, we’ve got a calorie consumption problem, introduces his favorite nutrient metabolism concept of all time (the oxidative hierarchy), explains how all diets work, and dispels the myths of
We also discuss how long you can live without eating (the answer will surprise you!!) and why energy balance, above all else regulates how much you weigh.
