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Your Fitness App is Making You Fat, Here’s Why - Nir & Far

Nir And Far: Business, Behaviour and the Brain

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Why You Shouldn't Exercise Yourself Thin

According to peter adia, co founder of the nutrition science initiative, all calories are not created equal. The energy content of food, calories matters, but it is less important than the metabolic effect of food on your body. To most fitness aps, a calory of high fructos corn syrup is the same as a Calory of protein despite the fact that science and our bodies tell us otherwise. Certain foods prompt the body to store fat by spiking the release of hormones like insolent.

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