it is so easy to get caught up in how many calories we are consuming daily, especially if we are wanting to lose a few pounds. we can become so focused on the quantity of food, instead of the quality of our food.
imagine eating 1,000 calories of broccoli and 1,000 calories of ice cream. do these 1,000 calories have the same effect on our bodies and provide us the same nutrition? not necessarily.
in a laboratory setting, 1,000 calories of broccoli and 1,000 calories of ice cream do indeed release the same amount of energy. however, our bodies are complex systems and the same number of calories from different types of 