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The scientists at Karolinska Institute found that when people become significantly overweight they start to produce about twice as many new fat cells annually as lean people.

Your body’s use of fuel works on a hierarchy. It will go for glucose first, then glycogen, and only then will it proactively go through the work of breaking down deposited fat to use it for fuel.

It’s an agreed-upon reality that when you eat food you are bringing in new calories.

Digesting food costs energy.

It’s generally accepted that protein takes the most energy to digest, with approximately 20 to 30 percent of total calories in the protein going into digesting it.

At the end of the study, they found that eating the processed food sandwich led to a 50 percent reduction in calorie burn after the meal compared to eating the whole food sandwich!

Another food that tends to not abide by conventional calorie metrics are nuts

Another thing to consider in this domain is that some foods are actually fighting not to be digested. Let’s use the plight of some blueberries,

generally speaking, the weaker the cell walls in the plants we eat, the more calories we can actually extract from them.

Obviously, cooking can be an easy way to increase the sheer volume you eat.