Clearly, a calorie isn’t just a calorie and by perpetuating this untruth, fitness apps help people tack on the pounds instead of shedding them.Įxercise is probably bad for you. To most fitness apps, a calorie of high-fructose corn syrup is the same as a calorie of protein despite the fact that science, and our bodies, tells us otherwise. Peter Attia, co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative, “All calories are not created equally … The energy content of food (calories) matters, but it is less important than the metabolic effect of food on our body.” Certain foods prompt the body to store fat by spiking the release of hormones like insulin. But they do.ĭrugs aren’t the only things that can change hormone levels. If putting on pounds was just a matter of “energy balance” then these medications shouldn’t make people heavier. For example, doctors have known for some time that certain medications cause patients to gain or lose weight by changing hormone levels in the body. Eat too much or move too little, the thinking goes, and you’ll get fat, right? Not exactly.Įvidence that the calories in, calories out theory is too simplistic is plentiful. They ask users to track what they eat and record their physical activity in order to quantify whether dieters intake a surplus of calories for the day.
Most of these gadgets and apps attempt to push people to eat less and exercise more.
The first reason fitness apps make us fat is that almost all of them are based on a pervasive myth.
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