卡路里计算的难题

No matter how much the convo around weight changes with the times, one practice remains cemented in our brains and behaviors. Can we ever shake it? By Currie Engel It's early in the morning, and Lulu Hunt Peters, MD, sits at her desk, puzzling over the manuscript she’s writing about a miraculous weight-loss method she learned about back in her medical school days at the University of California. She spends hours thinking about the best, most entertaining way to explain the basics of a major nutritional discovery—the application of the concept of calories, a unit of energy, to food—made by a scientist named Wilbur Atwater, as well as her own research and the use of this new science in her …