Calories Don’t Count

Coinciding with this development was the publication of Calories Don t Count (43), which became an instant best-seller in 1961. The book advocated a diet that featured daily capsulized doses of safflower oil. Medical research was beginning to demonstrate the close relationship between diet and heart disease. Eminent researchers began to show the relationship of cholesterol to heart disease and, more important, to show that polyunsaturates such as safflower oil would lower blood serum cholesterol for many people (44-46). 

H. Taller, Calories Don t Count, Simon Schuster, New York, 1967. 

Also, cattle fed on fatty foods such as coconut oil lost weight. And do not give up rich, meaty foods such as steak, eggs, prime ribs, lobster, bacon, etc. Instead of a carbohydrate burner, turn your body into a fat burner. In a way, the proposed diet is similar to Dr. Atkins low-carbohydrate diet, which in turn was similar to the thesis of the book titled Calories Don t Count, igniting a controversy that once ended up in court with a judgment against the book s authors. But it was a different world back then, in the 1960s. 

In the late 1950s or early 1960s there was a book published and promoted tided Calories Don t Count, which ranphasized fats. For their trouble, the authors were... 

A dietary history for Ivan Applebod showed that he had continued his habit of drinking scotch and soda each evening while watching TV, but he did not add the ethanol calories to his dietary intake. He justifies this calculation on the basis of a comment he heard on a radio program that calories from alcohol ingestion don t count because they are empty calories that do not cause weight gain. 

The Ultimate pH Solution approach to great health and balanced weight is simple strive to get a 70 30 ratio of alkaline food to acidic food. This is easier than you might think. You don t have to count calories and then calculate whether you ate the correct ratio. That s just not workable over the long term. All you have to do is estimate the ratio by the amounts of alkaline-forming foods on your plate at each meal or snack. You ll soon learn guidelines to help you remember which foods are acidic and which ones are alkaline, so you won t have to memorize massive food lists. 

In contrast, you don t need to avoid most other types of fats unless you are counting calories. And we especially encourage consuming one particular kind of fatty acid, as you will see below. 

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