Aren’t the calories the same?

Calories The problem of diets and of the whole media bandwagon that follows and follows their business is only one: the slogan. Generally to get hold of those who need to lose weight so that they do a diet rather than another, the first weapon is to numb them with some slogans, a kind of marketing strategy whereby even if the diet does not correspond to what was promised, it matters, what matters is that you fell for it.
I’ll give you some examples: a diet without counting calories. Then you do it and you realize that it is exactly a low calorie diet. A diet that makes you lose weight by eating at will . You do it and you realize that you cannot eat cannelloni or chocolate cake at will, but rocket.

The slogan that is in fashion now is that calories do not exist, or rather, calories are not all the same. Those who speak like this are often in bad faith, this is what I have noticed. I’ll explain why calories are all the same and what exactly those who say the opposite mean.
1) CALORIES EXIST. Calorie is a unit of measurement, it indicates something, but obviously like all units of measurement it is a convention. Who established that a meter is a meter? Same thing. Therefore they exist. 2) OUR BODY LIGHTS OR GETS FAT ACCORDING TO HOW MUCH ENERGY WE BURN

This is also true. If we go into deficit, that is, we burn more energy than we get from food, the body generally uses other resources, namely excess fat. If we put calories instead of energy, the speech does not change one iota.
3) ONE HUNDRED CALORIES OF CHICKEN EQUAL TO ONE HUNDRED CALORIES OF PASTA. Yes sure. Who is the idiot who wants to prove me wrong? That’s always a hundred calories. The various but and therefore we can develop them in further arguments, but in fact it is logical that a hundred calories are always a hundred calories. Kind of like the color story of Napoleon’s white horse.
4) THE CALORIES ARE ALL THE SAME: true. As in point three, a calorie is a calorie, just as a gram is a gram.
5) IT IS TRUE THAT CALORIES EXIST AND THAT THEY ARE ALL THE SAME, BUT YOU CANNOT LIMIT THE DIETARY DISCOURSE TO CALORIES:oh, here’s how anyone who cares about you should really explain it to you. It is true, calories exist, and yes, whether they are a thousand calories of gorgonzola or a thousand of piadina there are always a thousand calories, but clearly the food we ingest cannot be reduced to its calories. Food has a nutritional value and a chemical composition of its own, which acts on ours when we ingest it. There are foods that, depending on how they are cooked, can be assimilated in whole or in part (the potato); foods that have calories, but are not at all assimilated by the body (cellulose, erythritol): therefore the problem is not that the calories are not all the same, but that the foods are not all the same. They have different effects, and depending on these effects we tend to assimilate more or less, to burn more or less, in short, we are not immune to the type of food. For this reason, we must not only think about calories, but consider our diet according to its nutritional intake. On the other hand, we do not ingest numbers of calories, we ingest food, and these must nourish us.