What is an Empty Calorie?

Empty Calorie?

We hear this expression all the time.

What is it?

An empty calorie is a "food stuff" from which all nutritive factors like vitamins, enzyme, co-factors, fiber, etc has been removed. It has almost no nutritive value other than as a carbohydrate, fat, and/or protein.

Why is this something to be concerned about?

The body needs many factors and enzymes to digest "food stuff." Many of these are present in the whole "as grown" versions of foods. In fact this source of fiber, etc is incredibly important to the function of your digestive system and body as a whole.

As a society western folks (and today more and more eastern folks) have moved to refined foods. And to foods that have less and less of the wholeness present in nature.

A glaring example of this is oil.

The plant is not even present.

Think for a moment about the percentage of fiber, etc removed from an olive to make even a tablespoon of oil.

In order to digest that little but of oil correctly your body needs all that.

And it has to make do with what it can bring into bring from its wn storehouses.

And that "fake set of olive like things from the body" will never be the recipe from nature.

Ever.

That is why the calorie is empty.

And that is why the calorie is worse than empty.

Because of what it takes from you.

From your emergency storehouse.

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The human body is simple in many respects.

Including what you need to know to run a better ship.

Because your body is your vessel to navigate through life's challenges.

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And your care for your body is the first thing after your care for your mind.

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"Put on your own air mask, before attempting to help others."

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My next topic was to be an analogue of this one.

What is an empty society?

How does going from place to place and seeing exactly the same shops and town structure come to an understanding that this social product is refined --- empty.

And that as human beings this supplies nothing of what we need so deeply.

But the above structure is enough to make that point.

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This society causes the Mental Analogue of Old Age.

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Curtain Call.