date:Feb 20, 2013
arbohydrates by up to 20%.
The Atwater Convention yields realistic values for foods that are highly digestible, such as white bread, said Richard Wrangham, a primatologist at Harvard University. But the system leaves out fiberassuming that this component of food has no energy value to the body.
As reported by the Guardian, the researchers also found consumers could reduce their calorie intake by eating raw rather than cooked foods. They said the way calories are assigned to foods by manufactur