uninstantiated

All calories aren't equal because of what happens next.

After consuming sugar, your insulin cycle leaves you wanting to consume more 20 minutes later.

After eating the calorific equivalent in an apple, your metabolic process is a smooth glide so you aren't triggered to consume more in the same way as sugar.

The mental health consequences are profound, because executive control of attention is a core component of self. Sugar interrupts concentration both on the high and the withdrawal.

When humans are social with humans, are they reaching out or simply reacting?

It's not surprising that merely counting calories has no effect.

The idea that all calories are the same is flawed. In fact, obesity is the result of the wrong types of foods i.e. sugars which are metabolised differently by the body than other types.

Sugar triggers the insulin response which leads to overeating and detrimental fluctuations in cognitive capacity and concentration.

What would be more beneficial than calorie counting would be dietary education.

https://scitechdaily.com/not-all-calories-are-equal-a-dietit...

> I don't dislike Alan Watts, but by his own admission he is an entertainer.

I find Watts' advice to just peel the potatoes more useful than this concept of striding through the universe through The Great Way.

But that might just be because I don't find gratuitous capitalisation spiritually enlightening, or entertaining.