
ZOE Science & Nutrition
Recap: Why you should stop counting calories | Giles Yeo
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23 Dec 2025 · 15 min
Nutrition basicsWeight management
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Calories. They’ve been at the heart of dieting advice for decades. Eat fewer, burn more, lose weight. simple, right? Except it’s not that simple. Calories only tell us a fraction of the story. To really understand what's going on, we need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Helping us take this step is biologist Giles Yeo. He’ll explain why obsessing over the numbers doesn’t work, and how we can change the way we approach weight loss. 🌱 Try our new plant based wholefood supplemen