Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but I honestly couldn't disagree more with the overall premise with regards to losing weight. Yes, nutrition is certainly vastl

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but I honestly couldn't disagree more with the overall premise with regards to losing weight. Yes, nutrition is certainly vastly more complicated than the single data point calories provide, but the vast majority of people (myself included) will never, ever be able to ascertain that knowledge much less be able to interpret them in a way useful for their own health benefit. For me, calorie counting was a revelation. I'd tried eating less and exercising more without much success, and then I read a simple explanation of calorie counting and realized the whole thing could be simplified into a simple math problem. If I just kept track of my inputs (food) and roughly knew my outputs I could control my weight. Once I focused on that I lost ~45lbs in a year.