Of all the nutrition myths, the calorie myth is one of the most pervasive and most damaging.It’s the idea that calories are the most important part of the diet — that the sources of these calories don’t matter.“A calorie is a calorie is a calorie,” they say — that it doesn’t matter whether you eat a 100 calories of candy or broccoli, they will have the same effect on your weight.It’s true that all calories have the same amount of energy. One dietary calorie contains 4,184 Joules of energy. In that respect, a calorie is a calorie.
