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Chris, thank you for your response. You say the calorie thing is a misnomer. I read somewhere awhile ago, don't remember where, that the calorie theory is just that; a theory, and that it is a theory full of holes. I wish I could remember where I read it.

But let me ask you this because perhaps it will help to make things more clear for me: for example, I can eat a pound of carrots, which I think is about two hundred calories or so, and an apple, another seventy-five to a hundred calories or so, and I can be full for an entire day. This is less than three hundred calories for an entire day. Yet, as I understand it, the body is "supposed" to need a daily intake of around two thousand or so calories. Are you saying that if three hundred calories (a pound of carrots and an apple) fills me up for the day, then that is all I need and not to worry that I am being "starved" because I am eating about one-seventh of what I am "supposed" to eat? Because that is what is confusing me; I am full after that much food, and could not eat seven more times that amount of food even if I wanted to. Thank you again for your response.

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