Net Gain: Increased energy through conservation, not consumption

May 25, 2009
By Brendan Brazier

The nutritional value of food as stated by the “label claim” is of course pertaining to what is in the food, not what the body actually gets from it. A more sensible way to assess the energy providing attributes of food is to consider its net gain. The net gain of food is the term I give to what we are left with once the food has been processed for energy by the body. We… Read More >