Tuesday, May 20, 2025

A Calorie is not a Calorie 

A Calorie is not a Calorie (see below)

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/6-reasons-why-a-calorie-is-not-a-calorie#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2

Eat less, exercise more – if only it were that simple! We’veheard this for years – so why is it not working? Several reasons – 1 is calories are not just a calorie. The nutrition and density of food impact your weight, hunger, mood, sleep and more. And 2. You cannot out exercise a poor diet.

4 double stuff oreo cookies are 280 calories. To burn that lifting you need to lift weights for an hour and 15 minutes. Or you could run for 25 minutes, or walk for 45-55 minutes. It is not easy to walk off those calories. 


Exercise is key for toning, for mood, for helping your metabolism. It is important – but you cannot out exercise a poor diet. 

To know how many calories you should eat per day to keep the weight on – take your weight and multiply it by 15. Then to lose weight doctors will tell you to cut 500 calories a day. But – its not just calories that impact weight and health. 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/295901

JTH products can help you eat less, cut calories, and boost health. Then we will do a deep dive on nutrition to help you eat healthier, for better blood sugar, better gut health, better brain and overall health.


Now the first thing is to get enough protein. Most people get the bulk of their protein in the evening meal. But for better muscle health, hunger control and weight we need to eat it in each meal and snack. JTH shakes help you do that by giving you easy to digest, perfect amount, and simple and fast protein shakes that are better.

Quick Highlights: 

Tri-Active Protein Blend - Three Types of Protein build lean muscle better and curb hunger.

Core: Uses Whey Concentrate, Whey Isolate and Whey hydrolysate (most don’t use all three/only concentrate) o​V-Pro: Uses Non-GMO Pea Hydrolysate, Pea Isolate, and Pumpkin Seed Protein (most use simple pea protein) 

Clinically Studied Digestive Enzymes make proteins more efficient, and better absorbed (at cellular level) and digested – 60% more than other shakes.

Clinically Studied Prebiotic Fiber boosts mood, digestive health, memory and more.

Proprietary Sweetener and Flavor System helps diabetics manage blood sugar, helps athletes have sustained energy, helps burn fat too. Tastes great! (Derived from sugar beets/not artificial)

Increases mineral absorption in the body 50% more.

This adds up to better health, and better results.

And for about $2.50 a meal when made with fruit and milk – you save money on groceries while boosting your health.

 

JTH Protein https://www.fluid.app/s/aa95ed

Want to eat less and help your body’s hunger hormones – while boosting regularity, gut health, gut permeability and fight leaky gut? Combine the JTH Fiber Pro and PowerOx and get all ofthose benefits and more. Studies show that yerba mate caffeine, combined with the fiber we use – can help your body balance those hunger hormones. Mix a PowerOx tea with fiber pro mid -afternoon, and you can eat less at dinner and lose weight. We had people lose 8-12 pounds on this combination alone.

Want a simple way to eat less, and boost your overall health? Get more support with Gluco Support. Take 1-2 capsules before a meal and you can cut calories, cut the bloated feeling, and help keep blood sugar more stable. This product has berberine – natures’ Ozempic combined with cinnamon bark extract, cactus fiber, white kidney bean extract and Gymnema which helps fight sugar cravings, and controls blood sugar.  This helps you have better blood sugar, better gut health too. Less hangry’s and lower the glycemic index of food. 

Glucose Support https://www.fluid.app/s/a77537

If you need a little more help – try Control. This is a mood booster that fights fat. When we are sad we eat more. So we help boost mood with natural amino acids, and then a little caffeine to make you feel better, while we add in chocamine extract, derived from chocolate along with Garcinia to fight fat. Some studies even show it can help your body shrink fat.

Gut health. Brain Health. Digestive health. Mood. Sleep. Digestion. Muscles. Blood sugar.

And more simply done. 

And you can lose weight, maintain weight, or build healthy weight with Jump to health.

Control https://www.fluid.app/s/e79bee 

So now lets talk about nutrition and why the types of calories matter – and then how JTH can make it easy for you with our meal plans! We have them for any lifestyle – keto, blood sugar, vegan/vegetarian, simple power of 2 shakes. So many ways that make it simple to get results. 

What we eat can impact our hormones, our mood, whether we store a calorie as fat or convert it to sugar. Different foods and macronutrients have a major effect on the hormones and brain centers that control hunger and eating behavior.

 

Typically when we look at calories – we can look at protein, fat, and carbs. Our body digests them differently, and the impact on blood sugar and weight is different. For example 1 gr of protein is 4 calories, 1 gram of sugar is 4 calories, and 1 gr of fat is 9 calories. So right away people think to get slimmer cut calories and cut fat. But this is not true. Our body will process carbs almost immediately and carbs can turn to fat in the body. Then it goes to protein – it digests slower, and keeps us fuller, yet too much protein in one meal, typically above 30 grams and it can turn to fat in the body. Then fat – fat is digested the slowest and the best part – fat cannot turn to fat in your body. This is one reason if you eat a cream soup – like cream of broccoli – you will feel fuller a lot longer, and often eat a lot fewer calories. 

This is also why a true keto program works – when you eat fat you feel fuller, you eat less, and your body cannot turn fat into fat. 


And this is where 1 area where keto programs online or in bookstores are wrong. Dr. Steve and I looked at hundreds of plans – and 99% of what we see are not true keto. They do not give you enough fat. The reason why is they base it on % of calories. Yet we just learned fat has almost double the calories of protein and carbs. So if you base it on calories you are not getting enough fat to put you into ketosis and keep you there. And then other keto programs also include vegetables like cooked spinach or tomato sauce – and those convert to sugar in the body -taking you out of ketosis. This is why on so many people gain weight on other keto programs. When you combine fat plus carbs like butter and bread – that is dangerous as you eat a lot of calories and can gain weight. It truly is about eating the right kind of foods together.


This is where our keto plan – called New You In 22 – is different. It is based on Dr. Steve’s PHD that he earned 30 years ago studying keto and fat in the body. He wrote meal plans for people with epilepsy and helped them for years. Then the drug industry introduced anti-convulsant drugs and the diet became less popular. But now we know that fat is good for the brain, it boosts brain function, helps fight inflammation, helps the body create hormones and absorb vitamins. Eat it and you eat fewer calories in the long run. And with New You in 22 – we did all the calculations for you. All the macro’s, micro’s, fat to protein to carbs, to the right carbs. And we provide over 270 recipes for shakes, protein cakes, protein bagels, and breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and desserts that help you lose weight when using our products, and food the whole family can enjoy too.

 

Now the reason your family can eat these meals is they are healthy, low carb, and it is when you combine the program with the products you get the fastest results. Our average week 1 weight loss on New You in 22 is 6.4 lbs. the first week. In 22 days we had people lose up to 19 lbs. Without hunger, and while detoxing their body from sugars, carbs, chemicals. 

 

If you are not into keto then with the Power of 2 program – you will get enough calories to burn fat, and not be hungry. Some programs I see have people eating 800-1000 calories a day- and this will wreck your metabolism and slow your weight loss, even make you gain weight as the body fights to stay out of starvation mode. So there are many reasons diets do and do not work – and with JTH – our programs were created by PhD Nutritionists – so the products and programs deliver healthy results. 

 

And here is a fun fact – carbs begin to digest in our mouth as the bacteria and enzymes convert carbs to maltodextrin. So our body makes starch out of carbs beginning in our mouth. Protein digestion begins in our stomach where enzymes in the stomach begin to break it down. Although fats leave your stomach more slowly than either carbohydrates or proteins, very little fat digestion occurs in the stomach. Bile from the liver prepares fat for the breakdown by emulsifying it, making it soluble in water.

 

Now lets talk other foods where a calorie is not a calorie. 

Here is one example:

1. Fructose vs Glucose

The two main simple sugars in your diet are glucose and fructose.

Gram for gram, the two provide the same number of calories.

But the way they are metabolized in the body is completely different.

 

Glucose can be metabolized by all of your body’s tissues, but fructose can only be metabolized by the liver. Ghrelin is the hunger hormone. It goes up when you’re hungry and down after you’ve eaten. One study showed that fructose leads to higher ghrelin levels — that is more hunger — than glucose. Fructose does not stimulate the satiety centers in your brain in the same way as glucose, leading to a reduced feeling of fullness.

 

Consuming a lot of fructose can cause insulin resistance, abdominal fat gain, increased triglycerides, blood sugar and small, dense LDL compared to the exact same number of calories from glucose 

As you can see: the same number of calories — vastly different effects on hunger, hormones and metabolic health.

 

This is also one reason Jump To Health does not use fructose in our products. Yet so many companies do because we are taught it is low glycemic – it doesn’t spike insulin. But it does other harm and can make you hungrier. And guaranteed the other shakes on the market have fructose or artificial sweeteners.

 

2. Energy or heat to eat.

Some foods require more energy to digest- which means they digest slower, and don’t impact blood sugar or insulin as easily as other foods.

 

Studies show that high-protein diets boost metabolism by 80–100 calories per day, compared to lower-protein diets 

 

Put simply, high-protein diets have a metabolic advantage. Yet most people get their protein in their evening meal. We tend to eat muffins, bagels, waffles, cereal, toast, pancakes for breakfast. A salad for lunch and boom – a big steak for dinner. But your body can only absorb so much at once – and what it does not absorb it can convert to fat! That is why so many people failed on the Atkins or fake keto diets- they were not getting the right amount of protein. That is why JTH delivers the right amount, with easier to digest and absorb proteins. Meaning our Core shake which is whey based, or V Pro shake that is plant based a) digest easier, b) build lean muscle better c) taste better and d) get used more efficiently than any other shake. And they have other health benefits for heart, gut, brain, mood, sleep, bones too.

 

3. Different foods have different effects on satiety. This means some foods will give you a greater feeling of fullness. It’s also much easier to overeat on some foods than others. For example, it may be quite easy to eat 500 calories or more of ice cream, while you’d have to force feed yourself to eat 500 calories of eggs or broccoli.

 

4. Low carb vs. Low Fat

We have been trained by the food industry to think that fat is bad for us, and that we need to eat low carb. This is one myth that is hard to beat. Yet this myth was created by food industry lobbyists. And it is easy to think about. Low fat foods like bagels, cereal, grains – have a long shelf life. They can last on your cupboard for a long long long time. Fruits, vegetables, and healthy fats do not. And grains are a lot cheaper to grow and sell. 

 

People on a higher fat diet with healthy carbs like vegetables and lower carbs tend to lose twice as much weight as someone on a low fat diet. And many low fat diets actually lead to more weight gain as we ate more starches, more sugar, and wrecked out health.


This is why Jump Core shakes have a healthy lecithin – a type of fat that is really good for your body and your brain. Lecithin is a phospholipid, a compound made of fats and water-soluble chemicals, that is produced in the human liver and found in the brain. Lecithin helps break down cholesterol in the blood. 

Lecithin contains choline, which is a chemical your brain uses to communicate. Clinical research suggests that a diet rich in choline can lead to a sharper memory and help people with Alzheimer's. Lipid substances that contain choline, like lecithin, may improve the brain's functional pathways.


Jump shakes use lecithin from flax and sunflower which also contain healthy omega fats for heart health. Other companies use soy lecithin because it is cheaper – and it does not include the omegas that our shake does. This is one more reason we say our Shake That Tastes Like Cake is a health drink – not just for weight loss.

 

 

5. The Glycemic Index

The speed at which carb calories hit the system can have a dramatic effect on their potential to cause overeating and weight gain.  There are simple carbs that enter the blood stream fast – like cereal, pasta, bread. These jack up your blood sugar and make you hungrier. If you’ve eaten cereal for breakfast and then were starving two hours later this is why. And this is why restaurants put bread on the table before you order. You eat bread, look at the menu and get hungrier, ordering more and spending more.

So a fun secret is to eat the bread AFTER you have had a few bites of protein. Researchers from Cornell Medical College, found that the order in which different types of food are consumed has a significant impact on glucose and insulin levels.When the vegetables and protein were eaten before the carbohydrates, the researchers found that glucose levels were 29%, 37% and 17% lower at the 30, 60 and 120-minute checks, compared with when carbohydrates were consumed first. Also, insulin was found to be significantly lower when the participants ate vegetables and protein first.

 

So take a bite of protein, or eat your salad before touching the bread and will impact you less.

 

6. Fiber reduces calorie absorption

Fiber is a form of carbohydrate that contributes to satiety without contributing calories, because it is not absorbed into the body. Consequently, a 100-calorie high-fiber food will reduce appetite and subsequent eating more than a 100-calorie low-fiber food. Likewise, a person who increases his daily fiber consumption without making any conscious effort to eat less will wind up eating less anyway due to reduced appetite. Thus, a calorie inside a high-fiber food is not equal to a calorie inside a low-calorie food.

 

7. Protein – kills appetite. Pasta doesn’t’

The protein story doesn’t end with increased metabolism.

It also leads to significantly reduced appetite, making you eat fewer calories automatically.

Studies show that protein is by far the most filling macronutrient

n one study, people who increased their protein intake to 30% of calories, automatically started eating 441 fewer calories per day and lost 11 pounds (4.9 kg) in 12 weeks.

But if you eat pasta – you can eat several hundred calories and not feel full, vs. protein. And pasta will spike blood sugar, protein helps keep it stable.

 


So learn more and get back with the person who put you on this call to learn more. Join our Journey, get rewards, get loyalty points, get savings – and get better health guaranteed with our Everyone Wins program -pick a weight loss kit – from our Basic, Advance or Ultimate kits. Pick a program – Intermittent fast, Power of 2 30 day challenge, or the Twisted Keto/New You group. Get motivation, tips, recipes -and results. And at the end of 12 weeks EVERYONE wins a prize! And 3 times a year we reward those who had the best results and best reasons why they chose to get healthier – a grand prize that is lots of FUN.

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