有一種觀念，長期潛移默化的在人際之間傳承。它存在於同儕之間，存在於親子之間，存在於茶餘飯後的閒談裡，也存在於營養學相關的教室中。這個觀念的核心，就是熱量。

一不小心，當你手持菜單時，「高熱量食物」便浮上心頭；「不能再胖下去」的警訊，也同步在腦海中響起。於是，好不容易點完餐，心中卻難免多了一層失落。

印象中，熱量教育最興盛的時期，應該是在八零年代。不知道是哪位大師掀起了熱量庫存的時代，從此人體被想像成一個熱量帳戶：熱量攝入，減掉熱量消耗，剩下的就是熱量庫存。

減肥市場，也就在這樣的基礎上蓬勃發展。民眾為了減肥餐、減重操與各式各樣的熱量管理方法，付出了大把鈔票。四十年過去，那一條線性的觀念，依然盤據在多少成年人的思想裡，揮之不去。

那一本熱量手冊，或許至今仍保存在許多女性朋友的書架上。招待好友到家中聚餐之前，總要翻開書中的熱量提示，避免姊妹們事後抱怨，因為一場聚餐而發胖。

那些好吃卻被歸類為高熱量的美食，早已被你束之高閣許久。只是，身上的那一圈脂肪依然存在，體脂機上所顯示的內臟脂肪數字，也依舊很難讓自己真正滿意。

 

這一條線性思考，其實早已在我們日常生活的某種經驗中被切斷，只是我們從未深入理解其中的道理。

它就發生在一個小時前的極度飢餓，對比此刻的完全不餓。重點是，這中間沒有任何食物從嘴巴進入身體。

「身體去開冰箱找到食物」是我在課堂上的說法。這裡所謂的冰箱，指的是肝臟所儲存的肝醣。這是身體在打開冷凍庫，動用脂肪之前，所採取的應急方案。

我們必須在此暫停，把這一段身體劇情的細節抽絲剝繭。

首先，是什麼訊號讓我們感覺到飢餓？答案是荷爾蒙。接著，是什麼指令告訴身體，先從肝臟找到食物？答案也是荷爾蒙。最後，又是什麼訊息讓我們不再感覺到飢餓？答案依然是荷爾蒙。

當我們釐清身體裡面的運作系統，再把前述那一條熱量線拿出來對比，便會發現一個幾乎驚天動地的真相：那條製造了將近半世紀養生觀念紛擾的卡路里直線，早已被身體內在的運作真相丟進了垃圾桶。

請繼續深思，這些錯誤觀念究竟斷送了多少人對身體的理解？相反的，創造了多少高獲利的製藥與減重產業？

這一條深植人心的思考線，還有更大的影響層級。由於它忽視荷爾蒙，由於它忽略胰島素，它拉出了無限多條失誤的研判線。結果，更多人被錯誤的觀念牽引，更多人被醫療的結果論帶進無底洞。

 

由於卡路里觀念深植人心，於是產生了燃燒卡路里的生活需求，也就是運動；接著，又產生了減少卡路里的要求，也就是飲食控制。

因此，「少吃」與「多運動」彷彿成為一種鑲在人類基因裡的提示。這個教條無論怎麼評論，都不能說完全沒有道理。它最大的問題，在於無法解決最根本的問題。

最根本的問題，存在於我們身體裡面的平衡系統：內分泌。

這個系統獨立於卡路里的教條之外，也就是說，在熱量攝入與熱量消耗之間，還存在一個與熱量計算無關的訊息系統。它不是單純的數學，也不是單純的化學；它更接近身體的物理（頻率）與生理（信息）運作，裡面隱藏著大自然維持平衡的法則。

每天不停進食的生活習慣，對身體造成的最大傷害，就是不停干擾這個平衡系統。人只圖滿足口腹之慾，卻沒有意識到，這種日復一日的干擾，正在預言未來身體的巨大反撲。

當你繼續透過線性思考來研判斷食，就會出現健身教練口中的「消耗肌肉」論調。他們不知道，斷食是身體平衡系統重新整理的必要過程；他們不知道，斷食是讓身體各種荷爾蒙回到平衡的重要歷程。

其實，害怕斷食也源自線性思考。人們只看見「習慣要吃」與「必須不吃」之間的距離，卻忽略身體的平衡機制；只看見空腹，卻看不見身體正在透過荷爾蒙形成新的感知；只看見表面的不進食，卻忽略我們真正必須尊重的身體意識。

 

人與人之間，存在頻率是否相容的問題。價值觀形成思考頻率，不相容，就不容易相處，也不容易共事。

身體的平衡系統，同樣有頻率是否相容的顧慮。阻抗，就是頻率不相容之後的最終處置。我們只顧著在飯桌上計算熱量，卻不知道身體的頻率需求，正不斷被我們侵犯。

如果你還記得防毒醫師的教條，他告訴我們要努力避開那些會毒害身體的物質，也提醒我們要避開生食。這種消極的教育，所忽略的正是身體積極處理平衡的內在能力。在防範的教條之下，養生失去了樂觀進取的態度。

一旦把身體的訊息系統隔離，這些線性教育聽起來都很有道理。它和醫學教育只處理症狀的理路一致，於是生病的人永遠不會真正知道，自己究竟是如何一步一步失去與身體的連結。

冷靜思考，我們都希望人類的未來更加興旺，也都希望子子孫孫能夠更豐盛、更幸福。可是，如果我們不把腦袋中的錯誤思想，以及生活中的錯誤習慣連根拔除，或許我們的子女早已在潛移默化中，複製了我們的觀念模組與生活模式。

 

文章最後，讓我把那個長期被我們冷眼旁觀的荷爾蒙請出來。它，就是你我目前都很熟悉的胰島素。

這不是要否定急症處理與必要醫療，而是提醒我們必須認真思考：每天多次從胰臟釋放大量胰島素，長期下來，會對身體造成什麼效應？因為許多文明重症，幾乎都和這種生活模式的結局脫離不了關係。

聚焦錯誤，結果就是失焦。幾十年來，我們一直思念卡路里，最後終於失去了與自己身體最重要的連結。內分泌系統所執行的平衡任務，被我們長期冷落；身體透過荷爾蒙發出的訊息，也被我們一再忽視。

結果，失衡不斷發生，而我們卻仍然停留在那一條線性思考裡，繼續用錯誤的觀念糟蹋自己的生命。

 

（食物不只是熱量，它還帶有訊息。）

 

The Tragedy of Clinging to Calories

There is an idea that has long been passed down quietly and imperceptibly between people. It exists among peers, between parents and children, in casual conversations after meals, and even in classrooms related to nutrition. At the center of this idea is one thing: calories.

Before you know it, when you are holding a menu in your hand, the thought of “high-calorie food” rises to the surface. At the same time, the warning of “I cannot keep gaining weight” begins to sound in your mind. And so, even after finally placing your order, a layer of disappointment quietly settles in your heart.

As I remember it, calorie education seemed to reach its peak in the 1980s. I do not know which master first ushered in the era of calorie accounting, but from that point on, the human body was imagined as a calorie account: calories consumed minus calories burned equals calories stored.

The weight-loss market flourished on this very foundation. People spent large sums of money on diet meals, weight-loss exercises, and all kinds of calorie-management methods. Forty years have passed, yet that linear concept still occupies the minds of countless adults, refusing to disappear.

Perhaps that calorie handbook is still sitting on the bookshelves of many women today. Before inviting friends over for a meal, one might still open the book and check the calorie reminders, hoping to avoid complaints from sisters who fear gaining weight after a gathering.

Those delicious foods classified as high-calorie have long been placed on a distant shelf in your life. And yet, the ring of fat around your body remains. The visceral fat number displayed on the body composition scale still makes it difficult to feel truly satisfied.

This linear way of thinking has actually already been interrupted by a certain experience in our everyday lives. We simply have never understood its deeper meaning.

It happens in the contrast between feeling extremely hungry an hour ago and feeling completely not hungry now. The key point is this: during that time, no food entered the body through the mouth.

“The body goes to the refrigerator and finds food.” This is how I describe it in class. The refrigerator I refer to is the glycogen stored in the liver. This is the emergency solution the body uses before opening the freezer and mobilizing fat.

We must pause here and carefully untangle the details of this bodily drama.

First, what signal makes us feel hungry? The answer is hormones. Next, what instruction tells the body to first find food in the liver? The answer is also hormones. Finally, what message makes us stop feeling hungry? The answer remains hormones.

Once we clarify the operating system inside the body and then compare it with the calorie line mentioned earlier, we discover an almost earth-shaking truth: the straight line of calories that has created nearly half a century of confusion in health thinking has already been thrown into the trash by the truth of the body’s inner operation.

Please continue to think deeply: how many people have had their understanding of the body destroyed by these mistaken ideas? Conversely, how many highly profitable pharmaceutical and weight-loss industries have been created by them?

This line of thinking, deeply rooted in people’s minds, has an even greater level of influence. Because it ignores hormones, because it overlooks insulin, it draws out countless lines of mistaken judgment. As a result, more people are led by erroneous concepts, and more people are pulled into the bottomless pit of medical consequentialism.

Because the calorie concept is so deeply rooted, a lifestyle demand to burn calories emerged, namely exercise. Then came the demand to reduce calories, namely dietary restriction.

As a result, “eat less” and “exercise more” seem to have become a reminder embedded in human genes. No matter how one evaluates this doctrine, it cannot be said to be completely unreasonable. Its greatest problem is that it cannot solve the most fundamental issue.

The most fundamental issue lies in the balance system within our body: the endocrine system.

This system exists independently of the doctrine of calories. In other words, between calorie intake and calorie expenditure, there is still an information system unrelated to calorie calculation. It is not merely mathematics, nor merely chemistry. It is closer to the body’s physical operation of frequency and physiological operation of information. Hidden within it is nature’s law of maintaining balance.

The greatest harm caused by the habit of eating constantly every day is that it continuously interferes with this balance system. Human beings seek only to satisfy the appetite of the mouth, without realizing that this day-after-day interference is already predicting a tremendous future backlash from the body.

When you continue to judge fasting through linear thinking, the claim of “muscle loss” from fitness trainers will appear. They do not know that fasting is a necessary process through which the body’s balance system reorganizes itself. They do not know that fasting is an important journey through which various hormones in the body return to balance.

In truth, the fear of fasting also comes from linear thinking. People only see the distance between “being used to eating” and “having to not eat,” yet they ignore the body’s balancing mechanism. They only see an empty stomach, but fail to see that the body is forming a new perception through hormones. They only see the surface act of not eating, but overlook the bodily awareness we must truly respect.

Between people, there is the question of whether frequencies are compatible. Values form a frequency of thought. When frequencies are incompatible, people do not easily get along, nor do they easily work together.

The body’s balance system also carries the concern of whether frequencies are compatible. Impedance is the final response when frequencies become incompatible. We only care about calculating calories at the dining table, without knowing that the body’s need for frequency is being continuously violated by us.

If you still remember the doctrine of the anti-toxin doctor, he tells us to work hard to avoid substances that poison the body, and also reminds us to avoid raw food. What this passive education overlooks is precisely the body’s active inner ability to handle balance. Under the doctrine of prevention, health cultivation loses its optimistic and progressive spirit.

Once the body’s information system is isolated, these linear forms of education all sound reasonable. They are consistent with the logic of medical education that only deals with symptoms. As a result, those who are ill will never truly know how they lost their connection with the body step by step.

Thinking calmly, we all hope that the future of humanity will become more prosperous. We all hope that our children and grandchildren will live more abundant and happier lives. But if we do not uproot the wrong ideas in our minds and the wrong habits in our lives, perhaps our children have already, through imperceptible influence, copied our conceptual modules and lifestyle patterns.

At the end of this article, allow me to bring forward the hormone that has long been coldly overlooked by us. It is the one we are all now very familiar with: insulin.

This is not to deny emergency care or necessary medical treatment. Rather, it is to remind us that we must think seriously: what effect does it have on the body when the pancreas releases large amounts of insulin many times a day, day after day, over a long period of time? Many severe diseases of civilization are almost inseparable from the consequences of this lifestyle pattern.

When the focus is wrong, the result is loss of focus. For decades, we have kept our attention fixed on calories, and in the end, we have lost the most important connection with our own body. The balancing task carried out by the endocrine system has long been neglected by us. The messages sent by the body through hormones have also been ignored again and again.

As a result, imbalance continues to occur, while we remain trapped in that same linear way of thinking, continuing to ruin our lives with mistaken ideas.