Dr. Michael Greger

You ate, you know, two pints of strawberry ice cream.

That would fill up your stomach.

You'd be full, and you'd get over 2,000 calories, all the calories you need for the day.

To do that same thing with strawberries, 44 cups.

44 cups of strawberries to get 2,000 calories.

That's like filling your stomach to bursting 11 times a day.

You couldn't even do it physically, right?

And that's this concept of calorie density.

And so that's why something like oil, people drizzle oil on something.

That is the single most calorie-dense food on the planet.

Even butter has a little water in it, so it doesn't have that much calories.

One tablespoon, 120 calories.

So you drizzle it on, you wouldn't even taste it.

I mean, you'd see it'll be a little glistening or something.

You just add 120 calories.

What, are you crazy?

For that same 100 calories, you could add like, you know, two cups of blackberries or something.

That would actually fill you up a little bit, right?

And think all the nutrition you'd get with that, right?

Instead, I mean, oil may have some fat-soluble vitamins, a little vitamin E or something.