Do You Absorb All of the Calories You Eat? • Cathe Friedrich What could be better than free calories – calories you take in that never get a chance to be stored as fat? Sounds pretty sweet, doesn’t it? Well, there is such a thing as free calories – sort of The truth is you only absorb a certain portion of the calories from foods you take in and how many you actually absorb depends on the macronutrient content of the food you’re eating As you