Good calories vs bad calories

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  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    dubird wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    skysiebaby wrote: »
    You may have seen a story doing the rounds about a teacher who lost 56lb eating nothing but McDonalds? I thought it was quite appropriate for this discussion, so I'm just gonna leave this here as I think it sums up some of this debate perfectly, especially the sentence at the end. Link to the full article below.

    "What did the experiment prove? That it’s acceptable to live off fast food? No. It reinforced what research and science has stated all along: caloric intake and expenditure are critical for weight loss and health.

    Regardless of Cisna eating 540 straight meals at McDonald’s, his health markers improved. Here are the improvements he made in the first three months:
    Cholesterol: started at 249 and lowered to 170
    Triglycerides: from 156 to 80
    LDL: from 170 to 113

    Those are terrific improvements in 90 days and you cannot claim he’s not healthier as a result of the experiment.

    And why are some people so upset? Because he “didn’t do enough” and should have eaten real foods? Come on, people. You’re missing the point entirely.

    It likely would not have been practical for this gentleman to eat nothing but real food every day for every single meal without fail for six months straight.

    People shouting that this doesn’t prove anything are missing the forest for the trees. How many millions of people in the United States alone are obese or overweight? If you think the answer is to tell everyone to trade their morning McDonald’s meal for a homemade omelet and cook dinner from scratch when they’re used to going out to eat is going to work … well … it hasn’t yet. And for most people it won’t.

    Demonstrating, as Cisna did, that it’s possible to lose weight and improve your health eating McDonald’s provides real world application for many people.

    Dr. Brad Schoenfeld said it well in response to criticism of the experiment:

    “The point is to show that if you reduce calories below expenditure, you’ll lose weight regardless of (and despite) the nutritional components. I’ll also add the most important aspect of any diet is adherence. Sure, it’s nice to speak of ideals. But what good is giving someone a “healthy” nutritional approach if they don’t follow it?”

    Well said, doc.

    It’s not always about what’s “ideal”. It may have to be about what’s doable for the individual at first."

    http://www.niashanks.com/teacher-lost-weight-eating-mcdonalds/

    He was fairly conservative in what he ate at Macca's and started walking for 45 minutes everyday which I guess was the whole point of the experiment, that macca's isn't all big hamburgers with bacon and smothered in cheese and that macros can be met.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/06/mcdonalds-nutrition-fast-food-mcdonalds-menu/4339395/

    He had two Egg White Delight McMuffins, a bowl of McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal and 1% milk for breakfast and, typically, a salad for lunch. Then, at dinner, he'd often have a more traditional Value Meal. He also adopted a new exercise regimen of walking 45 minutes daily.

    And also see the Twinkie diet

    I've never had a Twinkie in my life.

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    IMO...you're not missing much

    They're nowhere near as good as a mint Oreo :trollface:

    1) That's great, except I DESPISE mint. Don't know why, but I do.

    2) I do love the vanilla Oreos though, those are awesome!

    1) I started to offer a high five

    2) I changed my mind
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    What the others have said.

    The only thing I'd add is some people find certain combination of food more filling than others. So while the overall total weight loss wouldn't vary, you may find a 1400 calorie diet consisting of relatively high protein more satiating (and thus presumably easier to maintain) than a 1400 calorie diet of relatively high carbs. Each person tends to be different, though - there's not a 'one size fits all' magical combination.

    You're awesome even if you do like the wrong Oreos (mint is gross).
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    Hi. Can you lose weight by eating more calories but eating the right foods. I.e. could I lose more weight by eating 1400 calories of fruit and veg versus 1200 calories of fried food.

    1) For some people it appears to be true that the type of food (calorie) will affect their weight. 2) Protein takes more energy to use than carbs, 3) some foods create a greater thermogenic effect than others, 4)some people appear more likely to store certain macros as fat and lose eating a majority of other macros, and 5) some foods affect health and hormones which increase or decreases daily caloric requirements.

    6) I don't think it is a huge difference but I would guess the foods you choose could make the differenceof up to a couple of hundred calories per day being stored or burned.

    7) I certainly find it slightly easier to lose weight eating foods that I consider to be healthy. Some foods seem to "stick" to me easier than others.

    1) false
    2) negligible
    3) negligible
    4) false
    5) from what I understand, it's the lack of intake in general or of certain nutrients that causes a negative impact to hormones. I've never seen evidence that intake of a certain food causes conditions to slow the metabolism.
    6) I'm afraid you're greatly overestimating
    7) either this is all in your head or you're underestimating your intake when eating "sticky" foods

    I disagree with your assessment.

    The foods one eats won't make a large difference but they can slightly affect your CICO levels, mainly CO.

    I didn't say they wouldn't, just that the difference in CO is negligible.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    What the others have said.

    The only thing I'd add is some people find certain combination of food more filling than others. So while the overall total weight loss wouldn't vary, you may find a 1400 calorie diet consisting of relatively high protein more satiating (and thus presumably easier to maintain) than a 1400 calorie diet of relatively high carbs. Each person tends to be different, though - there's not a 'one size fits all' magical combination.

    You're awesome even if you do like the wrong Oreos (mint is gross).
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    Hi. Can you lose weight by eating more calories but eating the right foods. I.e. could I lose more weight by eating 1400 calories of fruit and veg versus 1200 calories of fried food.

    1) For some people it appears to be true that the type of food (calorie) will affect their weight. 2) Protein takes more energy to use than carbs, 3) some foods create a greater thermogenic effect than others, 4)some people appear more likely to store certain macros as fat and lose eating a majority of other macros, and 5) some foods affect health and hormones which increase or decreases daily caloric requirements.

    6) I don't think it is a huge difference but I would guess the foods you choose could make the differenceof up to a couple of hundred calories per day being stored or burned.

    7) I certainly find it slightly easier to lose weight eating foods that I consider to be healthy. Some foods seem to "stick" to me easier than others.

    1) false
    2) negligible
    3) negligible
    4) false
    5) from what I understand, it's the lack of intake in general or of certain nutrients that causes a negative impact to hormones. I've never seen evidence that intake of a certain food causes conditions to slow the metabolism.
    6) I'm afraid you're greatly overestimating
    7) either this is all in your head or you're underestimating your intake when eating "sticky" foods

    I didn't even see that one. Good you found it. Guess I'll have to get out the "Is a calorie a calorie" study where they showed a 300 kcal substitution of carbs for protein resulted in a whole 21 kcal more burned.

    Here it is.

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/899S.full

    Interesting.

    2.5 kg more loss in 12 weeks seems to validate the argument that a calorie is not a calorie. At least not within the context of weight control.

    Reading at least the rest of the abstract would be useful to not jump to a conclusion like that...

    I didn't jump to it. I read it in your link. Do you think the conclusions in your linked study are incorrect?

    Diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate produced an ≈2.5-kg greater weight loss after 12 wk of treatment. Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss. Thermodynamics dictate that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the macronutrient composition of the diet. Further research on differences in the composition of weight loss and on the influence of satiety on compliance with energy-restricted diets is needed to explain the observed increase in weight loss with diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate.

    The weight loss had nothing to do with the calories and was likely due to satiety and compliance of the diets.
    How that in any way "seems to validate the argument taht a calorie is not a calorie", I would need to ask a clairvoyant, because I'm drawing a blank here.

    Context.

    Which context? The difference had nothing to do with a calorie not being a calorie.
    Their conclusion is "a calorie is a calorie because: well, duhhhhh."

    Within the context of weight control. You know, the part you cut off my message when you quoted it. ;)

    It still had absolutely nothing to do with the calories as they implied a bigger than intended deficit was reached by eating less unintentionally through earlier satiety on one end or compliance issues on the other, not because of something to do with the calories in an isocaloric or even as this thread would be about, higher intake in the group that lost more.
    So...

    I think you need to read it again. It says they have no answer for the results.

    "Evidence indicates, however, that the difference in energy expenditure is small and can potentially account for less than one-third of the differences in weight loss that have been reported between high-protein or low-carbohydrate diets and high-carbohydrate or low-fat diets. As such, a calorie is a calorie. Further research is needed to identify the mechanisms that result in greater weight loss with one diet than with another."

    They also said: "Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss." and are aware that energy can't disappear. Which only leaves "Further research on differences in the composition of weight loss and on the influence of satiety on compliance with energy-restricted diets is needed to explain the observed increase in weight loss with diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate. "
    They know it's not because of less absorbed or more expended. They know energy can't disappear.
    This only leaves actually eating less.

    That is not what it says. If they know what it is, why would further research be needed. It repeatedly says they can't explain the results.

    Let's play how often can you ignore the same part of the same quote as if it wasn't there?

    Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss.

    This part says that differences in absorption and changes in expenditure don't sufficiently account for the differences. ("a calorie is a calorie")

    But here you are assuming that because they admit to not knowing why, it has to be differences in calorie amount consumed, right? Because they don't say that specifically. They say they don't know. And that's okay. If we knew everything about food and how our bodies use calories there would be no need for research.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »

    As am I.

    #Bromance

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  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    What the others have said.

    The only thing I'd add is some people find certain combination of food more filling than others. So while the overall total weight loss wouldn't vary, you may find a 1400 calorie diet consisting of relatively high protein more satiating (and thus presumably easier to maintain) than a 1400 calorie diet of relatively high carbs. Each person tends to be different, though - there's not a 'one size fits all' magical combination.

    You're awesome even if you do like the wrong Oreos (mint is gross).
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    Hi. Can you lose weight by eating more calories but eating the right foods. I.e. could I lose more weight by eating 1400 calories of fruit and veg versus 1200 calories of fried food.

    1) For some people it appears to be true that the type of food (calorie) will affect their weight. 2) Protein takes more energy to use than carbs, 3) some foods create a greater thermogenic effect than others, 4)some people appear more likely to store certain macros as fat and lose eating a majority of other macros, and 5) some foods affect health and hormones which increase or decreases daily caloric requirements.

    6) I don't think it is a huge difference but I would guess the foods you choose could make the differenceof up to a couple of hundred calories per day being stored or burned.

    7) I certainly find it slightly easier to lose weight eating foods that I consider to be healthy. Some foods seem to "stick" to me easier than others.

    1) false
    2) negligible
    3) negligible
    4) false
    5) from what I understand, it's the lack of intake in general or of certain nutrients that causes a negative impact to hormones. I've never seen evidence that intake of a certain food causes conditions to slow the metabolism.
    6) I'm afraid you're greatly overestimating
    7) either this is all in your head or you're underestimating your intake when eating "sticky" foods

    I didn't even see that one. Good you found it. Guess I'll have to get out the "Is a calorie a calorie" study where they showed a 300 kcal substitution of carbs for protein resulted in a whole 21 kcal more burned.

    Here it is.

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/899S.full

    Interesting.

    2.5 kg more loss in 12 weeks seems to validate the argument that a calorie is not a calorie. At least not within the context of weight control.

    Reading at least the rest of the abstract would be useful to not jump to a conclusion like that...

    I didn't jump to it. I read it in your link. Do you think the conclusions in your linked study are incorrect?

    Diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate produced an ≈2.5-kg greater weight loss after 12 wk of treatment. Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss. Thermodynamics dictate that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the macronutrient composition of the diet. Further research on differences in the composition of weight loss and on the influence of satiety on compliance with energy-restricted diets is needed to explain the observed increase in weight loss with diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate.

    The weight loss had nothing to do with the calories and was likely due to satiety and compliance of the diets.
    How that in any way "seems to validate the argument taht a calorie is not a calorie", I would need to ask a clairvoyant, because I'm drawing a blank here.

    Context.

    Which context? The difference had nothing to do with a calorie not being a calorie.
    Their conclusion is "a calorie is a calorie because: well, duhhhhh."

    Within the context of weight control. You know, the part you cut off my message when you quoted it. ;)

    It still had absolutely nothing to do with the calories as they implied a bigger than intended deficit was reached by eating less unintentionally through earlier satiety on one end or compliance issues on the other, not because of something to do with the calories in an isocaloric or even as this thread would be about, higher intake in the group that lost more.
    So...

    I think you need to read it again. It says they have no answer for the results.

    "Evidence indicates, however, that the difference in energy expenditure is small and can potentially account for less than one-third of the differences in weight loss that have been reported between high-protein or low-carbohydrate diets and high-carbohydrate or low-fat diets. As such, a calorie is a calorie. Further research is needed to identify the mechanisms that result in greater weight loss with one diet than with another."

    They also said: "Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss." and are aware that energy can't disappear. Which only leaves "Further research on differences in the composition of weight loss and on the influence of satiety on compliance with energy-restricted diets is needed to explain the observed increase in weight loss with diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate. "
    They know it's not because of less absorbed or more expended. They know energy can't disappear.
    This only leaves actually eating less.

    That is not what it says. If they know what it is, why would further research be needed. It repeatedly says they can't explain the results.

    Let's play how often can you ignore the same part of the same quote as if it wasn't there?

    Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss.

    This part says that differences in absorption and changes in expenditure don't sufficiently account for the differences. ("a calorie is a calorie")

    But here you are assuming that because they admit to not knowing why, it has to be differences in calorie amount consumed, right? Because they don't say that specifically. They say they don't know. And that's okay. If we knew everything about food and how our bodies use calories there would be no need for research.

    They know what it's not so they push in the direction of further research for what it could be.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    I'm sorry to COMPLETLY DISAGREE with all of you but "a calorie is a calorie" is FALSE. The body processes different foods completely differently which is why we eat (or should attempt to eat) a balanced diet. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars in the body which adds weight, particularly around ones midsection. Proteins are burned off/metabolized much differently and therefore don't make you gain weight the same way. I challenge two people in this forum: One of you eat 1200 calories/day of fried foods, cheese, and simple carbs. The other eat 1400 calories/day of lean protein, vegetables, fruit and whole grains (keeping dairy and carbs to a minimum or completely out of your diet). Do this for a month and I would bet that the latter will see more of a significant body change than the other. Ready. Set. GO!

    Sorry, but you have a complete and total misunderstanding of how the human metabolism works.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    edited January 2016
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    What the others have said.

    The only thing I'd add is some people find certain combination of food more filling than others. So while the overall total weight loss wouldn't vary, you may find a 1400 calorie diet consisting of relatively high protein more satiating (and thus presumably easier to maintain) than a 1400 calorie diet of relatively high carbs. Each person tends to be different, though - there's not a 'one size fits all' magical combination.

    You're awesome even if you do like the wrong Oreos (mint is gross).
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    Hi. Can you lose weight by eating more calories but eating the right foods. I.e. could I lose more weight by eating 1400 calories of fruit and veg versus 1200 calories of fried food.

    1) For some people it appears to be true that the type of food (calorie) will affect their weight. 2) Protein takes more energy to use than carbs, 3) some foods create a greater thermogenic effect than others, 4)some people appear more likely to store certain macros as fat and lose eating a majority of other macros, and 5) some foods affect health and hormones which increase or decreases daily caloric requirements.

    6) I don't think it is a huge difference but I would guess the foods you choose could make the differenceof up to a couple of hundred calories per day being stored or burned.

    7) I certainly find it slightly easier to lose weight eating foods that I consider to be healthy. Some foods seem to "stick" to me easier than others.

    1) false
    2) negligible
    3) negligible
    4) false
    5) from what I understand, it's the lack of intake in general or of certain nutrients that causes a negative impact to hormones. I've never seen evidence that intake of a certain food causes conditions to slow the metabolism.
    6) I'm afraid you're greatly overestimating
    7) either this is all in your head or you're underestimating your intake when eating "sticky" foods

    I didn't even see that one. Good you found it. Guess I'll have to get out the "Is a calorie a calorie" study where they showed a 300 kcal substitution of carbs for protein resulted in a whole 21 kcal more burned.

    Here it is.

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/899S.full

    Interesting.

    2.5 kg more loss in 12 weeks seems to validate the argument that a calorie is not a calorie. At least not within the context of weight control.

    Reading at least the rest of the abstract would be useful to not jump to a conclusion like that...

    I didn't jump to it. I read it in your link. Do you think the conclusions in your linked study are incorrect?

    Diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate produced an ≈2.5-kg greater weight loss after 12 wk of treatment. Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss. Thermodynamics dictate that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the macronutrient composition of the diet. Further research on differences in the composition of weight loss and on the influence of satiety on compliance with energy-restricted diets is needed to explain the observed increase in weight loss with diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate.

    The weight loss had nothing to do with the calories and was likely due to satiety and compliance of the diets.
    How that in any way "seems to validate the argument taht a calorie is not a calorie", I would need to ask a clairvoyant, because I'm drawing a blank here.

    Context.

    Which context? The difference had nothing to do with a calorie not being a calorie.
    Their conclusion is "a calorie is a calorie because: well, duhhhhh."

    Within the context of weight control. You know, the part you cut off my message when you quoted it. ;)

    It still had absolutely nothing to do with the calories as they implied a bigger than intended deficit was reached by eating less unintentionally through earlier satiety on one end or compliance issues on the other, not because of something to do with the calories in an isocaloric or even as this thread would be about, higher intake in the group that lost more.
    So...

    I think you need to read it again. It says they have no answer for the results.

    "Evidence indicates, however, that the difference in energy expenditure is small and can potentially account for less than one-third of the differences in weight loss that have been reported between high-protein or low-carbohydrate diets and high-carbohydrate or low-fat diets. As such, a calorie is a calorie. Further research is needed to identify the mechanisms that result in greater weight loss with one diet than with another."

    They also said: "Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss." and are aware that energy can't disappear. Which only leaves "Further research on differences in the composition of weight loss and on the influence of satiety on compliance with energy-restricted diets is needed to explain the observed increase in weight loss with diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate. "
    They know it's not because of less absorbed or more expended. They know energy can't disappear.
    This only leaves actually eating less.

    That is not what it says. If they know what it is, why would further research be needed. It repeatedly says they can't explain the results.

    Let's play how often can you ignore the same part of the same quote as if it wasn't there?

    Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss.

    This part says that differences in absorption and changes in expenditure don't sufficiently account for the differences. ("a calorie is a calorie")

    But here you are assuming that because they admit to not knowing why, it has to be differences in calorie amount consumed, right? Because they don't say that specifically. They say they don't know. And that's okay. If we knew everything about food and how our bodies use calories there would be no need for research.

    Well they do pretty much know BUT they are acting in accordance with proper science and not drawing conclusions past what their data support. That's why they are proposing the next subjects of research rather than divining it from outside the facts as a guru would. People should take note of the differences.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    I'm sorry to COMPLETLY DISAGREE with all of you but "a calorie is a calorie" is FALSE. The body processes different foods completely differently which is why we eat (or should attempt to eat) a balanced diet. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars in the body which adds weight, particularly around ones midsection. Proteins are burned off/metabolized much differently and therefore don't make you gain weight the same way. I challenge two people in this forum: One of you eat 1200 calories/day of fried foods, cheese, and simple carbs. The other eat 1400 calories/day of lean protein, vegetables, fruit and whole grains (keeping dairy and carbs to a minimum or completely out of your diet). Do this for a month and I would bet that the latter will see more of a significant body change than the other. Ready. Set. GO!

    strawman alert, strawman alert..

    no one is recommending a diet of 100% fried foods because it would be impossible to get adequate nutrition and hit all micros.

    Please go back and read through the whole thread before you make outlandish statements that are not true.

    Fried food, cheese, and simple carbs. Supplemented properly, macros and micros could be done. Not recommended or a tasty way to eat for me - I'd be sick from all of the oil. But it could be done. Shoot, it might even be possible to get the nutrition in without the supplements. Do the Texas State Fair thing and put together a normal meal and then mash it all together and toss it in the fryer.

    Either way, she'd still be wrong.

    I've heard that there is nothing they don't fry at that Fair. Is deep fried bacon going just a tad overboard?

    At the Texas State Fair, that's child's play. They've moved on from fried butter, fried bacon, fried beer, etc. Too easy and too simple. They have a competition every year for the most creative fried food. Couple of items that made the finalists last year: Chicken Fried Lobster with Champagne Gravy, Cowboy Corn Crunch, Deep Fried Alligator’s Egg Nest, Fried Beer-Battered Buffalo, Lone Star Pork Handle and Pretzel-Crusted Pollo Queso.

    I didn't go, so can't comment on taste.

    Don't remember what it was called, but last year at the rodeo we had a peanut butter cup, wrapped in cookie dough, battered, and then deep fried. It was amazing.

    At a recent fair near us they had a deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Coated in crushed Cap'n Crunch cereal, deep-fried, then drizzled with caramel and dusted with powdered sugar.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    auddii wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    I'm sorry to COMPLETLY DISAGREE with all of you but "a calorie is a calorie" is FALSE. The body processes different foods completely differently which is why we eat (or should attempt to eat) a balanced diet. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars in the body which adds weight, particularly around ones midsection. Proteins are burned off/metabolized much differently and therefore don't make you gain weight the same way. I challenge two people in this forum: One of you eat 1200 calories/day of fried foods, cheese, and simple carbs. The other eat 1400 calories/day of lean protein, vegetables, fruit and whole grains (keeping dairy and carbs to a minimum or completely out of your diet). Do this for a month and I would bet that the latter will see more of a significant body change than the other. Ready. Set. GO!

    strawman alert, strawman alert..

    no one is recommending a diet of 100% fried foods because it would be impossible to get adequate nutrition and hit all micros.

    Please go back and read through the whole thread before you make outlandish statements that are not true.

    Fried food, cheese, and simple carbs. Supplemented properly, macros and micros could be done. Not recommended or a tasty way to eat for me - I'd be sick from all of the oil. But it could be done. Shoot, it might even be possible to get the nutrition in without the supplements. Do the Texas State Fair thing and put together a normal meal and then mash it all together and toss it in the fryer.

    Either way, she'd still be wrong.

    I've heard that there is nothing they don't fry at that Fair. Is deep fried bacon going just a tad overboard?

    At the Texas State Fair, that's child's play. They've moved on from fried butter, fried bacon, fried beer, etc. Too easy and too simple. They have a competition every year for the most creative fried food. Couple of items that made the finalists last year: Chicken Fried Lobster with Champagne Gravy, Cowboy Corn Crunch, Deep Fried Alligator’s Egg Nest, Fried Beer-Battered Buffalo, Lone Star Pork Handle and Pretzel-Crusted Pollo Queso.

    I didn't go, so can't comment on taste.

    Don't remember what it was called, but last year at the rodeo we had a peanut butter cup, wrapped in cookie dough, battered, and then deep fried. It was amazing.

    At a recent fair near us they had a deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Coated in crushed Cap'n Crunch cereal, deep-fried, then drizzled with caramel and dusted with powdered sugar.

    Just wow.
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,399 Member
    I think some people might have missed the point of the entire "A calorie is a calorie" study. After a great deal of review and attempts to figure out the energy differences, they really excluded nothing as a possible cause. The went into detail about the variances that could happen in a number of diets due to the factors in the Atwater factors, as well as specifics about other studies. Of all the studies they summarized, they really came to no solid conclusion.

    In the end all they did was confirm that energy balance exists, and that they really aren't 100% sure on much of anything due to having so many variables. Even when reviewing the data from 9 studies, they really didn't come up with solid answers, other than that they could not deny an inexact science.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    auddii wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    I'm sorry to COMPLETLY DISAGREE with all of you but "a calorie is a calorie" is FALSE. The body processes different foods completely differently which is why we eat (or should attempt to eat) a balanced diet. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars in the body which adds weight, particularly around ones midsection. Proteins are burned off/metabolized much differently and therefore don't make you gain weight the same way. I challenge two people in this forum: One of you eat 1200 calories/day of fried foods, cheese, and simple carbs. The other eat 1400 calories/day of lean protein, vegetables, fruit and whole grains (keeping dairy and carbs to a minimum or completely out of your diet). Do this for a month and I would bet that the latter will see more of a significant body change than the other. Ready. Set. GO!

    strawman alert, strawman alert..

    no one is recommending a diet of 100% fried foods because it would be impossible to get adequate nutrition and hit all micros.

    Please go back and read through the whole thread before you make outlandish statements that are not true.

    Fried food, cheese, and simple carbs. Supplemented properly, macros and micros could be done. Not recommended or a tasty way to eat for me - I'd be sick from all of the oil. But it could be done. Shoot, it might even be possible to get the nutrition in without the supplements. Do the Texas State Fair thing and put together a normal meal and then mash it all together and toss it in the fryer.

    Either way, she'd still be wrong.

    I've heard that there is nothing they don't fry at that Fair. Is deep fried bacon going just a tad overboard?

    At the Texas State Fair, that's child's play. They've moved on from fried butter, fried bacon, fried beer, etc. Too easy and too simple. They have a competition every year for the most creative fried food. Couple of items that made the finalists last year: Chicken Fried Lobster with Champagne Gravy, Cowboy Corn Crunch, Deep Fried Alligator’s Egg Nest, Fried Beer-Battered Buffalo, Lone Star Pork Handle and Pretzel-Crusted Pollo Queso.

    I didn't go, so can't comment on taste.

    Don't remember what it was called, but last year at the rodeo we had a peanut butter cup, wrapped in cookie dough, battered, and then deep fried. It was amazing.

    At a recent fair near us they had a deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Coated in crushed Cap'n Crunch cereal, deep-fried, then drizzled with caramel and dusted with powdered sugar.

    Holy carnival food batman!
    Those are some good calories right there.
  • AnvilHead
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    Carlos_421 wrote: »
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    I'm sorry to COMPLETLY DISAGREE with all of you but "a calorie is a calorie" is FALSE. The body processes different foods completely differently which is why we eat (or should attempt to eat) a balanced diet. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars in the body which adds weight, particularly around ones midsection. Proteins are burned off/metabolized much differently and therefore don't make you gain weight the same way. I challenge two people in this forum: One of you eat 1200 calories/day of fried foods, cheese, and simple carbs. The other eat 1400 calories/day of lean protein, vegetables, fruit and whole grains (keeping dairy and carbs to a minimum or completely out of your diet). Do this for a month and I would bet that the latter will see more of a significant body change than the other. Ready. Set. GO!

    strawman alert, strawman alert..

    no one is recommending a diet of 100% fried foods because it would be impossible to get adequate nutrition and hit all micros.

    Please go back and read through the whole thread before you make outlandish statements that are not true.

    Fried food, cheese, and simple carbs. Supplemented properly, macros and micros could be done. Not recommended or a tasty way to eat for me - I'd be sick from all of the oil. But it could be done. Shoot, it might even be possible to get the nutrition in without the supplements. Do the Texas State Fair thing and put together a normal meal and then mash it all together and toss it in the fryer.

    Either way, she'd still be wrong.

    I've heard that there is nothing they don't fry at that Fair. Is deep fried bacon going just a tad overboard?

    At the Texas State Fair, that's child's play. They've moved on from fried butter, fried bacon, fried beer, etc. Too easy and too simple. They have a competition every year for the most creative fried food. Couple of items that made the finalists last year: Chicken Fried Lobster with Champagne Gravy, Cowboy Corn Crunch, Deep Fried Alligator’s Egg Nest, Fried Beer-Battered Buffalo, Lone Star Pork Handle and Pretzel-Crusted Pollo Queso.

    I didn't go, so can't comment on taste.

    Don't remember what it was called, but last year at the rodeo we had a peanut butter cup, wrapped in cookie dough, battered, and then deep fried. It was amazing.

    At a recent fair near us they had a deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Coated in crushed Cap'n Crunch cereal, deep-fried, then drizzled with caramel and dusted with powdered sugar.

    Holy carnival food batman!
    Those are some good calories right there.

    You could hear angels sing every time they dropped one in the deep fryer.