A calorie is a calorie ...

nutmegoreo

leanjogreen18 wrote: »

nutmegoreo wrote: »

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

mph323 wrote: »

Tacklewasher wrote: »

J72FIT wrote: »

http://www.triathlete.com/2014/04/nutrition/5-signs-diet-diet-cult_98094

Bookmarked and thank you for this.

Still can't believe there is a blood type diet.

Seriously, it was a thing years ago. My bloodtype is AB neg and a couple of (younger) family members actually asked if I read the book. Very depressing news for AB blood types - we're very fragile and apparently most food gives us cancer.

This pops up on MFP every once in a while.

I'm a B, and apparently we are supposed to eat like riders on the steppes (or Dothraki, as I like to think of it). Recommendations are lots of goat, absolutely no chicken, and fermented mare's milk (well, this last one was really just lots of dairy, but I like it my way).

I love that diet.

Well, I'm also B, but I'll pass on the goat. Totally down with the dairy, though.

Every type of goat dairy product I've tried tastes like the animal smells. I just can't consume it.

Ah so the blood type diet would work for you:)

I am O+, not sure if goat milk is on my dietary list. If it was the only thing I was allowed to eat, I would lose so much, so fast. I remember looking at it years ago, and thinking that there was no way I was going to make those dietary changes.

amusedmonkey

mph323 wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

mph323 wrote: »

Tacklewasher wrote: »

J72FIT wrote: »

http://www.triathlete.com/2014/04/nutrition/5-signs-diet-diet-cult_98094

Bookmarked and thank you for this.

Still can't believe there is a blood type diet.

Seriously, it was a thing years ago. My bloodtype is AB neg and a couple of (younger) family members actually asked if I read the book. Very depressing news for AB blood types - we're very fragile and apparently most food gives us cancer.

This pops up on MFP every once in a while.

I'm a B, and apparently we are supposed to eat like riders on the steppes (or Dothraki, as I like to think of it). Recommendations are lots of goat, absolutely no chicken, and fermented mare's milk (well, this last one was really just lots of dairy, but I like it my way).

I love that diet.

Inexplicably, I can't have full-fat dairy, but apparently fat-free is OK. And I can't have chicken, but I can have rabbit. I've never had rabbit but people tell me it tastes like chicken, so it's probably not safe, right?

Well, this diet would surely make me lose weight. Apparently I come from the earliest humans pre agriculture. That's quite fitting because I have an unhealthy fascination with prehistoric parietal art. Must be my roots.

Anyway, I do best on red meat and I should avoid grains, beans. I should also avoid most dairy except for butter and goat cheese (what is this fascination with goats??). I can't have most nuts and seeds, cruciferous vegetables, nightshades, avocados, potatoes, most fruits except for figs and plums. I also can't have coffee, black tea, vanilla or cinnamon. Basically I can't have 99% of my current diet, and what I should be eating makes up 1% of the things I like. That's some awesome calorie reduction.

French_Peasant

sydney_bosque wrote: »

Look, I have a degree in organic produce, and have since studied a LOT about nutrition.

All calories are not equal. That's like saying, "A pound is a pound!" When you lose weight. No. You could lose a pound of fat, and that would be awesome. Or, you could lose a pound of muscle, which is horrible. It's much more complex.

Put simply, the type of calories we eat determine how well our systems function. And, primarily important to weight loss, they determine blood sugar and insulin levels, along with other hormones that basically decide how you will use a calorie.

Bottom line: A calorie from white bread or refined sugar is most efficiently stored in your body as reserve energy in the form of glucose. Guess what the organ is for energy storage? Yep. Fat cells.

However, a calorie that comes from broccoli takes nearly double the energy to convert it into glucose, and is much more efficiently broken down into usable vitamins and minerals. Therefore, 100 calories from a donut will go directly to your waist. 100 calories from a vegetable will go towards fueling your systems. Mainly your excretory system; which is what actually gets stuff out of storage in your fat cells and eliminated from the body.

So, no. A calorie is not just a calorie.

So, is a degree in "Organic Produce" like a BS in Agricultural Science from a major land-grant university, or is it something you send away for in the back of Mother Earth News, or somewhere in between? It just seems like an oddly specific and limited degree; most majors are things like "Sustainable Ag Systems" or "Ag Management" or "Ag Engineering," etc. Just curious.