Theoretic question

neanderthin

Hey thanks I learned something new. Lard is classified as junk food and that an all lard diet really only means 70% lard That's simple fabulous.

bulletfoss

Hey thanks I learned something new. Lard is classified as junk food and that an all lard diet really only means 70% lard That's simple fabulous.

I'm not being funny, but if you don't like my question or thread, discontinue reading and post no more, simple as that.

Iron_Feline

So, from what I understand, regardless of whether you want to be "healthy" or not - a calorie is still a calorie, regardless of it's source.

What really matters is when you are in deficit or excess of your daily MAINTAINING intake, that's where the sources play a bigger part on how quickly you lose or gain.

So this train wreck of a thread as been about the qualities of calories and if they matter on a deficit? :huh:

You couldn't have worded it better op?

CoachReddy

to simply lose weight, yes, cal in/cal out is all that matters. however if you want to maintain muscle while dropping fat, you have be be conscious of macros. if you want to make sure you're healthy and free of disease, you need to be conscious of micros. so if you've got a ton to lose, starting out with cal in/cal out is the way to go. However, once you get past that point, and you're looking for a specific body type/look or you're concerned about disease and health, you have to start worrying about where your nutrition comes from.

Please could you briefly explain macros/micros?

macros are protein, fat and carbs. these are the most important things to keep track of after calories.

micronutrients are your vitamins and minerals, fiber, sugar, cholesterol, sodium, etc. if you're meeting your macro goals, USUALLY these numbers will be fine. However if you're eating a lot of processed foods/fast foods/etc, you may have issues on the micronutrient front

quirkytizzy

So, from what I understand, regardless of whether you want to be "healthy" or not - a calorie is still a calorie, regardless of it's source.

What really matters is when you are in deficit or excess of your daily MAINTAINING intake, that's where the sources play a bigger part on how quickly you lose or gain.

So this train wreck of a thread as been about the qualities of calories and if they matter on a deficit? :huh:

You couldn't have worded it better op?

That's about my response. *blink blink* What a silly fit to throw a tantrum over when people don't answer your (apparently poorly worded) question.

PikaKnight

So, from what I understand, regardless of whether you want to be "healthy" or not - a calorie is still a calorie, regardless of it's source.

What really matters is when you are in deficit or excess of your daily MAINTAINING intake, that's where the sources play a bigger part on how quickly you lose or gain.

So this train wreck of a thread as been about the qualities of calories and if they matter on a deficit? :huh:

You couldn't have worded it better op?

That's about my response. *blink blink* What a silly fit to throw a tantrum over when people don't answer your (apparently poorly worded) question.

I was wondering myself.

pucenavel

So, quite alot of unpleasent things would happen.
Firstly, you can wind up looking like those poor children in Africa they show on commercials that you can "save a life for just the cost of a cup of coffee and a news paper a day", who are priactially skin and bones, but have very large stomaches and almost look like they are 8 months pregnant. They have what is known as kwashiorkor. It is defined as protien energy malnutrition. Meaning, you are getting enough calories but not enough protien, so you body breaks down its muscles. Side effects of this include edema, muscle wasting, dermatoses and depigmentation,diarrhea, fatty liver and organs, anema. changes in hair texture or hair loss, growth failure, and obviously irritability. This disease is more common in children then adults. It typically occurs in developing countries, when a child is weaned off nutritionally balanced breastmik to early (typically when a sibling is born), and put on a very high carb diet. Although, the lard only diet would not have carbs, it is still void of protien which is what is mainly causing the symptoms.

Next, your brain runs on glucose. It is a picky eater, it pretty much only likes glucose. If you eat lard, you are not suppying it with glucose. So what is it to do once it uses up all the glucos that you have stored (which is not alot). But, it can make glucose using fat and protien through gluconeogenisis, but wait, there is not protien in your diet, so it will have you break down your muscle mass. Eventually with not carbs or protien you will begin to rely on fat only for brain food and your body will break down fats to ketones and go into a state of ketoasidosis. Not only will this give you bad breath, but since your brain does not like ketones as its main food source, your body will not function propertly, I would imagine being very disoriented for starters, and since your brain controls pretty much everything in your body, you want to keep it happy with glucose. All those ketones floating around also change the PH of your blood which pisses off the kidneys and other organs as wel which can result in hypotension, deyhdration, and and unhealthy increase in heart rate.

After that, you would be extreamly malnurished. You would be lacking all major vitamins. So I would at least suggest you take a mutlivitamin with your new all lard diet. Some vitamin deficiencies you will get will include, good old scruvy from lack of vitamin C, enemia from lack of iron, blindness from lack of vitamin A, Pellegra and Beri Beri from lack of B vitamins, osteoperosis from lack of calcium, there are just a few that I could name off the top of my head, but believe me, there are much more and they are not pleasent.

I'd imagine all these side effects of a fat only diet (plus it being saturated animal most likely makes it worse), will eventually kill you.

However, fruits and vegetables alone, you can manage to have a healthy balanced diet. It is full of vitamins and minerals for one. You wil get plenty of carbs and glucose for your brain, protien from beans, and fat from avacodos and seeds.

BAM!!

CoachReddy

So, quite alot of unpleasent things would happen.
Firstly, you can wind up looking like those poor children in Africa they show on commercials that you can "save a life for just the cost of a cup of coffee and a news paper a day", who are priactially skin and bones, but have very large stomaches and almost look like they are 8 months pregnant. They have what is known as kwashiorkor. It is defined as protien energy malnutrition. Meaning, you are getting enough calories but not enough protien, so you body breaks down its muscles. Side effects of this include edema, muscle wasting, dermatoses and depigmentation,diarrhea, fatty liver and organs, anema. changes in hair texture or hair loss, growth failure, and obviously irritability. This disease is more common in children then adults. It typically occurs in developing countries, when a child is weaned off nutritionally balanced breastmik to early (typically when a sibling is born), and put on a very high carb diet. Although, the lard only diet would not have carbs, it is still void of protien which is what is mainly causing the symptoms.

Next, your brain runs on glucose. It is a picky eater, it pretty much only likes glucose. If you eat lard, you are not suppying it with glucose. So what is it to do once it uses up all the glucos that you have stored (which is not alot). But, it can make glucose using fat and protien through gluconeogenisis, but wait, there is not protien in your diet, so it will have you break down your muscle mass. Eventually with not carbs or protien you will begin to rely on fat only for brain food and your body will break down fats to ketones and go into a state of ketoasidosis. Not only will this give you bad breath, but since your brain does not like ketones as its main food source, your body will not function propertly, I would imagine being very disoriented for starters, and since your brain controls pretty much everything in your body, you want to keep it happy with glucose. All those ketones floating around also change the PH of your blood which pisses off the kidneys and other organs as wel which can result in hypotension, deyhdration, and and unhealthy increase in heart rate.

After that, you would be extreamly malnurished. You would be lacking all major vitamins. So I would at least suggest you take a mutlivitamin with your new all lard diet. Some vitamin deficiencies you will get will include, good old scruvy from lack of vitamin C, enemia from lack of iron, blindness from lack of vitamin A, Pellegra and Beri Beri from lack of B vitamins, osteoperosis from lack of calcium, there are just a few that I could name off the top of my head, but believe me, there are much more and they are not pleasent.

I'd imagine all these side effects of a fat only diet (plus it being saturated animal most likely makes it worse), will eventually kill you.

However, fruits and vegetables alone, you can manage to have a healthy balanced diet. It is full of vitamins and minerals for one. You wil get plenty of carbs and glucose for your brain, protien from beans, and fat from avacodos and seeds.

BAM!!

seeds aren't fruits or vegetables, and no, you can't have a healthy balanced diet on just fruits and veggies. you will be severely lacking in both protein and fat unless you use powders like hemp or other supplements.

pucenavel

...or nuts, legumes, seeds and other "plant matter".

You can get all the nutrients you need from plant matter.

...and for the record, I'm no vegetarian. I eat meat. Lots of it. I just happen to know that you can live quite successfully and healthy without eating animals.

GGB808

Just saw your question, here are my two cents of common sense:

Assuming my car needs 1 gal of gas to run 10 miles, will the car run the same amount of miles if I put 1 gal of water?

neanderthin

So, quite alot of unpleasent things would happen.
Firstly, you can wind up looking like those poor children in Africa they show on commercials that you can "save a life for just the cost of a cup of coffee and a news paper a day", who are priactially skin and bones, but have very large stomaches and almost look like they are 8 months pregnant. They have what is known as kwashiorkor. It is defined as protien energy malnutrition. Meaning, you are getting enough calories but not enough protien, so you body breaks down its muscles. Side effects of this include edema, muscle wasting, dermatoses and depigmentation,diarrhea, fatty liver and organs, anema. changes in hair texture or hair loss, growth failure, and obviously irritability. This disease is more common in children then adults. It typically occurs in developing countries, when a child is weaned off nutritionally balanced breastmik to early (typically when a sibling is born), and put on a very high carb diet. Although, the lard only diet would not have carbs, it is still void of protien which is what is mainly causing the symptoms.

Next, your brain runs on glucose. It is a picky eater, it pretty much only likes glucose. If you eat lard, you are not suppying it with glucose. So what is it to do once it uses up all the glucos that you have stored (which is not alot). But, it can make glucose using fat and protien through gluconeogenisis, but wait, there is not protien in your diet, so it will have you break down your muscle mass. Eventually with not carbs or protien you will begin to rely on fat only for brain food and your body will break down fats to ketones and go into a state of ketoasidosis. Not only will this give you bad breath, but since your brain does not like ketones as its main food source, your body will not function propertly, I would imagine being very disoriented for starters, and since your brain controls pretty much everything in your body, you want to keep it happy with glucose. All those ketones floating around also change the PH of your blood which pisses off the kidneys and other organs as wel which can result in hypotension, deyhdration, and and unhealthy increase in heart rate.

After that, you would be extreamly malnurished. You would be lacking all major vitamins. So I would at least suggest you take a mutlivitamin with your new all lard diet. Some vitamin deficiencies you will get will include, good old scruvy from lack of vitamin C, enemia from lack of iron, blindness from lack of vitamin A, Pellegra and Beri Beri from lack of B vitamins, osteoperosis from lack of calcium, there are just a few that I could name off the top of my head, but believe me, there are much more and they are not pleasent.

I'd imagine all these side effects of a fat only diet (plus it being saturated animal most likely makes it worse), will eventually kill you.

However, fruits and vegetables alone, you can manage to have a healthy balanced diet. It is full of vitamins and minerals for one. You wil get plenty of carbs and glucose for your brain, protien from beans, and fat from avacodos and seeds.

BAM!!

seeds aren't fruits or vegetables, and no, you can't have a healthy balanced diet on just fruits and veggies. you will be severely lacking in both protein and fat unless you use powders like hemp or other supplements.

Botanically, many nuts are fruits, so you certainly can get all the fat required. Vegetables for protein, that might be tough, but I haven't done any research yet.

EDIT: Still looking.

Sarauk2sf

Botanically, many nuts are fruits, so you certainly can get all the fat required. Vegetables for protein, that might be tough, but I haven't done any research yet.

EDIT: Still looking.

Joining in the 'nerding out'.

Taking just one of the EAAs for now, namely leucine as it is the most important one for protein synthesis. Taking the RDA minimum recommendation for arguments sake of 42mg/kg/day and assuming someone who is 160lb = 73kg, the daily leucine target would be 3,055mg = 3g.

Peanuts, which are technically a fruit from a botanical perspective, have a decent amount of leucine - 1.67g per 100g. They also have EFAs and fiber. The problem is, to get the RDA for leucine (which is lower than optimal), you would need to eat 183g = 1,042 calories.

Staying with the 183g of peanuts, and I have not run the exact numbers for all of them, but the only EAA that probably would not get enough of would be lysine. The RDA for lycine, for the same person, would be 2,764mg = 2.8g. Peanute have 0.901g per 100g so you would need 307g of peanuts which = 1,748 calories.

I think lentils are also botanically fruits, and they have even more leucine - 2.03g per 100g and have fewer calories - so you would need 150g = 531 calories...but I have nerded out enough already to actually calculate all the other EAAs for this.

I have no idea why I just calculated that btw!

tigersword

Just saw your question, here are my two cents of common sense:

Assuming my car needs 1 gal of gas to run 10 miles, will the car run the same amount of miles if I put 1 gal of water?

That is an incredibly flawed analogy. Gas and water are two different things. The original question was about two types of food. A proper analogy would be to ask if a car would get the same mileage using 87 octane gas or 93 octane gas.

Might wanna check on your common sense.

SideSteel

Botanically, many nuts are fruits, so you certainly can get all the fat required. Vegetables for protein, that might be tough, but I haven't done any research yet.

EDIT: Still looking.

Joining in the 'nerding out'.

Taking just one of the EAAs for now, namely leucine as it is the most important one for protein synthesis. Taking the RDA minimum recommendation for arguments sake of 42mg/kg/day and assuming someone who is 160lb = 73kg, the daily leucine target would be 3,055mg = 3g.

Peanuts, which are technically a fruit from a botanical perspective, have a decent amount of leucine - 1.67g per 100g. They also have EFAs and fiber. The problem is, to get the RDA for leucine (which is lower than optimal), you would need to eat 183g = 1,042 calories.

Staying with the 183g of peanuts, and I have not run the exact numbers for all of them, but the only EAA that probably would not get enough of would be lysine. The RDA for lycine, for the same person, would be 2,764mg = 2.8g. Peanute have 0.901g per 100g so you would need 307g of peanuts which = 1,748 calories.

I think lentils are also botanically fruits, and they have even more leucine - 2.03g per 100g and have fewer calories - so you would need 150g = 531 calories...but I have nerded out enough already to actually calculate all the other EAAs for this.

I have no idea why I just calculated that btw!

In the time you just spent on this ridiculous thread, I burned 480 calories lifting and walking around the neighborhood. And you sat there doing nerdy math on nerdy things that only nerds would nerd about.































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Charlottesometimes23

It's a really interesting question. Apart from the obvious issues with consuming only lard (micronutrient and amino acid deficiency, fatty deposits in arteries etc.), is a calorie a calorie a calorie? I think pretty much yes.

Fat is broken down in the body to glycerol and fatty acids. Glycerol can enter the glycolysis pathway and the fatty acids are broken down to Acetyl Co A and enter the Krebs cycle. Pyruvate (from glycerol) and/or Acetyl Co A (from the fatty acid) are substrates for some non-essential amino acids (to make protein), ketones and glucose (via gluconeogenesis). To some degree metabolism of the different macronutrients overlap and compensate for too much of one or the other, and can also go in reverse to make something that's missing. One of the big problems with the lard only diet, is that various micronutrients are required as co-enzymes (essential helpers) in many of the pathways.

From a purely biochemical perspective (not a health perspective), and provided that you don't completely cut out essential nutrients to inhibit any of these pathways, I do think that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.