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    A Calorie is NOT a calorie

    Posts: 776 Member
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    Cutting edge experts say the "calories in, calories out", philosophy is oversimplified and inadequate. Quality of calories determnes the quantity your body burns or stores.

    Fiber: delays the absorbtion of calories. For example, when you eat a 160 calorie portion of almonds, you absorb 130 calories because some calories are delivered to your intestine, where your gut bacteria burn them for their own energy source.
    Protein: You use twice as much energy to metabolize protein as carbohydrate- due to thermic effect of food. Protein reduces hunger hormones more than carbs do.
    Carbs: starches (like potatoes) contain mainly glucose, which every cell in your body uses for energy. Fructose-- found in soda and candy and added to most processed foods--is metabolized in your liver as fat, which drives chronic diseases such as diabetes.

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      Are you telling me my gut bacteria eats some of my nuts? That *****
    • Posts: 346 Member
      I'm way too tired to dig up a popcorn gif.
    • Posts: 3,237 Member
      Can you tell us more about these cutting edge experts?
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
      :yawn:
    • Posts: 2,403 Member
      You're right, OP - a calorie is not a calorie.

      It's a unicorn.
    • Posts: 5,516 Member
      Why is fructose listed separate from carbs? It is a carb (just like sucrose, maltose, galactose, lactose, and glucose). They all break down to glucose for use by cells.

      Fructose is the sugar (carb) naturally found in fruit. So fruit is bad now, huh?
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    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      You're right, OP - a calorie is not a calorie.

      It's a unicorn.

      This is a far better response than mine. If only you'd had a unicorn jpeg.
    • Posts: 1,606 Member
      Wow, so interesting.

      Only if this were proven, dr. Attia would not be currently involved in a long term experiment TRYING TO PROVE IT.

      In a couple years, when the experiment is done, maybe we can get some updated caloric values on certain foods. Then we can take calorie counting, a method that works incredibly well, and make it even better.
    • Posts: 2,401 Member
      I got stuck at poopoopeapod. WTF is that?


      Edit: Oh god. What have I just done.

      it is a calorie with added fiber
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
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      This is a far better response than mine. If only you'd had a unicorn jpeg.

      Here you go...a unicorn...with the calories trailing behind....


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    • Posts: 100 Member
      I plan to eat a handful or two of Wonka's Bottle Caps in a few minutes, followed later by a few Everlasting Gobstoppers. Should I update my will first? Who wants my 12 bags of Tootsie Pops once I'm gone?
    • Posts: 1,487 Member
      Please enlighten us more.
    • Posts: 1,319 Member
      in before tacos
    • Posts: 2,403 Member
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      This is a far better response than mine. If only you'd had a unicorn jpeg.

      I'll go one better. A unicorn gif.

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      Agreed :smile:

      Quality of calories determnes the quantity your body burns or stores.
    • Posts: 28,072 Member
      lol at cutting edge.
    • Posts: 14,025 Member
      Obvious troll
    • Posts: 1,487 Member
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      I plan to eat a handful or two of Wonka's Bottle Caps in a few minutes, followed later by a few Everlasting Gobstoppers. Should I update my will first? Who wants my 12 bags of Tootsie Pops once I'm gone?
      *waves and jumps up and down*
      I'll take them. I have some calories left today and no sugar phobias. :laugh:
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      *waves and jumps up and down*
      I'll take them. I have some calories left today and no sugar phobias. :laugh:

      You got it! I have plenty for everyone,...and we might as well enjoy them before our livers give out. I got first dibs on blueberry!
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
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      I'll go one better. A unicorn gif.

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      A++++++
    • Posts: 776 Member
      Ummm Researchers at Harvard University and University of Pittsburgh. Of course I am sure you know much more than experts in their fields BTW Harvard is ranked the number one institution for obesity research by many "experts" However I know MFPers know a unicorn when they see one, cuz they are such fanciful thinkers stuck to "Baaahhhh "a calorie is a calorie"
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      nobody suggests that the Twinkie Diet is the one you should chose to adopt and yes when you have little to lose and are small having 1300 cals worth of junk isn't going to fill you up, but that doesn't mean that if I eat 2000 cals worth of veggies I am not going to gain weight. In fact it's almost easier to follow the Twinkie diet, because the packet will tell me exactly what's in it whilst my green beans don't really come with that.

      Please do post again when you have proof that eating large amounts of veggies won't make you gain weight, cause as a vegetarian I super interested in that ...
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    • Posts: 776 Member
      nobody suggests that the Twinkie Diet is the one you should chose to adopt and yes when you have little to lose and are small having 1300 cals worth of junk isn't going to fill you up, but that doesn't mean that if I eat 2000 cals worth of veggies I am not going to gain weight. In fact it's almost easier to follow the Twinkie diet, because the packet will tell me exactly what's in it whilst my green beans don't really come with that.

      Please do post again when you have proof that eating large amounts of veggies won't make you gain weight, cause as a vegetarian I super interested in that ...
      WTH? vegetables? Nobody said anything about veggies, you make no sense.
    • Posts: 28,072 Member
      Cutting edge experts say the "calories in, calories out", philosophy is oversimplified and inadequate. Quality of calories determnes the quantity your body burns or stores.

      Fiber: delays the absorbtion of calories. For example, when you eat a 160 calorie portion of almonds, you absorb 130 calories because some calories are delivered to your intestine, where your gut bacteria burn them for their own energy source

      How does delaying the absorption of food make the caloric value different?

      Protein: You use twice as much energy to metabolize protein as carbohydrate- due to thermic effect of food. Protein reduces hunger hormones more than carbs do.

      That is well established - not cutting edge. Also, TEF impacts TDEE, it does not impact the unit known as a calorie.
      Carbs: starches (like potatoes) contain mainly glucose, which every cell in your body uses for energy.

      Are you saying that no other carb converts into glucose?

      Fructose-- found in soda and candy and added to most processed foods--is metabolized in your liver as fat, which drives chronic diseases such as diabetes.

      On a caloric deficit?

      You do realize that fructose is found in fruit I hope.



      Edited to fix quotes
    • Posts: 1,606 Member
      Although, I have to say, I am amused by the gut flora aspect. Because if you can treat C. dificile with a pill made of human poop, maybe a poop pill can be created with the feces of lean people to help with weight loss!
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