Calorie Out - Da Bomb! And out it goes ....

EvgeniZyntx
EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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So you think the whole equation thing doesn't work?
You already have an HRM, fitbit and what to get the latest gadget?
You are obsessive about your numbers and really want to know how many calories you leave behind with each bathroom trip?

Get a bomb calorimeter!

You can even use it measure the calories in food!

You can get one form IKA and they even have a lease to own option: http://www.ika.com/-Lab-Eq/Calorimeters-Oxygen-Bomb-calorimeter-cph-330/

Now, in order to measure the calories you poop. Remember that you need to prepare your stool slurries correctly. Here is the improved method for fecal slurry preparation: http://www.clinchem.org/content/16/3/253.full.pdf

Or, you can consider that someone else has done the study and that, generally speaking, the calories adsorbed from food are a little off: http://suppversity.blogspot.de/2013/05/a-bomb-calorimeter-you-are-not-and.html

Seriously, look at that last link - it has some intersting info on macro absorption rates.

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Replies

  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    NO
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    women suck at using their food...
  • _TastySnoBalls_
    _TastySnoBalls_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    :laugh:
  • _chiaroscuro
    _chiaroscuro Posts: 1,340 Member
    Fecal Slurry--best college town band name EVAR!
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    I love my job. I love my job. I love my job.

    I can't believe that's a thing!
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    NO

    With the right equipment you can also measure the calories released by gases.

    Ever wanted to know the energy release by how much methane a cow let go? Now you can.
  • Karentrobe
    Karentrobe Posts: 33 Member
    ewwww i dont want to know lol
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    NO

    With the right equipment you can also measure the calories released by gases.

    Ever wanted to know the energy release by how much methane a cow let go? Now you can.

    It's not like methane is as important as a gas as CO2 or something...Naw...
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    NO
    You're really on the ball with that NO stick today!
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Why are the men better in everything?? :angry:
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    NO
    You're really on the ball with that NO stick today!
    :angry:
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    NO

    With the right equipment you can also measure the calories released by gases.

    Ever wanted to know the energy release by how much methane a cow let go? Now you can.
    Thank you sir, this has been weighing heavily on my mind for years. I was out in the pasture chasing cows around with a styrofoam cup and a lighter and getting nowhere. Maybe I can finally make some progress.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    In...

    ...for...wait, what???




    Out out out!
  • jenn2375
    jenn2375 Posts: 101 Member
    We were just talking about weighing poo the other day......this will come in handy ;-)
  • lacurandera1
    lacurandera1 Posts: 8,083 Member
    Why are the men better in everything?? :angry:

    The men are most certainly NOT better in that dress you're wearing. :pants: :drools: :faints:
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    Why are the men better in everything?? :angry:

    pffft - it doesn't mean that men are better, it just means that they are more full of poop
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    You obviously haven't read my thread yet. A doctor came and talked to us today and......Calories don't matter.. BOOM!!!!!


    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1190193-guest-speaker-today-at-my-work-what-i-learned
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    giphy.gif \m/
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    I think I will stick the to the inaccurate and complicated way.... with a dog, two cats, and a toddler I handle way too much poop as it is.
  • sausens
    sausens Posts: 39 Member
    :D
    What did I just read...
  • Mav3rick54
    Mav3rick54 Posts: 180 Member
    Reading threads while eating lunch.....got as far as something about a slurry.....quickly leaving....me and my appitite. :grumble:

    Oh well, on to other fun stuff. :laugh:
  • tayloryay
    tayloryay Posts: 378 Member
    Mmm, slurry. Who wants to hit up 7/11 for some Slurpees?
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Why are the men better in everything?? :angry:

    It's just me. Not the other plonk ears.
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    Too much stuff. Did not read.
  • arrseegee
    arrseegee Posts: 575 Member
    Ewwww! I used to collect pee samples and analyse them for micronutrients but that is so much worse.

    Although it does remind me of a nutritionist I know who collected womens' menstrual blood for a study looking at iron metabolism... I was never brave enough to ask how she achieved it
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    Ahhh. I've wanted a bomb calorimeter since I used one in chemistry back in school. (We were just measuring the calories in foods, not calculating intake. I'm not sure we could've got away with faecal matter in class!!!!) Mind you, they're not accurate either!
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Ahhh. I've wanted a bomb calorimeter since I used one in chemistry back in school. (We were just measuring the calories in foods, not calculating intake. I'm not sure we could've got away with faecal matter in class!!!!) Mind you, they're not accurate either!

    The new lab calorimeters are a lot more accurate than the usual chemistry class ones.

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