What Really Causes Heart Disease?

[johnmatrix]

I know you were being sarcastic.. but actually, if you follow a low carb diet (like he prolly does, maybe not.. not sure) it helps to eat shit carbs to spike insulin, and prime your insulin sensitivity say once a week or two. "Priming" the pump so to speak. Some people believe in this, some don't. I do, but it doesn't necessarily have to be shit carbs, it's just that it also just so happens to be a great time to splurge and relieve some of that craving for crap foods that you get. Two birds with one stone.

Yeah it was sarcastic but I'm honestly quite a big follower of the guy. He is on a low carb diet with an intake of something like 2500 calories a day, 100grams of carbs, 100grams of fat and 200grams of protein. He does intersperse it with 1 or 2 carb-up days a week though, so pretty much exactly what you said.

 

[Andrey]

Of how much chemical energy the food you are eating provides. In this sense just like the Twinkie diet shows...the body behaves like a simple machine.

You are correct. But dont forget thqt our body has to digest the foodbto get the energy. If you were to drink 3k calories of gasoline do you think youd gain weight. Calorie is a calorie afterall.

As for gmo food, studies on rats have shown that 3rd generation cannot reproduce at all.

 

[Grindstone]

Michael Phelps is a good example of my point. Often eats 10000 calories per day and not the greatest diet. Read about his breakfasts.

Thermogenesis up in hurr.

Water is a much better conductor than air.

This thread needs moar bro science.

 

[lose lose win]

Thermic effect of food - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Two other terms commonly used to describe the thermic effect of food are dietary induced thermogenesis (DIT) and specific dynamic action (SDA). A commonly-used estimate of the thermic effect of food is about 10% of one's caloric intake, though the effect varies substantially for different food components. For example, dietary fat is very easy to process and has very little thermic effect, while protein is hard to process and has a much larger thermic effect.[2

Research has found that the thermic effect of food contributes to the fact that calories may not all be equal in terms of weight gain. Sadie Barr showed that the consumption of processed foods led to a 50% decrease in postprandial energy expenditure.[8]

Never seen this before, but yeah, glad to have a fancy term to use for future gay webmaster debates.

 

[lose lose win]

Yeah it was sarcastic but I'm honestly quite a big follower of the guy. He is on a low carb diet with an intake of something like 2500 calories a day, 100grams of carbs, 100grams of fat and 200grams of protein. He does intersperse it with 1 or 2 carb-up days a week though, so pretty much exactly what you said.

He have a website?

 

[rusvik]

A calorie is clearly not a calorie. Saying so is just wrong. Consider that the body is not a simple motor engine which produces output with added fuel and then stops until more fuel is added. There are thousands of co-dependent processes going on in the body.

For example, to quickly prove you wrong. The body uses energy to digest food, quite a lot of energy actually - around 10% of daily calorie consumption. Proteins require much more energy to digest than carbs. 25% of the calories from protein are used in digesting them. Carbs on the other hand are easily digested and are therefore used as 'quick' sources of energy.

So right there, the simple matter of digestion proves that eating the same amount of calories does not result in the same burn and therefore not the same weightloss.

Then factor in the thousands of processes which affedt the rate at which the body absorbs nutrients and how efficient it is at using energy in food (and how much, how fast).

A similar example is what is most beneficial: burning 1000 cals from cardio or weightlifting? Most people say they are the same, hence the skinny fat bastards on the bodybikes. But it's not the same since weightlifting has the effect of increased metabolism for up to 24 hours while cardio only has such an effect for a few hours after workout. And even more beneficial, your larger muscles require more energy even in resting state, which continues to add to your calorie consumption.

This is a perfect example that the kind of food you eat is probably very important in weight loss, since different foods makes the body burn more or less calories in a variety of ways.

A calorie just isn't a calorie. It's mindnumbing how anyone can think that what food you eat isn't important. The human body doesn't run on gasoline, it requires many different nutrients and will continue to crave them until met, which is why you feel hungry 30 minutes after a McDonalds meal.