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It is totally strange that anybody can think cal. is a cal. We proved otherwise so many times. People can eat the same amount of cals that are diffrently proce
by majkinetor 10y ago
It is totally strange that anybody can think cal. is a cal. We proved otherwise so many times.
People can eat the same amount of cals that are diffrently processed for various reasons:
- Insulin resistence
- Specific cancers
- Thyroid disfunction
- Level of amylaze expression (how good we absorb complex carbs)
- Microbiota status
- Even viruses (https://www.wired.com/2016/12/mysterious-virus-cause-obesity/ https://www.wired.com/2016/12/mysterious-virus-cause-obesity...)
In all casses people/animals did eat the same amount of food and got different amounts of fat.
Since anybody is in a differerent biochemical spot here the default should actually be that cal. is NOT a cal, depending on your (meta/epi)genetics.
Any proffessional claiming otherwise should find another job IMO. I use this claim as a marker for incompetence.
- ThrustVectoring 10y ago"A calorie is a calorie" is wrong, sure, but so is Newtonian physics. It leads to a lot of better-than-random-guessing predictions about what you should do in order to achieve certain goals. Want to gain weight? A gallon of milk is roughly 2k calories, so if you add that to your daily diet you ought to put on weight. Want to lose weight? You should probably "eat less", and calories are a good approximation of how much "less" eating less is.
- majkinetor 10y agoExcept it doesn't work that way. Nobody eats when not hungry. Obesity is a disease or disfunction. Imagine saying to someone that has bad vision to focus on the object.