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Why is this true? Calories measure energy, not mass. If I eat high calorie food, why does that cause me to retain more of the mass of that food in my body, com
by bloat 10y ago
Why is this true? Calories measure energy, not mass.
If I eat high calorie food, why does that cause me to retain more of the mass of that food in my body, compared to the same quantity of low calorie food?
This is a genuine question which I've never found a good answer for.
It would make much more sense to me if you said "Eat fewer kg of food than you excrete, and loose weight".
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- rory 10y agoYour body stores excess energy as fat, or uses it to build muscle. The amount of food mass in your body at any given time is assumed to be constant in the long term, so when we talk about a person's weight changing we are generally referring to a change in their fat or muscle mass. 1kg of ice cream has a much greater potential to change your long-term mass than 1kg of broccoli because your body has the ability to extract more energy from it, and thus build more fat or muscle.