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The math does not add up. 40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days. Moreover, if he
by dabadoo 10y ago
The math does not add up.
40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days.
Moreover, if he ate as much as the average American eats, how is it that the average American has not experienced what he has? The guy almost gained 1 pound a day.
- thomyorkie 10y agoHe ate 40 teaspoons which is 160 grams of sugar. Also, perhaps the fact that he went from very little sugar to 160 grams a day caused rapid weight gain. I know for instance that your body changes over time to burn fat more efficiently if you are on a lower carb diet, perhaps the reverse is true as well.
- dabadoo 10y agoWeight gain is impossible without the necessary amount of calories. It is the simple law of conservation of mass/energy. 160 calories * 21 days = 3360 calories. This is enough to gain about 1 pound of weight, not 19.
- oculusthrift 10y agoprobably spiked his blood sugar causing him to eat more food in general. pretty poor article missing a million confounding variables
- in_cahoots 10y ago1 teaspoon is 16 calories, so you're off by a factor of 4 here though you're still in the same ballpark.
- thomyorkie 10y agoIts 160 grams of sugar which equals 619 calories which leads to 12999 calories in 21 days. Still less than 4 pounds though. However, you're really oversimplifying weight gain. Hormones play an important role in how much fat is stored and how much your metabolism burns. And the type of food you eat can affect your hormones.
- darpa_escapee 10y agoHormones, food, stress, mood, sleep, exercise, medications etc all affect your metabolism and how fat is stored.
- dabadoo 10y agoYes my mistake. 13k calories is roughly 4 pounds. >Hormones play an important role in how much fat is stored and how much your metabolism burns. And the type of food you eat can affect your hormones. It doesn't matter if 100% of the calories he ate was turned into fat. >how much your metabolism burns. Eating sugar causes your metabolism to slow down by 4x? You'd die.
- thomyorkie 10y agoYou're talking about that 13k calories of sugar as if it exists in a vacuum. That extra sugar could have caused more of the other non-sugar food he was consuming to turn to fat.
- dabadoo 10y agoTurning to fat doesn't mean mass will come out of nothing
- thomyorkie 10y agoIts not coming from nothing. If a higher percentage of the total calories he consumes turns to fat instead of being used as energy, then he will have extra mass on his body.
- dualogy 10y agoA good time for you to prove that every single one out of trillions of living mammalian bodies satisfy your robotic maths to any degree of confidence!
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- chinathrow 10y agoWell, he also ate other stuff "around" those sugar calories, not?
- DesiLurker 10y agoI dont think thats the central message of the film at all. the problem with human digestive system is that it evolved for very different set of conditions & has very limited 'floating' capacity for carbs. so when you eat highly processed food with short chain carbs what you get is sudden overload in carrying capacity of blood stream. body responds by storing it away as fat. OTOH when you are short on energy body produces hunger signals before tapping into fat reserves so eat again & cycle repeats. the message IMO is about composition of what you eat (centered around sugar).
- ryanobjc 10y agoWhat else did he eat? Sugar will raise your insulin level, which directs more blood sugar to fat cells. So it's not just a case of calories in calories out.
- dabadoo 10y agoIt is a matter of calories in calories out. He didn't just increase his concentration of fat, he straight up gained 8.5 kilograms of mass.
- jonsen 10y agoThe main part of the kind of body mass you can gain is water.
- dualogy 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin > promoting the absorption of, especially, glucose from the blood into fat, liver and skeletal muscle cells > in the tissues that can carry out these reactions, glycogen and fat synthesis from glucose are stimulated > The breakdown of triglycerides by adipose tissue into free fatty acids and glycerol is also inhibited > Increased lipid synthesis – insulin forces fat cells to take in blood glucose, which is converted into triglycerides (aka fat) > Increased esterification of fatty acids – forces adipose tissue to make neutral fats (i.e., triglycerides) from fatty acids > Decreased lipolysis – forces reduction in conversion of fat cell lipid stores into blood fatty acids and glycerol Kcals in kcals out fails practically every overweight person over 30 I know. But they won't hear about biochemistry. Poor folks aren't even eating that much, but what they do eat sufficiently inhibits liberation of the many-months-worths of energy stores they carry around all day. Don't envy them, full of energy yet out of energy!
- dabadoo 10y agoKcals in/out is literally the conservation of mass. Increasing fat synthesis doesn't mean your body can magically make up mass.
- mping 10y agoWas under the impression he ate food with sugar, hidden sugar as he call it. Plus, he went from no sugar to 40g so it's not not comparable to the avg person
- DanBC 10y agoHe completely changed his diet from cooked from scratch to "foods perceived as healthy but which contain hidden sugar". He claims he controlled for fat intake. It's likely that taking on that much sugar all of a sudden would require him to increase his fluid intake, and so some of the weight may be water.
- aidenn0 10y agoThe more sugar I eat at one meal, the hungrier I am at the next meal. It's entirely possible that his caloric intake went up by a lot more than the 619kCal per day he got of sugar.
- shamaku 10y ago40 grams of sugar? 40 teaspoons is closer to 160+ grams.