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Weight 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
by dabadoo 10y ago
Weight 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).