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Human biology is complex. Reducing it to simple thermodynamics completely ignores factors like metabolism, psychology and microbiome. Eating nutrient deficient
by starchild3001 9y ago
Human biology is complex. Reducing it to simple thermodynamics completely ignores factors like metabolism, psychology and microbiome.
Eating nutrient deficient/extremely tasty sweets (or junk food) has very different effects than eating nutrient dense/bland red meat or vegetables with the same calories.
Reductionism is counterproductive in this case. You should re-read the article. It describes a number of ways where human metabolism responds to calories and/or body weight in unexpected ways (hence the biology is 'complex').
- Double_a_92 9y agoThe difference between junkfood and healthy food is the "calorie density". A big mac is 500kcal, but you are still hungry after eating one.
- jjeaff 9y agoAgain, an oversimplification. Different flavors, salt intake, even psychology can come into play in how your appetite is affected and how your body may react to what you just ate.
- beagle3 9y agoThat's not the whole story. Do this experiment: drink/eat fat, 38% sweet cream is probably the friendliest to the uninitiated, but butter, olive oil, coconut oil would also work. It doesn't get more dense than pure fat (and only about 2.5 as much as 38%fat sweet cream), and you will NOT be hungry afterwards.