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That's based upon normal metabolism and if you calorie reduce your metabolisim will also slow down, you also need vitamins to help the body work and some will b
by Zenst 7y ago
That's based upon normal metabolism and if you calorie reduce your metabolisim will also slow down, you also need vitamins to help the body work and some will be need to break down fat into energy.
Vitamins and minerals are not something you can reduce without effect/impact. So do factor that into any calorie reduction.
This and body fat only goes so far and as a metric is often flawed in measurement as any rugby or certain sports physics can attest. This is large muscle mass often mess's up those scale calculations and with that, many a fit muscular person will fall into the obese box as muscle weighs more than fat.
Also it's not just fat that gets broken down into energy, muscle is affected as well.
As everything it is a fine balance.
Given all that, eating normal alternate days is a safer approach for many.
- dean177 7y ago> muscle weighs more than fat On average, the density of fat is 0.9 g/mL, while the density of muscle is 1.1 g/mL. It’s just not that much
- Zenst 7y agoSure on average but whilst that is often bounded about, most people are not average. Bit like having 10 people with shoe sizes of 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 so you go, the average size is 8.5 and proceed to make 10 pairs of 8.5 size shoes. Gets down to knowing yourself and how much that differentiates from the average and adjusting accordingly. Alas many look at average and work with that, so somebody small who needs may think the average alcohol limit is X, so I can drink X and still be legal to drive and yet as they are smaller, find their blood volume less and the alcohol to blood level is higher than that average and tada, drunk drives without realising as they thought they had stayed under the average limit. Averages used as a literal are dangerous, they need to be treated as a guideline by people when applying them to themselves, can't stipulate that enough. [EDIT a grammar I spotted]
- dean177 7y agoThe variance for muscle density is considerably smaller than the variance in shoe size. https://itis.swiss/virtual-population/tissue-properties/database/density/ https://itis.swiss/virtual-population/tissue-properties/data... In this case the average alone is representative of the population without any additional qualifications. Please don’t drink and drive.
- Zenst 7y agoBe nice to be able to click thru and see the scale of those studies as many have very few studies and without knowing the size and scale of data, I'm still open minded and SMD variations from what I have read, vary upon a greater scale. Though handy site and will only become more handy with more data sets, but being able to click-thru to and see those studies would go a long way as not all studies are equal in quality and credibility in much the same way that people would believe data comming from `John Hopkins University` about viral data over say data comming out of `Really Greatest University in the entire World`. I'd add, don't drink and operate any form of transport, lost cousin decades ago to a drunk cyclist. Me, I don't drive, walk and public transport, so these days, walk if needs demand. Though probably handful of times I've even drunk even close to any limit. But very mindful that not everybody is as thoughtful of others, though easier to identify them as they are the ones with 4x4's full of toilet roll :).
- dean177 7y agoYou can satisfy your scepticism, the list of all publications used to generate the database (with complete reference) is included in the full download.