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Body can only consume X amount of calories from the food you eat every day (just like any other process/machine it has its upper limit), and the rest will be th
by obilgic 6y ago
Body can only consume X amount of calories from the food you eat every day (just like any other process/machine it has its upper limit), and the rest will be thrown out without being digested. That's why short bursts of high calorie intake won't result anything more than the X amount. However reaching that upper limit everyday will add up to weight gain.
- aidenn0 6y agoSource? I'm almost certain that's not true. The human body is fairly stingy about sending digestible calories out as waste.
- baal80spam 6y agoI was wondering about this myself for some time now. I haven't been able to find any research regarding the amount of food/energy/calories that human body is able to digest. For example: I eat 10 buns with butter. How much of this food will be digested by my body and how much will 'go through' and not be converted into energy? What's the ratio? Is there even a ratio or everything we eat we eventually digest?
- aidenn0 6y agoDietary fiber is known to be largely undigested, (the microbes in your intestine will feed off of them). Your body is really efficient at pulling nutrients from simple carbohydrates and fats. I forget what happens to excess protein though.