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When I went to the Irish potato famine museum in Ireland they said the average person needed a basketful of potatoes per day. That doesn’t seem like it’s high
by bergenty 4y ago
When I went to the Irish potato famine museum in Ireland they said the average person needed a basketful of potatoes per day.
That doesn’t seem like it’s high in the satiety index.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI can find claims that people were eating 14 pounds a day. That seems implausible. They'd have been really fat on nearly 5000 Calories per day.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoIf you're building a house or something 12 hours a day, you're going to burn that much.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI don't buy that. We've studied cultures where everyone works really hard all day. Their metabolism adjusts pretty well and functions at a level not too different from the rest of us.
- sgtnoodle 4y agohttps://www.lhsfna.org/burning-calories-on-the-job/ https://www.lhsfna.org/burning-calories-on-the-job/ Burning 400 calories an hour for 12 hours would be about 5000 calories. Anecdotally, I know a retired guy who's been constructing a gymnasium sized $150K play tube structure for the past month, and he's lost like 25lb.
- bergenty 4y agoWhat is a play tube because it makes me think of those structures that kids play in at McDonalds and something like that couldn’t possibly cost $150K.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoYes, it's something like that. I imagine the cost is proportional to the size and complexity of the particular setup? The company quoted $20k just to install it, which is why my acquaintance is volunteering to do it.
- shigawire 4y agoAthletes or active teens could eat that much easily
- rootusrootus 4y agoVery specific athletes can burn that much for a while. And teens can do it for a bit during growth spurts. But regular people? Nah. That's been studied pretty well. If you work hard all day, your metabolism compensates. It's also why exercise has quickly diminishing returns.
- danielheath 4y agoSatiety index is per calorie. Needing a large volume per day indicates it’s low calorie per volume, which would support that claim.
- bergenty 4y agoThat seems… counter intuitive. I would say something has a high satiety index if something small can fill you up.
- BizarroLand 4y agoI think you may be confusing satiety with being "full". You can eat 500 calories of butter and not feel even slightly full, but 500 calories of raw potato would have you full to bursting.
- bergenty 4y agoBut satiety is defined as the state of being full. The satiety index should be based on volume not calories. Otherwise it’s not just unintuitive, it’s incorrect. You don’t have to consume a certain number of calories to be full. You just need a large enough volume. Competitive eaters eat a huge amount of lettuce to feel “full” but it has almost no calories.
- BizarroLand 4y agoSatiety is defined as "the feeling or state of being sated" Full != (Sated OR Satisfied)
- bergenty 4y agoSate is defined as “satisfy to the full”
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