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If we're being pedantic, you'd need to eat 500 extra calories over your what your body burns daily. But over a 6 year period, you would definitely accumulate 3
by lee 3y ago
If we're being pedantic, you'd need to eat 500 extra calories over your what your body burns daily.
But over a 6 year period, you would definitely accumulate 300 pounds of extra weight this way.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoSo the assumption here is that the pipeline for energy storage (including the human digestive system, insulin machinery and adipose tissue) converts calories to fat mass at a constant rate of efficiency, regardless of whether you're currently underweight, or at 350% of healthy bodyweight. Is there any human-built energy storage system that exhibits this type of performance? Do we really think that the human body exhibits it?