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When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking - your body literally does

When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking - your body literally does not know. What you're speaking to wrt fat loss vs weight loss is a much more complicated subject than just eating the right foods and having a calorie deficit.

ravenstine 3y ago
There's no "caloric deficit." Your body stores and oxidizes fat because it needs to get the appropriate mass from somewhere. If the body has fat to oxidize, then there's no deficit of anything. > It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking - your body literally does not know. You're conflating a few things here. Fundamentally, you're saying that the body doesn't contain an internal calorie counter. In that sense, you are absolutely correct. The human body, and pretty much all organisms performing respiration, does not keep track of calories in any capacity or measure mass. The only thing the body can do is delegate different kinds of mass to the places in different cells where their presence would be of benefit to the survival of the system. That's really it, though it's a bit of an oversimplification. However, if we correct "kind of calories" to "kind of mass", and drop the whole idea of the body "knowing" something, then what you are saying is fundamentally untrue. It is not controversial in any way that the cells in the human body, and all creatures for that matter, treat macronutrients differently and prioritize them in ways that are not equivalent. Yes, it's more complicated, but food composition is way up there in terms of importance.
vlod 3y ago
>When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking Of course it matters. Here's an experiment. Drink only 12 cans of soda (~140 cals each) spread over the day (so 1680 cals total). Assuming a BMR of 2000 cals (standard male), you're at a deficit. Assuming you start drinking as soon as you get up and last one just before you got to sleep, will you lose weight? No.. because your insulin is constantly spiked throughout the day which inhibits fat burn. Now try it with broccoli (or even just fat).

ravenstine 3y ago

There's no "caloric deficit." Your body stores and oxidizes fat because it needs to get the appropriate mass from somewhere. If the body has fat to oxidize, then there's no deficit of anything. > It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking - your body literally does not know. You're conflating a few things here. Fundamentally, you're saying that the body doesn't contain an internal calorie counter. In that sense, you are absolutely correct. The human body, and pretty much all organisms performing respiration, does not keep track of calories in any capacity or measure mass. The only thing the body can do is delegate different kinds of mass to the places in different cells where their presence would be of benefit to the survival of the system. That's really it, though it's a bit of an oversimplification. However, if we correct "kind of calories" to "kind of mass", and drop the whole idea of the body "knowing" something, then what you are saying is fundamentally untrue. It is not controversial in any way that the cells in the human body, and all creatures for that matter, treat macronutrients differently and prioritize them in ways that are not equivalent. Yes, it's more complicated, but food composition is way up there in terms of importance.

vlod 3y ago

>When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking Of course it matters. Here's an experiment. Drink only 12 cans of soda (~140 cals each) spread over the day (so 1680 cals total). Assuming a BMR of 2000 cals (standard male), you're at a deficit. Assuming you start drinking as soon as you get up and last one just before you got to sleep, will you lose weight? No.. because your insulin is constantly spiked throughout the day which inhibits fat burn. Now try it with broccoli (or even just fat).