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>"Healthy because it isn't very fattening" Every single food item can be "fattening", so categorizing them as such is inaccurate. You can eat cookies and lose
by xeckr 2y ago
>"Healthy because it isn't very fattening"
Every single food item can be "fattening", so categorizing them as such is inaccurate. You can eat cookies and lose fat if you're in a net caloric deficit, and you can gain fat from celery if it puts you in a surplus.
- AstralStorm 2y agoProbably not from celery unless it's heavily processed already, at which point you should call it a celery soup, cream of celery or something. Otherwise the thing takes more energy to process than it provides.
- xeckr 2y agoI'm talking about literal, unprocessed celery sticks. I understand that the notion that the digestion of celery burns more energy than it provides is a myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food
- silverquiet 2y agoIf celery was all you ate, I doubt it would be possible to gain weight. It's so calorie-poor that it's hard to imagine being able to eat enough to surpass your basal metabolic needs.
- xeckr 2y agoI agree. My argument is that if your calories from food equal your energy expenditure over a given time period, and then you eat a single celery stalk, then the energy from the celery will "fatten" you (and/or contribute to muscle protein synthesis if you exercise). Conversely, if you ate nothing but cookies, but the total energy of those cookies was below what your body expended, then your body will necessarily make up for it by dipping into your fat reserves. Hence why labelling foods as "fattening" or "not fattening" is inaccurate.