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Thanks. I see lots of ads for the latest fad diet and it never fails to amaze me how many people throw their money at them. It's a lot of wasted money when the right way to loose or maintain weigh is simple: know your own personal biology at take advantage of it.

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My brother is skinny, always was. Me, I am very carb sensitive. I can really pile on the fat, easily. I guess it is my viking genes coming through.

Foothill wrote:
It's way more complicated than that. It also helps to know a bit of bioligical chemistry

If it's complicated and requires knowledge of biological chemistry then why is there no obesity in developing nations where people have no real education, can barely read or write never mind do chemistry, but do daily manual labour and don't have an overabundance of food? I mean the whole calories in vs out thing is a myth after all....

I was trying to make the point that not all calories are equal because the body handles them differently.

As for obesity in developing nations: take a look at world obesity rates[^]. Obesity exists the world over but the occurrence is much lower in conflict counties. There are several notable outliers near the bottom of the obesity ranking, such as India, Japan, and South Korea. A lot of the countries near the bottom share traits. Some are equatorial, providing year-round food sources, and others are in areas of extreme geography, which are places without stable food sources. It's also notable that a lot of the counties at the bottom also are near the bottom of the GDP per capita ranking. Meaning that their populations have less money to by excess food unlike their counterparts in richer countries.

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Foothill wrote:
I was trying to make the point that not all calories are equal because the body handles them differently.

A calorie is the amount of energy needed to heat a gram of water but 1C, or about 4.2 joules of energy if we're talking SI units. Saying the body handles calories differently is like saying water heated to 100C scolds your skin differently depending on if it was heated by a microwave or a kettle.

So let's say I do no exercise and eat 5,000 calories of burgers a day, will I gain more weight than if I drank 5,000 calories of booze instead? Where does the 5,000 calories have to come from in order for me to not gain weight? Or will I gain weight regardless because the "calories in vs calories out" theory is not a myth after all?

Well, since you want to be specific, yes, a calorie is indeed the amount of energy required to heat water. When it comes to nutrition, little distinction is made to differentiate which molecules will be hydrolyzed to create that energy. Do you dispute that? Additionally, the way our bodies handle the intake of those chemicals also varies dependent on the molecule. Do you dispute that?

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We're not talking about nutrition though, we're talking about calories\energy. I notice you didn't answer any of the questions I asked though, predictably preferring staw-man arguments to backing up the actual claims you actually made.

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Okay, lets put this in another way. To the question you asked:

F-ES Sitecore wrote:
So let's say I do no exercise and eat 5,000 calories of burgers a day, will I gain more weight than if I drank 5,000 calories of booze instead? Where does the 5,000 calories have to come from in order for me to not gain weight? Or will I gain weight regardless because the "calories in vs calories out" theory is not a myth after all?

Heck yes you/re going to gain weight if you consume 5000 calories without burning it off.

However....

The point I was originally trying to make is that one needs to think about how they consume those calories as they are absorbed at different rates. To many people a calorie is a calorie no matter how they are eaten and that is a mistake. If you eat your calories, they have to be digested which slows their rate absorption giving your body time to process them. Calories delivered by fluid are not digested and absorbed very quickly in comparison. This, in turn, causes the body to start storing those calories into fat to clear the bloodstream of all the extra sugars. The effect that you feel is that quick rush of energy followed by a crash. In reality you get hungry and tired even though your body just got done storing a bunch of excess sugar as fat.

F-ES Sitecore wrote:
We're not talking about nutrition though, we're talking about calories\energy. I notice you didn't answer any of the questions I asked though, predictably preferring staw-man arguments to backing up the actual claims you actually made.

You asked questions that, scientifically speaking, only have one answer. This is seen as confrontational and argumentative. If you want to get into an argument over minutia, there are plenty of others around here willing to give you the time.

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Foothill wrote:
Heck yes you/re going to gain weight if you consume 5000 calories without burning it off.

So calories in vs calories out isn't a myth as you originally claimed?

Foothill wrote:
The point I was originally trying to make is that one needs to think about how they consume those calories as they are absorbed at different rates.

But ultimately they're still absorbed, and if there is a surplus they will end up as fat regardless of how quick they were absorbed or what their source was.

Foothill wrote:
ou asked questions that, scientifically speaking, only have one answer

Yes, the right answer. I'm just trying to get you to see it.

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That's because the eclipse isn't actually happening, it's just a conspiracy to fool people.

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That's because the eclipse isn't actually happening, it's just a conspiracy to fool people.

I didn't see the eclipse which is evidence to support your statement.

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