Bill wrote:
:: Roger Zoul wrote:
::: Bill wrote:
::::: nash wrote:
:::::: "Roger Zoul" <
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::::::: Okay, but that's true of protein and carbs too.
:::::: Okay but just fat, or protein or carbs will not work with
:::::: exercise anyway unless you eat your vegetables too.
::::::
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::::: 2 cents worth coming.
::::: Dr. Dean Odell said that a calorie is a calorie no matter where it
::::: comes from. You can eat zero fat for your entire life but if you
::::: eat too many calories you will get fat and have clogged arteries.
::::: It's simple, calories down, exercise up, stay healthy.
::::: Too bad so many people think exercise is a bad word.
::::: Bill Baka
:::
::: A calorie is not just a calorie in terms of what the body can use
::: it for.
:::
:::
:: Yes, and no. A calorie is how much energy food contains.
Did you read what I wrote? A calorie is not just a calorie in terms of what
the body can use it for.
1 calorie of carb,
1 calorie of protein,
1 calorie of fat,
while all contributing to total calories, and while all causing problems
when eaten in excess, still have different uses in the body.
Carbs provide quick fuel, and thus are helpful when you need to really push
hard. Of course, you can get nutrients from carbs if you pick them right.
Fat provides a longer term fuel, the kind of energy that will sustain long,
but easy activity. Again, you can get useful nutrients from fat foods (EFA)
if you pick them right. Protein provides the building blocks that help the
body rebuild itself and protein foods contain valuable nutrients too. So a
calorie is not just a calorie in terms of what the body will do with it.
The qualifer is there for a reason, Bill.
Fat is
:: higher density so eating a plate full of McJunk is going to have ten
:: times the calories of a plate of salad.
Higher density means it weighs more (same volume) which should mean you
don't need to eat as much to get sated. Thus, it should not matter whether
you eat a meal with a lot of fat or not as long as you don't overstuff your
piehole. Eating fat isn't the problem, eating too much is.
Either way, the excess gets
:: turned into fat. I'm thinking that a healthy rider could take as the
:: only food source, a bottle of vegetable oil and drink that for pure
:: calories along with water, or a sports drink, and never be worse off
:: for doing it.
I would never do that. Your body can only store about 2000 kcals of
glycogen (stored glucose) and vegetable oil won't replenish any of that
since it contains no carbs. hence, one the body's store of glycogen is
depleted, the rider bonks. This happens sooner the harder you ride. So, the
more hills you have, the faster you go up them, the more you deplete
glycogen. The soon you feel like **** and can't get home. Calories from
Veggie oil won't help much here.
:: I think this subject will get a LOT more attention now that obesity
:: in children has made national news again. The statement that this
:: generation of kids might not outlive their parents is probably true.
:: Computers, video games, 500 channels of junk on TV, scooter boards
:: with motors, etc. High tech may mean we can make larger studies but
:: looking at the kids, there is way too much McDonalds going into
:: their stomaches. My stepdaughter is guilty of this in a big way, by
:: being too lazy to cook a good meal and giving the kids McDonalds,
:: Taco Bell, pizza, Burger King, or whatever, but never anything
:: healthy. Food and computers may be the plague that brings us down.
Well, I wouldn't blame just the fast food joints. You can buy plenty of
junk food in the local supermarket. In fact, most of the stuff sold there
is ****. Parents are buying that too, so kids get junk at home as well.
:: BTW, I like the extra water, non-fat cottage cheese. It tastes as
:: good as the 4% normal stuff.
:: Try to eat non-fat, non-junk food and if you do eat some junk ride 20
:: miles for each item as penance (reward?).
Well, I think it's ridiculous to by food that has the fat removed. Such
nonsense. Useless processing. Food should be kept as natural as possible,
IMO. And yes, to a 20 mile ride is a good way to work off the junk food.
Or, a 20-mile is is a good way to earn the right ot eat a piece of chocolate
cake.
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