Re: Oats or Ice-cream?

MMu said:

The calories labeled on food are energy contents and do not take
digestibility factors into account..
this means that a diet high in simple sugars that has 100kcal and a diet
with complex carbs that has 100kcal will not actually deliver the exact same
ammount of energy because the first does not need to be digested.
I guess the difference however will be rather marginal.

I would think the difference between these would be more than
'marginal' because those 'digestibility factors' play a big part in how
your body uses the two foods comparitively. Even tho the are close in
calories, the simple sugar item would be more likely to increase an
insulin spike response which in turn it is more likely to be shoved
into a fatcell for stored energy at some later date that never comes.
Whereas a slow digesting complex carb like oats, has a slower insulin
response and is more likely to be used for energy needed to complete
tasks at hand than to be stored. So even tho certain foods have the
same amount of calories as another, its those digestive factors that
determine how the body uses or stores them as bodyfat.

joanne

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MMu said:

The calories labeled on food are energy contents and do not take
digestibility factors into account..
this means that a diet high in simple sugars that has 100kcal and a diet
with complex carbs that has 100kcal will not actually deliver the exact
same
ammount of energy because the first does not need to be digested.
I guess the difference however will be rather marginal.

I would think the difference between these would be more than
'marginal' because those 'digestibility factors' play a big part in how
your body uses the two foods comparitively. Even tho the are close in
calories, the simple sugar item would be more likely to increase an
insulin spike response which in turn it is more likely to be shoved
into a fatcell for stored energy at some later date that never comes.
Whereas a slow digesting complex carb like oats, has a slower insulin
response and is more likely to be used for energy needed to complete
tasks at hand than to be stored. So even tho certain foods have the
same amount of calories as another, its those digestive factors that
determine how the body uses or stores them as bodyfat.

Generally no objection there (however: insulin repsonse from one isolated
food item does not say much about the insulin response when that item is
combined in a diet with others);
I was talking about "calories in food are not calories in the body" though.

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joanne