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Old January 28th, 2004, 07:40 PM
Mirek Fidler
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Default Uncovering the Atkins diet secret - for Moosh

Still don't get it. YOU are the one seeming to claim disappearing
calories...


No. That's your straw man. I never claimed that calories disappeared.
Your intellectual honesty appears to be equal to your mental capacity.
Both breathtaking examples of the microscopic world.

Calculate and post the quantity of energy available to the cells from
1000 calories of triglyceride in the blood. I have already done your
work for you in the case of glucose.


Well, uhm, energy available to the cells is one thing. But what Moosh
wants to say is that energy that is not used by cells cannot disappear.
Even if wasted, it has to go somewhere.

The most apparent forms are heat (which could probably be measured) or
energy can be bound to another chemicals and excerted (e.g. in form of
ketones).

But it cannot disappear.

Mirek

P.S.: I am doing LC, so I think I am NOT biased I still think there
might be some metabolic advantage, but even if it is not, pure calorie
in calorie out is enough for me to stay on LC. It is so simple - replace
starches and sugar by vegetables and 0cal sweetener and your calorie
intake drops by one third or even half - and you will not notice it in
form of hunger or taste - quite opposite...

Makes me think that human body simply is not build to live from
hi-glycemic food. There is only a little satiety difference between
eating a lb of bread or cauliflower, esp. if mixed with some fat or
protein.