Max Effective Calorie Limit

Is there a level of calorie intake where the body cannot digest anymore for
that particular day or whatever. For example, if someone was to eat 10,000
calories in one day, would you effectively put on 2 pounds in a day, or
would the body just pass it out after a certain level ?

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:06:03 GMT, "paul.smith" wrote:

Is there a level of calorie intake where the body cannot digest anymore for
that particular day or whatever. For example, if someone was to eat 10,000
calories in one day, would you effectively put on 2 pounds in a day, or
would the body just pass it out after a certain level ?

I don't have a scientific answer to this, but I would say that your
body would take up the calories - unless you were bulimic and brought
it all up again before it was digested.

janice
233/177/133

"paul.smith" wrote in message
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Is there a level of calorie intake where the body cannot digest anymore
for
that particular day or whatever. For example, if someone was to eat 10,000
calories in one day, would you effectively put on 2 pounds in a day, or
would the body just pass it out after a certain level ?

If there is a limit, it seems to be genetic - so, it's personnal. There was
a study conducted in US jails [E.A. Sims,1973], where several volunteers (of
normal weight) were fed a 10,000-15,000 calories diet during a six months
period. All of them survived, so it seems the body does fine. Though many
reported nausea after a couple of days, which seems to credit the idea that
our body in its normal state is self regulating (the nausea being the signal
that food intake should stop). The goal was to reach a weight gain of 20-25%
of their initial weight. Many of the prisonners took the whole six months to
manage to get that extra weight. Some actually didn't manage at all, and
only gained 15lbs max. But the prisonners with obesity in their famillies
had a slighly easier time gaining the weight. Also, merely *maintening* the
gained weight needed a high calorie diet (5,000-10,000), and most of the
prisonners had no problem at all losing all the extra weight.(except for 4
out the prisonners - 2 of which having obesity in their famillies). That
also explains why people who are naturally underweight have a real nightmare
with trying to *gain* weight - it's much much harder than losing weight.
It's a lot of work to grow fat, for most of us, it took years, not months...
So, either the equivalence between calories and pounds of fat is not as
direct and constant as we think, or our ability to deal with a huge intake
of calories is very variable from a person to another.