Can you gain more than the weight of the food you eat?!
Question: Can you gain more than the weight of the food you eat!?
I am having a vigorous debate with some friends!. I remember reading a long time ago that you can't gain more than the weight of the item you eat!. Even if you eat a pound of lard, you won't gain more than a pound after it' digested / stuck to your body as fat!. None of my friends agree with that!. I am not dealing with your motabilism vs!. mine vs someone else!. I am looking for the maximum weight gain!. And not something like a pound of salt causing your body to retain water, etc!. I am saying if you eat x pounds of something, the absolute most you will gain - without peeing / eating anything else (or if you do, discounting that weight) - would be that X pounds!. Not any more!.
But I can't find that confirmed or denied anywhere!. Seems conservation of matter / mass would be the answer, but it is not discussed in health / medical terms that I can see!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
But I can't find that confirmed or denied anywhere!. Seems conservation of matter / mass would be the answer, but it is not discussed in health / medical terms that I can see!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Argh!. The previous answer is completely wrong!. A calorie does not weigh anything!. It is not a thing that sits around in food and then sits in your body!. A calorie is a unit of measurement - specifically, it is the amount of energy necessary to raise the temperature of a gram of water by 1 degree Celsius!. (The food calorie is actually a kilocalorie, so it's enough to raise a kilogram of water by 1 degree!. I mention this not because it's important, but because I'm a showoff)
In food terms, calories measure the amount of energy that the food provides your body, which uses energy to do stuff like moving and not dying!. It extracts this energy from food via chemical processes which we generally call "digestion," then eliminates waste products through sweat, urine, feces, etc!.
However, because eating and metabolism are not terribly precise, in general the amount we eat in a day and the amount of energy our body actually uses in a day is not equivalent!.
Accordingly, the body has ways of storing energy for later use - transforming it into fat being one of the big ones!. Thus if we eat more in a day than we use (including via simply eliminating), we add fat!. And if we eat less in a day than we use, we "burn" fat!. (Or, more accurately, we convert it into several other forms, some of which are useful sources of energy)
But, and this is crucial, the calorie is NOT an independent substance in food - it's just a measurement of what the body can do with the chemicals in the food!. Everything that happens with the food is just chemical reactions with the matter!.
Accordingly, the law of conservation of matter does apply here - you cannot store more matter in your body than was actually in the food!. But it is relevant what food you're actually eating - food that is high in fiber and water contains more weight that is going to be quickly excreted!. And so three pounds of corn and water is going to have quite a lot that goes away quickly, whereas three pounds of fudge is going to have quite a lot that can be converted into fat cells!.
But in no case will you gain more weight from a given piece of food than the food weighs!. That's just simple physics, and anybody who tells you otherwise doesn't understand basic science!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
In food terms, calories measure the amount of energy that the food provides your body, which uses energy to do stuff like moving and not dying!. It extracts this energy from food via chemical processes which we generally call "digestion," then eliminates waste products through sweat, urine, feces, etc!.
However, because eating and metabolism are not terribly precise, in general the amount we eat in a day and the amount of energy our body actually uses in a day is not equivalent!.
Accordingly, the body has ways of storing energy for later use - transforming it into fat being one of the big ones!. Thus if we eat more in a day than we use (including via simply eliminating), we add fat!. And if we eat less in a day than we use, we "burn" fat!. (Or, more accurately, we convert it into several other forms, some of which are useful sources of energy)
But, and this is crucial, the calorie is NOT an independent substance in food - it's just a measurement of what the body can do with the chemicals in the food!. Everything that happens with the food is just chemical reactions with the matter!.
Accordingly, the law of conservation of matter does apply here - you cannot store more matter in your body than was actually in the food!. But it is relevant what food you're actually eating - food that is high in fiber and water contains more weight that is going to be quickly excreted!. And so three pounds of corn and water is going to have quite a lot that goes away quickly, whereas three pounds of fudge is going to have quite a lot that can be converted into fat cells!.
But in no case will you gain more weight from a given piece of food than the food weighs!. That's just simple physics, and anybody who tells you otherwise doesn't understand basic science!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Yes, it's all about calories!. There are some sweets that can have as many as 5,000 calories a serving!. A pound of weight is 3500 calories!.Www@Answer-Health@Com