Fat calories vs Calories?!


Question: Fat calories vs Calories?
what is the difference?

Answers:

Studies have shown that some people can gain fat stores even on a semi starvation diet of 1000 calories a day - if it's composition is high carb, low fat. So obviously, calories aren't the key to fat loss (or gain).

Fat won't make you fat (but a low fat, high carb diet can). Fat is essential to good health. (not including transfats) & supports a strong immune system & helps hormones to function properly. Fat tempers the devastating health effects of carbohydrates. Fat is needed to make the vitamins & minerals in your foods (like calcium & vit.D in milk or alpha and beta carotene and lycopene in vegs) bioavailable so they can be incorporated into the body structure. Most people do better with a higher level of fat than with less, even if the body is being fueled by carbs & not fat.

The body can not release body fat stores until the bloodstream is clear of insulin. Carbs greater than 9grams per hour trigger insulin. Insulin is the only fat storage hormone.

There is NO evidence to substantiate the calorie theory. It may sound logical, but the body is built for survival & does not follow logical mathematical equations.

Gary Taubes spent 7 years going over all the studies on nutrition, which is the basis of his recent book "Good calories, Bad calories"

He makes a case based on substantiated scientific studies that -

> Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating & not sedentary behaviour.

> Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter, any more than it causes a child to grow taller.

Excess protein will be converted to glucose (whether you are in glycolysis or ketosis) *unless* your fat ratio is greater than 80% of total calories.

It's been impossible to study high calorie low carb, since protein is fairly self regulating and low carb creates a natural appetite suppression. The highest study I've found is 2600 calories. In one discussion group, the calorie theory was under discussion & one lean fellow experimented on himself & added an extra 2000 calories a day to his normal maintenance level of 2500 calories for a total of 4500 calories a day - an extra 14,000 calories in a week - which according to the calorie theory should add 4# but he lost 1#

As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn't gain weight, no matter the calories because insulin, the fat storage hormone is not activated.

I am adamantly opposed to low calorie dieting because most people lose a good portion of lean tissue (including vital organs like the heart) along with fat stores. Low calories convert dietary protein to a very inefficient fuel, forcing the body to catabolize it's own lean tissues for nutrition. There is no nutrition in fat stores, only energy.

Low calories slow the metabolism to function on fewer calories. Most people get impatient and lower their calories and increase their exercise to a point where they lose so much lean tissue that when they return to what was maintenance level eating they are now accumulating more fat stores because their caloric needs have dropped due to the loss of this tissue and it becomes a vicious cycle of dieting and more loss (including vital organs like the heart) This stress cannot be healthy.



Contrary to popular belief, calories aren't just calories. Your body processes things so differently in fact that a 400 calorie double cheeseburger will be much harder for the body to process than say 400 calories of beans and whole grain rice, which your body will just pass right through absorbing far less of the calories.

In short, fat calories are more likely to be held on to when they're processed. However, if you create a caloric deficit, you'll lose weight no matter where calories come from.



the total amount of calories you see on the label is the amount of calories that come from protein carbs and fat. for one gram of protein you have 4 calories, the same for carbs. BUT for fat you have 9 calories for every one gram. IF you are eating something with more than half the calories being fat calories you shouldnt eat it becuase the fat stays in your body. DO NOT IGNORE FAT CALORIES they are the worst kind. but you dont add them to the calories already in the food you must watch out for both.



Calories are just plain calories and fat calories are calories from fat. Ignore fat calories when calorie counting. A calorie is a calorie, and your body doesn't discriminate.



theres those good calories and bad calories.
fat calories being the bad calories
the regular calories are just an energy source for your body and the fat calories turn into fat




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