To: Codeflier
Biochemist? Really? Time to head back to the books!
Your “simple” question is indeed simple, and simple in the extreme given the number and complexity of the factors involved.
Start off, please, by defining your terms: define “metabolism” in all it’s intricacies in sickness and health, then define “burned.” Then explain the complexities of the physiology whereby energy “consumed” from internal or external sources, is transformed into weight lost or gained in some supposed 1:1 correlation.
Then go back and define exactly what everybody means by “consumed,” which lies at the heart of this discussion.
Explain real-world phenomena that fly in the face of your argument like low-carb diets and “rabbit starvation,” or the “empty calories” in alcohol, or the weight loss sometimes seen in diabetics eating ravenously.
Biochemist. Hmpph.
62 posted on
05/09/2012 7:43:15 AM PDT by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: dagogo redux
or the weight loss sometimes seen in diabetics eating ravenously. Biochemist. Hmpph.
MD?
Bwahahaha
63 posted on
05/09/2012 8:04:44 AM PDT by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: Codeflier; dagogo redux
And if your two arguments about weight-loss are any example of the government trying to manage the NATION’S weight problem, we’ve just seen a glimpse into why this won’t work and why it is so dangerous to hand this much authority over to them. LOL...
Thank you both.
65 posted on
05/09/2012 11:43:53 AM PDT by
EBH
(The redistribution of another man's money, does not create wealth for the "greater good.")
To: dagogo redux
First let's define what I think we are arguing. I posit the simple formula that the human body gains weight when it's net caloric input exceeds net caloric output. Inversely, when net caloric input is lower than net caloric output there is a net loss in body weight.
You seem to disagree with this simple relationship. Now metabolic rate and other physiological variables can affect the output side of the equation, but they do not change the basic relationship between caloric input vs. output
To put it another way, you seem to be arguing that you believe it is possible for someone to consume less calories than they use and still gain weight. I argue that formula is biochemically impossible. Or are you one of those that believe the human body can use sunlight as a caloric food source?
66 posted on
05/09/2012 1:13:02 PM PDT by
Codeflier
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