Calories in versus calories out?? NOT SO FAST!!

[John Prophet]

very interesting video presentation

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...Lc-amxBA&hl=en


"The 'Classical Theory' that fat is deposited in the adipose tissue only when given in excess of the caloric requirement has been finally disproved"

Ernst Wertheimer, Physiological Reviews 1948

[diels]

fake

[lbs1]

He makes a very strong argument for keto/anabolic diets.

[dazraf26]

cliff notes? I watched about 30 min of it and loss interest

[Mourning Tide]

Gary Taubes, a very avid supporter of no-carb/low-carb eating (keep that in mind)

[heathershubby]

AM almost through reading "good calories / bad calories" very interesting.

[T3mpest]

calories in vs calories out will always be true. Law of thermodynamics after all. The trick is that every calorie isn't created equal. Depending on when the cals enter your body they will do very different things. Food taken post workout will not go to fat stores, most of the time. Secondly, some food speed up your metabolism making them better than they appear (sometimes even less than zero!), others tend to be stored as muscle instead of fat, while others still tend to go towards fat stores.

Eating pure sugar will spike insulin making you catabolic, it's very likely to make you fat as it gets the carbs digested easily and your body cant' do anything else with it.

Now a pure protien would be very different. If it's PWO, your body can use the cals for protien synthesis. Even without it being PWO, your body will still use some of the protein for muscle repair. Secondly 40% of the calories will be burned up just so your body can use it as a fuel source. A carb conversion is much easier.