Comment on Nutritional Hexes
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours agoWhat do you think about keto?
Basically it’s “ditch all sugar”, and the idea is that when you eat sugar, as it’s toxic, the body tries to use up the energy from sugar, storing the rest for later. And vice versa, if you have no fastburning sugar, the bidy have to start to rely on breaking down that stored fat.
Of course, you cannot overcome physics, but it’s not like we don’t store everything we eat either (the body is fantastic but not like 100% efficient).
Some say you just eat less, and it’s true that it’s harder to cook without potatoes, rice, pasta… And sugar makes you want to eat more.
It’s fascinating because we don’t know more than around 10-15% of how metabolism works.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
With every diet, named or not, the weight loss aspect always comes from “calories in vs calories out”.
Some of them, like keto, change the way the body accesses the calories in food, but the math still holds. If your body can’t access the calories in what you eat, they literally become “calories out” when you go to the bathroom later.
Other diets help with mentally being able to track calories better, or to just help you deal with how hard it is to eat fewer calories.
But no matter what, conservation of mass and energy always applies.
xep@discuss.online 5 hours ago
Mass is not conserved.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I didn’t say just mad was connected. I said that mass and energy, when taken together, are conserved. Mass is just another form of energy.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
You forgot that we don’t use 100% of the energy intake, like at all. That invalidates your assumptions IMO.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Huh? No I didn’t, it’s all accounted for.
Unused energy is stored, or passed out as waste (literally calories out).
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
So to follow a diet you should calculate not just caloric intake but also caloric euh, well, disposal 😅?