CNN Health Story Promotes Pizza, Ice Cream, Burgers as "Great for Your Waist"

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Saturnal wrote:

Just think about what goes into calculating your BMR...basically it depends on your lean mass. The more lean mass you have, the higher your BMR is. Lean mass includes water, bone, and muscle. If you eat 3000 calories in pure sugar per day for a month, you'd definitely lose some muscle mass. You wouldn't be getting any protein, and your body would start to break down your muscles to get it. So your BMR would drop...therefore, you'd have to start eating less calories per day in order to keep up with your decreasing BMR if you wanted to maintain your weight.

That's an extreme case, but it definitely proves the point that what you eat affects your BMR. It's not just how many calories you take in.

Ok if the equation is taken outside of reality I suppose so sure.

However your body is changing not the calorie, so a unit of energy (calorie) still remains a calorie in the literal sense.

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RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Ok if the equation is taken outside of reality I suppose so sure.

However your body is changing not the calorie, so a unit of energy (calorie) still remains a calorie in the literal sense.

Yea I agree, a calorie is a calorie in the literal sense. But your body reacts differently to those calories depending on where they come from. So realistically, it definitely matters WHAT you're eating, not just how much you're eating.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Saturnal wrote:

Yea I agree, a calorie is a calorie in the literal sense. But your body reacts differently to those calories depending on where they come from. So realistically, it definitely matters WHAT you're eating, not just how much you're eating.

I'm taking for granted people are already exercising and eating proper food ratios.