New frontiers in the “CICO is factually incorrect” crusade: I just read that, while all kinds of fiber burn in a calorimeter, some are partially digestible by non-ruminants and some aren’t. So it’s not just that fiber is more filling per calorie—it’s that, when you buy processed high-fiber foods, you don’t know how many human-digestible calories you’re actually getting, because you don’t know how hard they’re going to correct the possibly-quite-deceptively-high values from the calorimeter.
Not sure this is a new frontier, exactly—it was part of high-school biology classes decades ago. Still, very worth reminding people and bringing up when someone over-focuses on the bailey of “legible, calculated CICO” as opposed to the motte of “absorbed and actual CICO”.
I mean “mass and energy are conserved”—there’s no way to gain weight except if losses are smaller than gains. This is a basic truth, and an unassailable motte about how physics works. It’s completely irrelevant to the bailey of weight loss and calculating calories.
New frontiers in the “CICO is factually incorrect” crusade: I just read that, while all kinds of fiber burn in a calorimeter, some are partially digestible by non-ruminants and some aren’t. So it’s not just that fiber is more filling per calorie—it’s that, when you buy processed high-fiber foods, you don’t know how many human-digestible calories you’re actually getting, because you don’t know how hard they’re going to correct the possibly-quite-deceptively-high values from the calorimeter.
Not sure this is a new frontier, exactly—it was part of high-school biology classes decades ago. Still, very worth reminding people and bringing up when someone over-focuses on the bailey of “legible, calculated CICO” as opposed to the motte of “absorbed and actual CICO”.
What do you mean by “absorbed and actual CICO”?
I mean “mass and energy are conserved”—there’s no way to gain weight except if losses are smaller than gains. This is a basic truth, and an unassailable motte about how physics works. It’s completely irrelevant to the bailey of weight loss and calculating calories.