Guest guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 Calories are a measurement of energy. Raw foodists (if they are 100% raw) do not get fat. They just get energy. If you eat some raw, and some cooked Your body will use raw fats for metabolic processes, and store the cooked fat. This is why avocadoes are fattening for cooked fooders.<br><br>Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2001 Report Share Posted June 21, 2001 Doug,<br><br>To expand on the point you make about calories, I'm no longer convinced about the usefulness of reported food " calories " as a predictor of a given food or food-product's effect on your weight.<br><br>A calorie is the amount of energy needed to heat one cubic centimeter or one gram of water by one degree celcius. Given that definition, I've never understood how they assigned calories to food. I'm sure there's a good explanation, even though I don't understand it.<br><br>It's told as gospel that weight is a simple function of " calories " taken in, versus calories " burned " through normal metabolism, exercise, etc. Yet, before I made substantial reductions in my intake of meat, I tried the Atkins diet (simply because I could not believe it worked) and ate nothing but meat, cheese and eggs for 10 days straight. Sad to say I didn't exercise either. I made no attempt to measure calories consumed, but I ate a lot (3 double cheesburgers without bread for lunch every day, etc) and I still lost 9 pounds in 10 days and it stayed off. <br><br>Since then I've tried following food combining principles and lost weight doing so without reducing total food or caloric intake. It is now my belief that Atkins probably works because it does not violate food combining rules (you're not mixing carbs with protein because the diet does not allow carbs).<br><br>I think there's a combination of factors that determine how food/food products will affect weight, including whether it's real food or not (ie denatured food products), whether the food has enzymes, how quickly the body process it (raw is fast, fude is slow), whether it is digested properly (raw diets normally follow food combining rules without trying; fude eaters normally combine protein/starch/etc at every meal (meat, potatoes, bread, milk - yuck!) and it does not digest optimally, etc.<br><br>The people I observe that are fat are always eating fude instead of food. Their shopping baskets are full of cardboard boxes instead of fresh produce. A number I've seen try not to eat a lot, but what they eat is processed wheat and sugar-derived garbage. Raw foodists don't get fat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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