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Old Sun, Jan-01-17, 16:52
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The "calories in/calories out" mantra assumes any calorie from any source which goes in can come out just as easily with enough exercise - that's the gross scientific error.

That premise has problems -

It doesn't take into account that an overactive pancreas can produce excessive insulin, forcing even inadequate sugar/starch calories into fat cells before you can possibly use them via exercise.

It also doesn't take into account that it's extremely difficult to access the calories stored in fat cells while your body is geared to running on sugar.

Our bodies also are not bomb calorimeters - our bodies process calories differently, depending on the type of macronutrient.



As I understand it those are the basics of the error in the calories in/calories out premise. There's probably plenty of other fallacies in the assumption that calories in/calories out is all that matters - I just don't have enough knowledge of the biochemical processes to be able to list them all.
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