Calories In Your Food

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Doc Bunkum

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So I'm reading this pamphlet from Prevention magazine that was stuck in my newspaper - "a free guide packed with some of the most remarkable cures and health advice you have ever seen".

Usually Prevention has some pretty main stream stuff. But I ran across something that struck me as rather odd in a section where they were talking about weight loss. Let me quote that blurb...

"In your free copy of Permanent Weight Loss Made Easy, you'll learn about a remarkable nutrient that actually soaks up many of the calories in your food... like a fat absorbing sponge."

Huh? How's that again?

I didn't know there were actual calories in food. Calories don't exist - they're a unit of measurement. So how could this "remarkable nutrient" soak them up?

Am I being pedantic, or does this strike anyone else as somewhat odd wording?
 
Calories don't exist
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OH HALLELUJAH!!!

Seriously though - yes, food has actual calories - that is proteins and carbs contain 4 calories per gram and fats contain 9 calories per gram. That is how much energy each gram of proteins, carbs or fats will give your body when they are digested. Excess food ingested is excess energy, which is stored in adipose tissue. Weather you want to call it calories, energy or what ever, it really is there :)

As far as something that absorbs that energy before it is either released or stored in our bodies as fat ... that sounds a bit on the hoakie side to me :)

God Bless,
mik
 
Let me explain what I'm trying to say another way.

When food is digested we're left with protein, fat and carbohydrate molecules floating around. Certain fat blockers are supposed to attach to fat molecules and usher them out of the body.

That aside, I've never heard of "calorie molecules".

They seem to be implying there is such a thing though that can be soaked up "like a fat absorbing sponge" by this remarkable nutrient.

Piddly point, I know.
 
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I vote pedantic, on the grounds that those claims are intentionally written like snake-oil pitches.

I bet 27 cents that the miracle nutrient is fiber.
 
Doc - agreed. It's taking advantage of the general level of ignorance in the population.

Allyphoe - I bet you are right! Does that give us 54 cents? :p

God Bless,
mik
 
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