🚀 go-pugleaf

JETman wrote:

> Steve Wertz wrote:
> >
> > Felix wrote:
> >
> > > And, boy, aren't you showing them buy refilling it before leaving...
> > > consider that a 12 ounce soda contains about 120 empty calories, drinking
> > > two 32 ounce cups of soda gets you about 600 calories.  Yep, getting fat is
> > > the best way to get your money's worth.  FYI, you'd have to walk or run 6
> > > miles to burn off 600 calories (and that doesn't even touch the calories
> > > from the quarter-pounder/Big Mac and SuperSize fries you ate with that.
> >
> > As you said, they're empty calories.  It's hard to get fat from drinking
> > just soda.
> >
> > -sw
>
> Uh, calories derived from high fructose corn syrups are empty???
>
> From what I have learned... If one is predisposed to high tryglycerides,
> corn syrup along with potatoes are high on the list of culprits...
>
> Calories such as these are difficult for the body to process and usually
> are stored as F-A-T.
>

Well, complex carbs as well as simple sugars are all turned into glucose and if not
used, are then stored as fat.    The only real difference is the rate at which this
process takes place.   Complex carbs are broken down and converted more slowly so
in the event you need energy for a long duration, loading up on complex carbs is
the way to go.  Simple sugars are converted rapidly into glucose and are made ready
for use very quickly.

So, if you eat breads, potatoes, chips, or sugars before bed, your body will have
no choice but to store that energy since it wont be used.   And, how is energy
stored?  It is stored as fat.

How does Atkins diet work?

By limiting the number of calories that you consume that can be coverted to
glucose, your body then converts fats to energy.  And the proteins in your new
diet.

Not only are the fats you eat turned into energy, but the fat on your body, as
well.

If you don't eat and you become very low on fat, your body will begin to break down
muscle for energy.  Not a good idea.