LetalisK said:
rutger5000 said:
Yet that's exactly how it works. The human digest system is a funny thing. The energy in those chips is pure fat, and will be very effectively be transformed in your own fat. The energy in those 7 pieces of fruit is in natural sugars. They converted to bodily sugar if your body is low on them, or simply pass through your body if they don't.
But perhaps there's a cultural-economics difference here. I've had American orange juice (basically liquid sugar), chicken (2 words hormones and antibiotics, don't eat them) and bread (O my f*cking God, I wouldn't even eat that again if I was paid for it). Yet you consider this as healthy, quality food. If that is what passes for healthy food in America, than I suppose there is a case to be made for quantity over quality.
That's only true if you're taking some sort of medication to force everything through you quickly or you have a digestive disease that prevents you from adequately absorbing fructose. The body simply passing fructose through your body would actually lead to lactose intolerance-like symptoms as the bacteria in your digestive tract now has something to feast on that isn't getting absorbed. Not to mention it would mean traditional sodas would no longer make you fat as their primary sweetener is fructose based(high fructose corn syrup). Your liver will break down and absorb all the fructose you take in[footnote]and fructose toxicity can occur if too much fructose is taken in, though I suspect it's a bit harder to reach that threshold[/footnote] and if it has to break down more than you need, it gets turned into fat.
Though like a disclaimer, I feel the need to tack on that it is less likely to happen if the fructose is coming from something like an apple, where it has more time to digest, than a soda or a juice(juice actually isn't that great for you
if you're trying to lose weight, though moderately better for you than soda).
If I said that quantity was completely irrelevant, than I misspoke. But it's much less important than quantity. I'm responding to the comment of the Lunatik (that's his alias, I'm not insulting anybody) who claimed:
"Being fat has pretty much nothing to do with what you eat, it's about how much of it you are eating.
You can never be fat and healthy, but, it's entirely possibly to be appropriately sized and unhealthy due to poor nutrition. People have lost weight eating nothing but twinkies and hot pockets, it's just a case of not overeating."
And that's utterly and completely false. The exact opposite perhaps isn't completely true if you take it to the extreme. But in all normal cases it really is.
Eating enough fruit will eventually make you fat, but you'll have to eat shit loads of it. For example bananas are a rather fatty fruit, but you'd have to go rather bananas on bananas to make you gain you gain the fat you'd gain from a typical happy meal. And I challenge you to eat so much fruit in a day that you intake the same amount of fructose as you'd from a tall glass of soda. That'd take you a lot of effort.
The stuff you mention about bacteria in your digestive tract gives food for thought. But isn't whatever passes to your digestive tract supposed to still have some nutritious value? Those bacteria aren't there for no reason, and they do need to be fed.
Honestly if you stick with a healthy vegetarian diet than you eat your belly full, and you'll keep a healthy weight. But I'm not a diet expert so I'm not capable of explaining the fine details of the how and why of the matter. I could ask around if you want, but if you're so confused about eating habits that you truly think that quantity is more important than quality, than I suggest you'll do some researching on your own.
