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<blockquote data-quote="Mr_Pot" data-source="post: 1889272" data-attributes="member: 216415"><p>The exact calorific value of a pound of fat is not really important. The point is, that although you could burn a pound of fat in a laboratory and find out how many calories are generated, this does not mean that eating an "excess" of that amount of calories would lead to a gain of a pound of fat, or a "deficit" of that amount of calories would mean a loss of a pound of fat. There are several reasons, including the fact that Basic Metabolic Rate varies and food needs energy to digest, that means that the things don't equate. Suppose I grew a marrow and it contained a litre of water, if I watered it with a litre of water it would not exactly double in size and then with another litre of water, exactly triple in size and so on. Some of the water would be wasted, some would go to build other parts of the plant, and the genetic makeup of the plant would affect the size of the marrows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr_Pot, post: 1889272, member: 216415"] The exact calorific value of a pound of fat is not really important. The point is, that although you could burn a pound of fat in a laboratory and find out how many calories are generated, this does not mean that eating an "excess" of that amount of calories would lead to a gain of a pound of fat, or a "deficit" of that amount of calories would mean a loss of a pound of fat. There are several reasons, including the fact that Basic Metabolic Rate varies and food needs energy to digest, that means that the things don't equate. Suppose I grew a marrow and it contained a litre of water, if I watered it with a litre of water it would not exactly double in size and then with another litre of water, exactly triple in size and so on. Some of the water would be wasted, some would go to build other parts of the plant, and the genetic makeup of the plant would affect the size of the marrows. [/QUOTE]
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