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<blockquote data-quote="aealexandrou" data-source="post: 2220179" data-attributes="member: 503484"><p>Calorie counting is to me illogical. Your body doesn't recognise calories as they are simply an artificial measure used by scientists to tell how long one food burns compared to another. </p><p>Your body will react differently with each food you take. Meat, especially fatty meat will be digested with little impact on insulin and its nutrients distributed quickly. Little will come out at the other end, and there will be plenty of food for your gut biom. Fruits and sugar will be processed by both your liver and gut. The fractose on them will go to your liver and simply turned to fat, because that's all the liver can do with it. The glucose in them will trigger insulin excretion and distributed through the body as energy with your blood. Excess glucose will be stored iinitially in your liver and if that gets full (it has a limited storage space) it will be stored as fat. All carbs are treated the same way. Green vegetables with lots of soluble and insoluble fibre and nutrients are better digested because the fibre slows the rate of absorption allowing the gut to squeeze out the nutrients and distribute them around the body without too much damaging insulin increase. Process carbs, that have little fibre and nutrients simply trigger insulin and have little benefit for your body.</p><p>If you calorie count without taking into account the type of food you eat and retain a moderate or high carb diet, your body will recognise that it is becoming nutrient deficient and will at some stage go into lockdown by reducing your metabolism. Which is why people feel lethargic and down when on a prolonged calorie controlled diet. Your body will need less food to function and you will find the whatever weight you lost will start to go up again. Because your body is working with less fuel, if you return to your old eating habits you will regain that weight and a lot more because of that downward shift in your metabolism.</p><p>Count calories if you must. The better option is to eat the right nutrient rich food e.g. less fructose and processed carbs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aealexandrou, post: 2220179, member: 503484"] Calorie counting is to me illogical. Your body doesn't recognise calories as they are simply an artificial measure used by scientists to tell how long one food burns compared to another. Your body will react differently with each food you take. Meat, especially fatty meat will be digested with little impact on insulin and its nutrients distributed quickly. Little will come out at the other end, and there will be plenty of food for your gut biom. Fruits and sugar will be processed by both your liver and gut. The fractose on them will go to your liver and simply turned to fat, because that's all the liver can do with it. The glucose in them will trigger insulin excretion and distributed through the body as energy with your blood. Excess glucose will be stored iinitially in your liver and if that gets full (it has a limited storage space) it will be stored as fat. All carbs are treated the same way. Green vegetables with lots of soluble and insoluble fibre and nutrients are better digested because the fibre slows the rate of absorption allowing the gut to squeeze out the nutrients and distribute them around the body without too much damaging insulin increase. Process carbs, that have little fibre and nutrients simply trigger insulin and have little benefit for your body. If you calorie count without taking into account the type of food you eat and retain a moderate or high carb diet, your body will recognise that it is becoming nutrient deficient and will at some stage go into lockdown by reducing your metabolism. Which is why people feel lethargic and down when on a prolonged calorie controlled diet. Your body will need less food to function and you will find the whatever weight you lost will start to go up again. Because your body is working with less fuel, if you return to your old eating habits you will regain that weight and a lot more because of that downward shift in your metabolism. Count calories if you must. The better option is to eat the right nutrient rich food e.g. less fructose and processed carbs. [/QUOTE]
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