Re: Oats or Ice-cream?
- From: "MMu" <brilhasti@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:25:35 +0200
"joni" <jgrrl2@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> MMu wrote:
>> The calories labeled on food are energy contents and do not take
>> digestibility factors into account..
>> this means that a diet high in simple sugars that has 100kcal and a diet
>> with complex carbs that has 100kcal will not actually deliver the exact
>> same
>> ammount of energy because the first does not need to be digested.
>> I guess the difference however will be rather marginal.
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> I would think the difference between these would be more than
> 'marginal' because those 'digestibility factors' play a big part in how
> your body uses the two foods comparitively. Even tho the are close in
> calories, the simple sugar item would be more likely to increase an
> insulin spike response which in turn it is more likely to be shoved
> into a fatcell for stored energy at some later date that never comes.
> Whereas a slow digesting complex carb like oats, has a slower insulin
> response and is more likely to be used for energy needed to complete
> tasks at hand than to be stored. So even tho certain foods have the
> same amount of calories as another, its those digestive factors that
> determine how the body uses or stores them as bodyfat.
Generally no objection there (however: insulin repsonse from one isolated
food item does not say much about the insulin response when that item is
combined in a diet with others);
I was talking about "calories in food are not calories in the body" though.
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> joanne
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