Re: How is pizza fatning?

In article <1120880816.336281.102590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" <sbharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article <1120874377.743470.7130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" <sbharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > amsdcj@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > I don't understand how a normal oven or pan fried pizza is fatning.
> > > > It's basically like a sandwhich. It's got dough and water for the base,
> > > > then meat, and vegetables. What is the fatning part of it?
> > >
> > >
> > > COMMENT:
> > >
> > > The oil and cheese. Commercial pizzas drip with oil. Put one hot on a
> > > napkin.
> > >
> >
> > Oil is not the fattening part.
> >
> > All the flour/starch in the crust is.
> >
> > Don't eat the crust. Just the topping. ;-)
>
>
> COMMENT:
>
> http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/54295.html
>
> Less than half the calories are from carbs, so your comment about this
> being the fattening part is BS. Calories are fattening no matter from
> where they come.
>
> A Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza is 35% fat calories, 20% protein calories,
> and 45% carb calories.
>
> Because of the relatively high fat and protein content, commercial
> take-out pizza is calorically very dense: more than 2.5 kcal/g. This is
> the REAL thing which makes it such a fattening food. You can easily eat
> 4 slices before you think about it, and get 1800 kcal.
>
> Other kinds of pizza from the same source can be looked at here:
>
> http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/manufacturer/54.html
>
>
> SBH
>

Not all calories are created equal...

Carb calories count more than fat and protien calories.
Has to do with the way they are processed.

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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