Comments on: Did you ever wonder how you are going to die?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 21 May 2014 17:13:47 +0000

See this, a writeup of the event with the video: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2014/05/21/forum-science-democracy-and-a-healthy-food-policy/

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:09:59 +0000

In reply to ole.

Yes, essentially. 1000 calories of fat will give you fat. 1000 calories of non-fat complex carbohydrates might do a good job of giving you hours of energy as it is digested, and chances are some of it won’t be digested into usable energy. 1000 calories of simple sugar, all at once, is too much too fast to use as energy so some will be converted to stored energy, and depending on what the liver already has stored up, some/much of that will be converted into fat.

It simply isn’t the case that 1000 calories is 1000 calories. It depends on what form it comes in and the rate of ingestion.

This is not controversial or even particularly new.

By: ole

ole — Fri, 09 May 2014 16:04:37 +0000

I think that this was not up to par. Do you claim that 2000 calories of one food promotes more weight gain/fat accumulation than 2000 calories of some other food? Really?

Please see if you can find any *closed ward* studies supporting that premise.

Ole

By: holy cow

holy cow — Fri, 09 May 2014 08:34:04 +0000

This is really interesting. Any thoughts on how this could counter our enormous effort to destroy the planet?

By: Smarter Than Your Average Bear

Smarter Than Your Average Bear — Wed, 07 May 2014 22:59:04 +0000

Now compunding the above problem is http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-change-food-crops-nutrition rising CO2 levels are reducing the nutrient value of the foods we do grow.