On you, maybe.
Posted on 09/23/2021 11:06:12 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Not PEANUTS which are all carbs though.
Almonds and pecans - maybe. But they’ll also fill you up fast.
Nuts!
5.56mm
“If you want to lose weight, eat more bacon and lard and less white bread, potatoes and rice.”
All this talk of bacon and nuts brought back a memory.
2 years ago I stumbled onto the BEST BEST BEST peanut brittle recipe in the entire universe. It’s time consuming, and I never use peanuts but pecan/walnuts/pistachios/you get it.
First you have to candy a POUND of good quality bacon which takes at least 2 hours slowly in the oven until chewy but not crunchy. You use honey, brown sugar, and a little cayenne powder. Then you make the brittle and at the end after adding the baking soda stir in the broken up candied bacon. OMG!!! What I gave away as Christmas treats didn’t last the day I’m told. What I had lasted maybe 3. Bacon and nuts in brittle. Too bad about the sugar part but maybe they cancel one another out?
“If you want to lose weight, eat more bacon and lard and less white bread”
What about white bread fried in bacon grease? :)
Feed me macadamia nuts and I am guaranteed to lose weight, since NOTHING will remain inside me for a couple of days.
I’ll be less than useless, but I will lose weight...
Cashews are my junk food
Probably eat about 2.5 lbs a week.
When we were farming full time (milking cows, with other cattle on two additional farms) one bad winter Hubs was losing weight like crazy. I counted up and he started losing more slowly at 4,000 calories a day and stabilized about 6,000 a day.
It’s not like that any more ;-)
On you, maybe.
And here I thought this post was about Nicki Minaj’s cousins friends friends fiance and his pants melons.
Which nuts?
Deez nuts... moohahaha
Eat lots of nuts, but watch out for salt—sodium—in them.
Best to get unsalted or lightly salted nuts, especially peanuts, which can have a day’s worth of sodium in a half cup.
He is *not* saying it takes more energy to digest fats, than fats produce.
He is saying eating fat is associated with higher metabolic rates.
It is considerably different.
Change your metabolic rate, you will burn more calories. In effect, you are getting the body to "exercise" without making a conscious decision to exercise.
But, the effects are relatively small.
Not surprisingly, he does *not* reference the supposed research he claims to have read. It should be easy to link to the research. He does not do it.
I am *not* saying the type of calories eaten does not affect apatite, or even metabolic rate. It may, and it may be somewhat dependent on the individual and genotype.
Here is an article which claims to state the amount of energy used to digest different types of food:
Fat - 3% of the calories consumed used to digest fat. Fibrous vegetables and fruit - 20% of the calories consumed used to digest them. Protein - 30% of the calories consumed used to digest them. Yes, proteins are relatively expensive to digest. Fat isn't.
Interestingly, the article says the fatter you are, the more efficient you are at digesting food. Hard to know if this is cause or effect, from the article.
This article says the thermic effect (how many calories it takes to digest food) is about the same for fat and for carbohydrates (about 5%).
The idea that fats can’t provide excess energy is obviously wrong.
Your body has to work a lot hard to catabolize fats. Same argument.
Eskimos, Sami, Mongolians: “Don’t give a sh%t”.
They eat lots of fat yet they are not fat.
You proved my point.
So do I. Meat fats. Nut fats. Dairy fats. A few apples and gross broccoli and spinach as I can stand to offset. Still pretty lean for a 50 year old.
Sugars, on the other hand, yield multiple times more energy than it takes to catabolize them.
That has been shown not to be correct. You get about twice as much energy per gram of fat as you do from sugars, after the cost of catabolizing both.
It is not the cost of digestion (catabolize) that keeps Eskimos from becoming obese. It is they expend enormous amounts of calories. Calories that come, in large part, from fat.
E. Pluribus Unum stated:
They eat lots of fat yet they are not fat.
You proved my point.
That does not prove your point. It only shows they expend a lot of energy, obtained from fat.
Here is a paper about metabolism and carbohydrates. From the paper: The metabolic efficiency with which fats are oxidized is 98% that of glucose, proteins about 80%, alcohol about 90%, SCFAs (direct oxidation) about 85–90%.
Oh man...I save the melted bacon fat in a glass jar every time after cooking bacon . It is better for frying than butter or olive oil because it gives better taste to the fried food. Especially corn tortilla’s and eggs.
Main point is eat enough fat in your food because it digests slower than carbs and thus keeps the blood sugar levels more stable. And that keeps one from getting hungry too quickly.
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