[ExI] Good Calories, Bad Calories

Harvey Newstrom mail at harveynewstrom.com
Mon May 9 17:27:44 UTC 2011


Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote,
> Is it really your understanding that Taubes means that a man with a
> 250-calories-per-day allowance administered in the form of bread, or
> glucose, would die of starvation as a fat man? :-/

Yes.  Taubes gives the example of obese women with starving babies.  He
argues that no mother would eat food while their baby starves.  So he
literally claims that the women are eating less total calories than a
starving baby, yet they are still growing obese.  He says their fat
metabolism is out of whack, causing them to store fat even though they
are not getting enough to eat.

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Good Calories, Bad Calories
> From: Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, May 09, 2011 12:59 pm
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> 
> 
> On 7 May 2011 23:11, Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com> wrote:
> > Unless I totally misunderstood Taubes, I believe this is exactly what he
> > is saying.  The whole premise of "Good calories, Bad calories" is that
> > carb calories make you fat no matter how few you eat, and that fat
> > calories won't make you fat no matter how many you eat.
> 
> Is it really your understanding that Taubes means that a man with a
> 250-calories-per-day allowance administered in the form of bread, or
> glucose, would die of starvation as a fat man? :-/
> 
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> Stefano Vaj
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