you're technically right, but just nitpicking. Of course you could count the calories in fibers and that wouldn't make you fat, as your body can't process that. But most people do not eat fiber for 90% of their meals
I was hinting at something bigger than just a nitpick. I'm hypothesizing that gut flora interfere with macronutrient ingestion in a statistically significant way.
Microorganisms exist which produce glucose from materials that, if ingested by a human, would be emitted as waste.
What if colonies of these microorganisms were present in the human gut and unevenly distributed in the population?
People often switch from more processed grains to whole grains specifically to increase their fiber intake and reduce the processable calories they're ingesting. I don't think it's nitpicking at all, this is the most basic stuff you need to think about when doing dieting - CICO is naive at best.
yeah, foods with more fiber will also make you less hungry, which in turn makes you eat less calories...
CICO is a great approach for the general population, and works great even amongst professionals that have weight management as their career (bodybuilders).
acuozzo|3 years ago
I was hinting at something bigger than just a nitpick. I'm hypothesizing that gut flora interfere with macronutrient ingestion in a statistically significant way.
Microorganisms exist which produce glucose from materials that, if ingested by a human, would be emitted as waste.
What if colonies of these microorganisms were present in the human gut and unevenly distributed in the population?
lukeschlather|3 years ago
gassiss|3 years ago
CICO is a great approach for the general population, and works great even amongst professionals that have weight management as their career (bodybuilders).