carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) (10/09/84)
> > All this information is based on burning food in a Calorimeter. > The experts could be somewhat wrong to believe the body behaves > exactly as a Calorimeter. After all, isn't protein really > meant to build and maintain the body? > > That is, when the amino acids pass into the circulation they > are used to reconstruct more than 1,600 different kinds of > protein that make up muscle tissues, hormones, enzymes, etc. > Why would the body use amino acids as fuel? Except if forced > to? > Now don't take this personally. I'm really mad about this and have lost all control, so please don't hold me responsible until after this episode has subsided. Really, Before you say anything in net.med that is intended as information you should at least be qualified first. Have you ever heard of Biochemistry, the Krebs Cycle? Have you ever had a Biology course before? in a college? in high school? in grammer school? I would like to think that this news group could be a source of GOOD information and discussion about current topics in medicine. IF YOU DON'T KNOW SOMETHING, ASK. MAYBE SOMEBODY KNOWS AN ANSWER, AT LEAST A REASONABLE ANSWER. JUST DON'T TAKE A POSITION OF AUTHORITY IN THIS NEWS GROUP UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. "Nutrition Puzzle Solved" was and still is the biggest bag of garbage I have ever read. -- Carter Bullard ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet:Carter @ Gatech ARPA:Carter.Gatech @ CSNet-relay.arpa uucp:...!{akgua,allegra,amd,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!carter
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (10/11/84)
In article <10440@gatech.UUCP> carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) writes: > "Nutrition Puzzle Solved" was and still is the biggest bag of garbage > I have ever read. > The information in the referenced article is almost verbatim from "Fit or Fat" and its sequel (I can't remember the title, but it's the one with most of the information about fat) by Covert Bailey. I found them both well written, informative, correct (within the state of current knowledge at the time they were written) books. More importantly, my wife, who is a PhD student in Biology/Biochemistry agrees. She pointed out only one flaw that she could see, which was only proven false very recently - that is the myth that complex carbohydrates digest more slowly than simple ones (bet you didn't know that was a myth, did you?). Turns out it's much more complicated than that, and I think "they" don't have a good correlation with anything at this point. (This myth was information that was considered "obvious", so nobody tested it until recently.) So my advice to you is don't flame if you don't have all the facts. =Spencer
carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) (10/15/84)
> In article <10440@gatech.UUCP> carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) writes: > > "Nutrition Puzzle Solved" was and still is the biggest bag of garbage > > I have ever read. > > > recently - that is the myth that complex carbohydrates digest more > slowly than simple ones (bet you didn't know that was a myth, did > you?). Turns out it's much more complicated than that, and I think > "they" don't have a good correlation with anything at this point. (This > myth was information that was considered "obvious", so nobody tested it > until recently.) > > So my advice to you is don't flame if you don't have all the facts. > > =Spencer Its not that they digest more slowly, its that the blood glucose level changes after ingestion are not what some people would expect. Along with the fact that glucose level changes are altered by the concurrent ingestion of other carbohydrate stuffs indicates that there is competitive absorption of specific carbohydrate complexations. Ask your wife how much amylase is in human saliva and then ask her to calculate how many moles of say dextrose can be "digested" before it gets to the stomach. Anyway, I am a PhD student in Pharmacology on leave from Temple University School of Medicine. I may not be a nutritionist but at least I feel that I am qualified. -- Carter Bullard ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet:Carter @ Gatech ARPA:Carter.Gatech @ CSNet-relay.arpa uucp:...!{akgua,allegra,amd,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!carter