Horizan last night got me thinking about fatty foods

[natalie_1982]

After watching Horizon last night it got me thinking .... there are lots of examples on TV of how if you overeat you will put on weight, just off the top of my head in the past week I can think of Horizon: Why are thin people not fat?, Supersize vs. Superskinny and that Gok Wan thing on 4. So we can all assume that if you increase your calorie intake by eating, as demonstrated in the said programmes, burgers, chips, full milkshakes, chocolate, pasta, etc etc you will gain weight and fat will collect around your organs.

What would happen to your body if you doubled your calorie intake (like in last night's show) but did it by only eating calorific healthy food like nuts, seeds, pineapple, avocado, mango, melon, etc? I know you are still taking on the same amount of calories but would it collect around your organs in the same way as, say, butter or cream would?

Should this go in the science section?

[natalie_1982]

Whereas I would imagine it would be quite fragrant going in after someone who lives on a diet of chips, burgers, milkshakes and chocolate?

Can always rely on you knobby...... lol

:-)

[natalie_1982]

Of course I would..... except I don't drive. I have a spare buggy though and would be happy to push you wherever you want to go. Now bog off out of my thread Mr Knobs... I keep thinking there are serious people answering here, and then I rock up to find out it's you.....! :-P

[pastafreak]

I saw last nights program also. What you suggest would be an interesting experiment....but I would do it with very low fat foods..ie. leave out the nuts,seeds,avocado-even tho they are healthy fats.
Maybe post this in Science also???

[Naomicorlett]

I think that with high bulk low calorie foods you would have severe trouble eating that amount of calories but having said that excess energy intake would always be converted into fat stores in the body .

[natalie_1982]

Pastafreak, I think that's a good idea, but, like Naomi, I would think it would be difficult to eat that many calories in just fat free foods - 4000cals would be approx 10 bananas, 10 handfuls of grapes, 20 apples, 20 oranges and 8 glasses of orange juice!

[jake-the-peg]

I think what came out of the program was that it's a complicated area with more than one thing going on.

Two of the people simply couldn't overeat that much. Your appetite controls your input and theirs just wouldn't allow them to eat that much - one threw up when he tried.

Similarly some people have appetite problems where eating the "right" amount leaves them permanently starving.

Then there was the fat virus and the one person who built muscle really easily.

So it's not as simple as people like to think.

But to answer your specific question, Fruit has a lot of sugar in it and your boody can and will convert that to fat.

[natalie_1982]

Thanks J-t-P, I know that fruit is high in sugar which is why I suggested those specific fruits as they are highest in calories, and I understand that your body will convert it to fat. But what I don't understand is what it will do to your body, for example there are 200cals in two bananas and 200cals in a chocolate bar, but would this necessarily mean that the 200cals would have the same effect on your body?

[mccfluff]

so basically will fruit fat collect round your organs and be as harmful as animal fat?

don't know and now you've got me wondering......

[natalie_1982]

Basically, yes, mccfluff. You put it much better than me.

But you have left me with an image of a bunch of bananas hanging off my liver....

[mccfluff]

fruit fat is bringing wonderful imagins of obese fruit to my mind, i need to get out more :-)

[natalie_1982]

Maybe that's why you don't see many abese fruit bats :-P

[mccfluff]

or fat fruit flies, stop it you've got me going off on a mental now.........

i'll be obsessing for days

what do you reckon parma ham does to cats i just lost a fight with murph and she nicked a whole slice :-(