Paleogal wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Todd Moody" <[log in to unmask]>
> The question is, why did he not gain weight immediately?  Let's make
> some assumptions, based on what we are told here.  Let's suppose that
> this lean person normally uses about 3,000 calories per day.  He doesn't
> exercise much.  So he's taking in 1,000 excess calories a day for a
> week, which equals 7,000 excess calories.  At 3,500 excess calories per
> pound of stored fat, he should have gained two pounds of fat in that
> week.  So even with a loss of a pound of water from ketosis, he should
> have been a pound heavier.  Incidentally, Taubes discusses a study
> similar to this, conducted at the Mayo Clinic in 1999.  It involved 16
> volunteers who were overfed by 1,000 calories per day for eight weeks.
> All were healthy, normal weight individuals.  All gained weight but the
> amount varied almost ten-fold, from one pound to nine pounds.  But this
> wasn't a lowcarb study, just a demonstration that even in a mixed diet
> excess calories don't affect all people the same way.
>
> Isn't excess anything, excess?  Excess protein causes weight gain, sugar 
> spikes, excess carbs, depending on the carbs, causes weight gain, excess fat 
> causes weight gain. Not enough of any of them will cause a metabolic 
> downturn.  Oliva
>   
The point is that, despite the dogma that a calorie is a calorie, a 
similar caloric surplus brings about dramatically different results in 
different people.

Todd Moody
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