«But people who live on SNAP benefits don't just have to get nutrients, they have to
get actual calories, because they tend to have very physical lives, doing service labor and taking care of children and not necessarily being able to afford a car and so forth.»
Does this mean that for every bar (musclepharm combar crunch for example or Oh yeah bars) I need to multiple the fibre by 4 grams to
get the ACTUAL Calories that are in those bars?
Not exact matches
Not only that, but when they cut
calories, they drop a pound of muscle mass for every two to three pounds of the
actual thing you want to
get rid of: body fat.
Then, researchers overfed the volunteers by about 950
calories each day, which meant they
got about 140 percent of their
actual daily needs, for eight weeks.
When you
get to 3 or 4 weeks your
actual weight (if you insist on using scales) may not be as great compared to someone who starves themselves on a dramatic
calorie restricted diet.
Thus the BV score doesn't reflect the
actual total amount of protein in a given amount of a plant food and whether the whole food eaten to provide all
calories wouldn't provide excess total protein and thus provide more mg of the limiting EAA than you would
get from the BV method.
When trying to lose weight it can be easy to
get caught up in counting
calories, sugars, and fat grams, and totally forget about the
actual nutrition of the food itself.