You should know that on my side, I never considered this a flame war. Just a spirited debate aimed at setting the facts straight, in the straight dope spirit.
As for debating plant taxonomy? you’re right, I don’t care. Plus it is too far off this thread to compare lilies to fescue. (a little botany humor).
Also you should know, I read this board for months, along with Cecils archives before even thinking of posting a reply here. So I had respect for you before beginning the debate.
Looking forward to more of the same.
Sorry to dissapoint you, but when I get on my soapbox, I rarely address people directly. You should really learn to discern the “collective you” from the “personal you.” I was merely pontificating, and not attacking. The fact remains that there are a lot of people out there (not you specifically) who think that there is some way to fool the human body. These people (not you specifically) are looking for some diet that will allow them to lose weight quickly and keep it off without some regular exercise plan. These people (not you specifically) often ironically spend their time doing precisely those things that prevent them from losing weight, such as starvation diets, diet without exercise, or temporary behavioral changes.
Jason R Remy
“Open mindedness is not the same thing as empty mindedness.”
– John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)
One cup of celery has 16 calories. Another page I found shows that you burn approximately 115 calories an hour eating. So if it takes approximately 5 minutes to eat a cup of celery, you would use 9 1/2 calories to consume sixteen calories. So no, you don’t get negative calories from celery.
Note also from this page that just sitting burns about 95 calories an hour, so you’re not really increasing your activity levels at all eating celery.
The number of calories you burn drinking water is going to be very inconsequential. Actually absorbing the water does not take any calories, and the activity of lifting the cup & swallowing is not very strenuous.
OTOH, I was told by a Diet Dr. that drinking plenty of water is essential for weight loss, because adequate water allows the kidneys remove toxins in the bloodstream, allowing the liver to process fats and glycogens properly, IIRC.
I said ‘digest’ not “break down” you really can’t digest balsa you can chew it up and churn it up but it is still balsa. when you ‘digest’ you break stuff down to molecular levels.
OLENTZERO, Yes, Iceburg lettuce is definatly off the salad bar for bunnies. I learned the hard way. Then was told by the vet. If i remember right it interferes with that thing they do since they chew the cud but aren’t ruminants. I don’t know about the other types I just avoid um all and use commercial pellets and let the bunnies graze the backyard. I don’t know the species or variety for iceburg , some of the plants we call lettuce aren,t all that closely related. We seem to classify them all lettuce more by taste and appearance than taxonomic reasons.
