# Can You Pass the Fat Quiz? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062 "2009-02-09T14:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/21 "2009-02-09T17:37:11Z")
11/12 I still think that the one I got wrong could be argued as being correct, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/22 "2009-02-09T17:47:32Z")
10/12 here. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/23 "2009-02-09T18:25:29Z")
Another 10/12 here. The eating before bed threw me. Forgot the other. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/24 "2009-02-09T18:38:02Z")
11/12–I missed the one with too many choices! So with as much as I know about this stuff, why do I have such a big ass? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/25 "2009-02-09T18:45:05Z")
12 of 12… and yet I’m still fat. What gives?! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/26 "2009-02-09T18:48:18Z")
> [@masterofnone](#): > > 11/12 > > How in the hell can protein be stored as fat? Your body isn’t going to just waste it if it can’t use it as protein; it’ll convert it in case you can’t eat tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/27 "2009-02-09T19:01:50Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ten of twelve correct. > > I’m hungry. Yes and no, for me. Just got back from a big lunch. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![masterofnone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@masterofnone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/masterofnone)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/28 "2009-02-09T19:05:53Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Your body isn’t going to just waste it if it can’t use it as protein; it’ll convert it in case you can’t eat tomorrow. I meant how does it get from amino acids to fat metabolically? (Not that I really want to know- I’ve got a metabolic pathway chart on the wall here at work, and I could look it up if I really wanted to have flashbacks of bio chem. shudder!!!) ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/29 "2009-02-09T19:41:29Z")
12/12. > [@Jake](#): > > Another 10/12 here. The eating before bed threw me. Forgot the other. I’m curious about this, because so many people seem to believe it. _Why_ would eating before bed mean your body uses those calories any differently? I just can’t get my mind around where this comes from. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/30 "2009-02-09T19:57:53Z")
> [@jali](#): > > The “no eating right before bed” fallacy is something I believed. It tends to be true for me because if I have a hard and fast rule about “no eating after 9 pm,” I have a meal, with an appropriate number of calories at 8:30 and I stop eating. When I don’t have that kind of rule, I tend to have some food around 7, but then keep snacking and snacking and snacking until bedtime. And those snacks tend not to be celery or broccoli florets. So it’s overall a higher calorie consumption. 11/12 and I would argue the one I got wrong. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/31 "2009-02-09T20:10:47Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > 12/12. > > I’m curious about this, because so many people seem to believe it. _Why_ would eating before bed mean your body uses those calories any differently? I just can’t get my mind around where this comes from. My theory - a lot of people tend to snack mindlessly at night, and thus eat too many calories, and gain weight. So they cut that out, and attribute the weight loss to the TIME they are eating, rather than realizing they were just cutting calories. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/32 "2009-02-09T20:23:08Z")
10/12, that one with 5 or 6 answers, including “All of the Above”, and “A & B”, and “A & B & D” or whatever confused me a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/33 "2009-02-09T20:30:26Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > 12/12. > > I’m curious about this, because so many people seem to believe it. _Why_ would eating before bed mean your body uses those calories any differently? I just can’t get my mind around where this comes from. 'Cause Oprah said so, several years ago, and people figure that because she’s filthy rich, her trainers must know what they’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/34 "2009-02-09T20:37:37Z")
9/12. About not eating at night: what I always heard was, you’d be resting all night so the body would automatically store it as fat. I got that one right, though. I missed the ‘how many calories in a pound’ and the one about protein stored as fat. I forget the other one. ---
**Author:** ![purple\_cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@purple\_cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purple_cow)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/35 "2009-02-09T21:48:51Z")
I have a problem with the eating before bed question. Yes, it wil be metabolized the same way, but it is also true that some will be stored as fat, just like any meal. So both answers are correct. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/36 "2009-02-09T22:01:24Z")
Me the bomb, score perfect. All the “correct” answers resonated with my own experience, too. I lost 50 lbs. over 8 months about 3 years ago and have kept it off by: - eating what I like but in small amounts 4-5 times a day - understanding that it’s _how much_ I eat, not “what” I eat that matters most - setting calorie goals on a weekly, not daily basis (allowing for daily variation) - doing moderate exercise regularly (more intensively when trying to lose weight) I’d tried all sorts of restrictive diets before and nothing had worked, I like eating what I like and eventually I will eat it. But learning to only eat until I’m not hungry – and allowing myself to balance the occasional, even weekly or bi-weekly indulgences by averaging out the calories over a week’s time – that is very sustainable, and proved very effective. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/37 "2009-02-09T22:01:42Z")
> [@masterofnone](#): > > I meant how does it get from amino acids to fat metabolically? (Not that I really want to know- I’ve got a metabolic pathway chart on the wall here at work, and I could look it up if I really wanted to have flashbacks of bio chem. shudder!!!) I think that protein can be converted to fat, but only indirectly. Amino acids from protein can be converted into glucose ([gluconeogenesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis)), and glucose can be used to produce fat. I’m not sure how easy that process is, but I’m sure it could happen if you eat a large amount of protein. Calories are calories no matter what the source. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/38 "2009-02-09T22:01:43Z")
I got 12/12 too but one was a lucky guess. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/39 "2009-02-09T22:17:01Z")
The first question is phrased very poorly: “Right after eating, your weight will increase.” The correct answer is _false_: your weight increased _while_ you were eating. After eating, your weight won’t change absent further consumption or expenditure. So aside from that question, I got 11/12. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-fat-quiz/485062/40 "2009-02-09T22:25:54Z")
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