Which is all irrelevant to the question of whether 1000 carbohydrate calories are equivalent to 1000 fat calories – just as your complaint about 1000 calories being “quite a lot” is irrelevant to the mathematics at hand.
The points remains that fat calories are more readily stored than carbohydrate calories, which is why weight loss exercise programs focus on burning fat, rather than carbs. I honestly don’t understand why you have such trouble comprehending this concept.
I would like to thank everyone for the very good information here…so I guess I’ll drink a cup of coffee or two before going running from now on…
barbitu8
The relationship is very easy to understand (from the information that was previously given):
Fat is burned only after it is absorbed and stored, carbs are burned before they turn into fat.
So:
If I burn 1000 calories of stored fat, then I burn 1000 calories of stored fat. (that’s evident)
But, if I burn 1000 calories of carbs, I burn a potential of 750 calories of stored fat.
So, not regarding what I eat, the most efficient way to lose weight through exercise is to target burning fat because, it makes you lose more fat…
On the issue of burning calories by drinking cold liquids:
The supposition is that, since one calorie is needed to raise the temperature of each gram of the ingested liquid each degree Celsius until the temperature differential from cold glass to 37[sup]o[/sup]C has been bridged, the body will burn a bunch of calories just coming back up to temperature after taking a in a cold bolus. Unfortunately for the creative dieter, this supposition neglects to take into account the fact that food calories are actually kilocalories.