A stick of butter, dipped in caramel, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Yum!
Or a Good Morning Burger - a half pound hamburger patty, soaked in butter, topped with a fried egg, bacon, and slice of ham.
Also, some of the large smoothies at Smoothie King approach 2,000 calories.
all of you lot are way off the mark. in glasgow there are a few chippies (fish and chip shops for those that dont know) that serve deep-fried mars bars. if you cant make it to scotland simply get a deep pan chip fryer, fill it with oil/lard/goose fat and chuck a mars bar in there for a few minutes until it is covered with a thick layer of lovely batter.
mmmmm…
There was a discussion here some time ago about why it’s so difficult to lose weight and some women mentioned some large and delicious sandwiches they would eat at one sitting, and the number of calories listed on the companies website were about 2638 calories!! This is for one sandwich for one person. It was simply an insane amount of calories for any human other than an extreme athlete or a 350 lb football player to eat for one sandwich at one meal.
If you’re looking for most fattening food in terms of volume consumed at one meal these would have to rank somewhere up there.
Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
Or my personal favorite: chicken fried bacon.
This puts your Body Mass Index at 18.65, which is within the healthy range for adults according to the Center for Disease Control:
The thing about fat is that it leaves you unable to eat for a much longer period than sugar and simple starches. That is the reason the Atkins diet works (and it really does). And there is no real evidence that a diet high in vegetable fats isn’t healthy. But I had a friend who was temporarily impecunious and he lived off a lot of macaroni and bread (and to be honest, cheese) and his wieght balooned up in no time.
Eating mainly fat (except for transfats) is a very effective way to loose weight and feel less hungry. You must add in carbs in amounts to triger insulin responses.
Fats take a long time to break down to be absorbed, starches and sugar get absorbed very quickly.
Think of it this way, your job is to burn logs in the fireplace. If someone brings you a log every 20 minutes you would most likely be able to burn them as they come in and have very little to pile up (fats). If you get a big load at once (10 logs) you can’t possibly even fit them all in the fireplace, you may get 2 or 3 in and pile up the rest, now you are tired and as the fire dies you really don’t feel like putting more logs in from the pile, so you order more and put another 3 in and pile the rest up again(carbs).
Take it from a going on 10 yr Atkid - if you eat almost exclusivly fats you will lose weight (actually this is a technique used by Atkins to help people who are having great difficulty loosing weight or their weight loss has stalled - it’s called a fat fast.
k2dave wrote:
That’s simply not true. Carbs, fats, and protein all stimulate the release of insulin, it’s just that fats and proteins do so to a lesser extent than carbs do. And not all carbs trigger a similar amount of insulin release, either.
It still probably depends on how many calories you eat, overall. If you eat nothing but 10 pounds of butter a day, you’ll gain weight.
But along those lines, vanilla can always try the Janeane Garofalo weight-gain diet: “two bowls of cereal and then straight to bed.”
Back to the OP…
Eric Bana, during the filming of “Chopper”, had to put on 30 pounds in four weeks.
"Bana recalls his crash weight gain as “an absolute shitload of junk-how to destroy your body in four weeks: saturated fats, sugary things, lots of beer and milk. Luckily, I had time off after the film and there was no reason for me to get it off in a hurry. I did it slowly over six months.”
My suggestion …
Lots of pasta in butter washed down with coke is good.
And now the hijack continuation…
For balance, why low-carbohydrate diets are NOT healthy.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/lcd.html
Mayonnaise! About 200 calories per spoonfull.
Now a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwitch should
be east to eat. IF you eat it with cream.
Ok, is NOBODY going to suggest that she test foods by rubbing them on a piece of paper??
<Dr. NIck>If it turns clear it’s your window to weight gain</Dr. NIck>
If I were to want to gain weight, I would choose the more healthy fatty foods, such as nuts and avocado. Adding those to a healthy sandwich or salad is an easy way to up your calorie intake. If you’re eating a pretty balanced diet as it is, adding cheese and/or bacon bits is a good idea too.
Sorry, that is just plain wrong.
Insulin is released (by beta cells in the pancreas) when blood glucose rises. Vertebrate metabolism can make glucose out of proteins, but is cannot make glucose out of fats.
Eating carbohydrates will stimulate the release of insulin. Eating proteins might eventually stimulate the release of insulin. Eating fats cannot stimulate the release of insulin.
Check any text on endocrinology. Check any text on metabolism. Look it up in Encyclopaedia Britannica. These are well-established facts.
Regards,
Agback
Agback wrote:
No need to apologize, but I think it’s much less “plain wrong” than is “You must add in carbs in amounts to triger insulin responses,” since the very act of eating triggers an insulin release through mechanisms other than blood glucose.
Any such simplistic statements about how insulin works (with no fewer than five or six - I forget - stimulators, and at least two inhibitors) are bound to be flat-out wrong. Apparently, you’ll agree, as do the pages linked below, that other things besides carbs do, indeed, trigger insulin secretion from beta cells (like certain amino acids - from dietary proteins). You won’t agree regarding fats, however.
And I’ll readily admit that the online medical text I got that tidbit of information from may have been wrong (I can’t find it now, perhaps because it was, indeed, wrong). However, given the massive complexity of the human body, statements like your “Eating fats cannot stimulate the release of insulin” (emphasis mine) require just as much support as mine do (or k2dave’s do, for that matter).
Looking over the evidence I can find, I can see that other hormones actively suppress insulin secretion when fat is eaten. However, Wuesten (et al) recently showed that oral fat intake increases the sensitivity of beta-cells to glucose, which perhaps explains why Gannon (et al) previously found that eating fats with carbs provoked more of an insulin response than did eating carbs alone (which is perhaps why the text I’d read said that fats triggered insulin production on their own - was that their mistake?).
No matter what, as said above, simple statements which attempt to desribe very complex processes are bound to be incorrect (some more incorrect than others), and I thank you (and thus k2dave) for providing a stimulus for me to fight my own ignorance on this matter.
Here are just a few URLs for you, as promised above:[ul]
[li]http://www.pcosupport.org/living/nutrition/insulinre.php[/li][li]http://insulin-pumpers.org/howto/pfandbs-3.html[/li][li]http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/pancreas/insulin_phys.html[/li][/ul]
At some point, when a certain type of food is ingested almost entirely over another, and activity levels remain constant, it doesn’t matter if you eat 5000 cals per day from fat, sugar(carbs) or protein.
If this is the dominant calorie source for your body, then all calories are equal, regardless of insulin levels, etc.
90% of diet is about calorie totals, while worrying about sugar cals veruses fat and protein cals is for FINE TUNING.
Eating 5000 cals of fat every day makes the issue of all the insulin levels and fine tuning carbs and proteins a big fat MOOT point.
5000 cals of fat every day might equal 3lbs gained per week, whereas concerning yourself with all the other balances might equal 1/4 pound sway in one direction or another.
At the extreme being discussed, a calorie is a calorie.
Philster While a calorie is a calorie, eating cheap carbs generally makes it easier for you to consume more calories via the insulin response.
I am soooooooooooooooooo hungry!
VODKA 
will net you about as much calories per unit weight as pure cane sugar.
I’ve always heard that fettuccine alfredo was the highest caloric entree one might be likely to encounter. Butter, cream and cheese!!!
Actually, if you put the leftovers in the fridge, it does harden to a large, lumpy bowl-shaped pat of butter.
goes to fridge to check butter and heavy cream supplies