Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

Re:Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment by dna_polymerase on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:03PM (#20860783)

> No, calories vary massively. If someone ate 2000 calories of vegetables each day and someone else ate 2000 calories of sugar there would be a huge amount of difference between their nutrition.

What? Yes, but calorie wise it's the same. You mix up IIFYM-critique points with calories.

> Going back to the vegetable example, you could eat several kg of green vegetables every day and continue to lose weight.

Because they have close to no calories.

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Re:Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment by jonwinstanley on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:34PM (#20870272)

So we agree that calories a dumb way to track the amount of food you eat in a day?

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Re:Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment by galaxyLogic on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:13PM (#20860855)

I read somewhere that eating raw cabbage means your body has to work extra hard to digest it. Point: don't eat cooked cabbage, eat raw cabbage.

In fact I read eating raw cabbage takes as much energy to digest as it gives you in calories. I don't have a link at hand but I remember clear as day that I read this somewhere.

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Re:Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment by pigscantfly on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:07PM (#20861177)

I'm sorry, but that's simply not true. Technically, ice water consumes calories, but even raw celery only takes 8% of its caloric content to digest; you should research thermic effect if you're interested to know more.

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