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Re:How food powers your body's metabolism by maxk42 on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:13AM (#33372409)
Forgive me for the incomplete reply, but I looked this up last week and one molecule of fatty acid (in this case DHA soecifically) generates 136 molecules of ATP. This makes fat roughly 2x as energetic (from the standpoint of our bodies' metabolism) as the heat measured from burning it (calories) would suggest. Despite this fact, and the fact that I've been eating roughly 3500 calories per day without exercising, switching to a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has lead me to lose 10 lbs over the past three weeks. Clearly there's a lot more to metabolism than is even documented in this lengthy article.
Re:How food powers your body's metabolism by feet on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:23PM (#33374434)
Fatty acids are used for far more than just energy
Re:How food powers your body's metabolism by freedude on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:41PM (#33378296)
Yes, brain growth and learning/remembering stuff for instance.
Re:How food powers your body's metabolism by feet on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:03PM (#33379082)
I'm talking about specific biochemical mechanisms such as modifying membrane fluidity and getting attached to proteins in post translational modification