Video: What happens when you drink 10 Cokes a day for a month? - Telegraph
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telegraph.co.ukPosted Dec 2, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC
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telegraph.co.ukThe answer is diabetes.
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Dude's looking great for 50.
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The guy who did this is looking for media attention to promote his "BBQ Diet" ebook. He has some bullshit on his site about vaguely following a paleo diet and not counting calories or anything like that. He gained 21 lbs in 30 days by consuming an excess of at least 1400 calories/day in Coca-Cola. According to his home bioimpedance scale, he gained 13.4 lbs of fat, which is right in line with the expected amount for that calorie surplus. His fasting glucose either stayed the same or went down, and his blood pressure was measured with a home cuff unit so it's pretty meaningless.
On Facebook he says he lost 5 lbs within three days of quitting the Coke. Basically he overate for 30 days, gained some fat and a bunch of water weight, and he's spinning it as some woo woo nonsense about insulin and fat storage as a personal promotion. Big deal.
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It's yet another entry in the long running "if you just cut out this one food/nutrient from your diet you can eat as many calories as you want and not gain weight" saga.
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Pretty much. He gained 8 lbs of fat free mass on that diet in a month. Dem gainz!
His starting cholesterol and BP are nothing to be proud of, with the exception of his HDL. 112 is pretty spectacular.
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Why does he say "it's not the calories, it's the insulin" ?
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Because it's popular bullshit?
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That dude may look like a shitlord, but that sounds a lot like fatlogic to me.
"... my insulin levels have been higher, my fat cells have been queued to store fat.. it's not the additional calories from the cokes, it's cuz I'm storing fat because I have a raised insulin level."
So, one can of coke has 140 kcal, that's an additional 1400 kcal a day, for 30 days, divide by 3500 gives you 12 pounds. He apparently gained 24 pounds, so all that coke must have caused him to eat even more than he normally does. Maybe my bullshit detector is broken and there is something to that whole "zomg storing fat cuz the insulin!" thing, but I doubt it.
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so all that coke must have caused him to eat even more than he normally does.
Not necessarily, coke is pretty high in sodium, could very well be that a lot of that is water weight too.
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A can of coke has 35 milligrams of sodium. That's not a lot (at least compared to some other prepared foods that have over a thousand milligrams).
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Yeah but people don't count it, like they don't count the calories, nor do you "taste" the salt in it.
and 10 cans of coke a day adds another 35mg of salt, so that's another 350mg of salt he took in in a day, plus whatever other salt he got from his diet.
The CDC recommends no more than 2.3g of sodium a day, or roughly 5% of is daily salt intake.
Again, it's the added amount that matters here.
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Insulin prevents fatty acid mobilisation and signals cell receptors to absorb more glycogen (causing fat gain).
If he's eating close to maintenance but with a very high insulin load, he'll gain more body fat than if he was eating something with less of an insulin response at the same calories.
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Your "Eating at maintenance" but "gain body fat" statement essentially rejects the theory of calories in calories out since at maintenance you wouldn't gain body fat.
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If he's eating close to maintenance
No one really knows their maintenance. It's impossible to get it completely accurate.
Calories in versus calories out is the tl;dr of body weight. It doesn't say anything about body composition because it doesn't take into account the role of different nutrients.
Body fat and muscle mass are aspects of body composition. You can't alter these just by following calories. It is entirely possible to gain body fat while staying the same weight.
If you want to do an experiment, eat your entire day's worth of calories in 1 meal of carbohydrates per day for a month. If you don't die you'll see a huge gain in body fat but you won't gain or lose any/much weight if you eat at maintenance.
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The core concept of the theory is "eat 3500 calories in excess and gain 1lb of body fat, burn 3500 extra calories and lose 1lb of body fat" If he's eating 3500 calories in excess, it's assumed he's gaining that much body fat equivalent to an excess of 3500 calories. You're saying that a person, even when they're eating at true maintenance, can still gain body fat because of insulin, when theoretically he shouldn't be because theoretically he's breaking even. That directly contradicts calories in calories out. (fat gets stored and released all the time.. i'm talking about additional body fat added which is what you're implying.
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the sugahs triggered muh fat cells to lower mah bmr by 1200kcal a day
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3.33L.
Plenty of fatties out there that will horse 4L+ a day.
Fuck sake.
I don't know if I should be depressed or impressed at how people don't stop to think about all those calories.
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Soda is some ass.
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Wow. That was pretty useless. He looked pretty much the same. All it was was him complaining. "Wow. 14 days of drinking coke. I don't like drinking coke. Yup. That's a lot of coke. Wow. Yup. Too much coke."
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Well 5000 calories of anything daily will make you fat...that's an important fact these kinds of articles often leave out.
Of course they will, but how many people will look at this and say: eh, I drink that (or something like that).
A can is 330ml, so 10 would be 3.3 litres. There are people out there who clearly drink close that amount without ever once thinking about the calories they're guzzling.
Yeah I get the Coke thing because people are notoriously horrible at counting liquid calories.
I just don't like the way the article described the McDonalds diet as if the guy got fat only because it was McDonalds. It wasn't, it was the 5000 cals/day.
Problem is if you want a message to stick you need it simple. And saying: "The cokes made me fat" will have much more impact than saying: "The additional 5000kCal I took in with the cokes made me fat".
Exactly. People will think coke is OK so long as they don't drink in vast quantities.
That sounds physically painful.
I guess that's what hamplanets say when they hear about other people's workouts.
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