Is it possible for a person who eats one pound of pure fat (while
eating nothing else all day) to gain any more than one pound in
weight?
I remember in high school physics mater can't be created or destroyed
it can only change shape. so to me it seems logical to conclude that
one pound of fat eaten will result in a max of one pound of weight
gained.

Gee, that's a good question. A pound of fat is many more calories than a
pound of meat or a pound of carbohydrates. Fat in food form will be used for
energy and some of it will convert to fat on the body, combined with
water...so it is not impossible that you could gain weight in excess of a
pound a day. Are you planning to try this? If so, I'd love to hear your
results! Although it may not be the brightest move!

No, not really
I just watched that documentry called Supersize Me about that guy who
ate mcdonalds food for a whole month and it almost kiled his liver.

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:58:41 GMT, "Kay" <eksepan@earthlink.net> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:58:41 GMT, "Kay" <eksepan@earthlink.net> wrote:

eats.

A person who eats one pound of fat locked in a steel room can't gain
more weight than one pound.

Well, not having any water will kill a person faster than eating fat will.
We are more water than anything else. Yeah, fat would be really bad on the
liver, and it isn't all that great for the heart. The brain requires some
fat. McDonald's, huh? It isn't all bad. I mean, a person COULD skip the
french fries!

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:46:06 -0600, chill@will.com wrote (in article
<5c96t0pntbfdrvtgics89edieclgf1f7nj@4ax.com>):

That "Supersize Me" thing is an example of irresponsibility at its worst.
They just as well could have had the guy eat all of the wrong things at a
health food store for a month and then blame it on the store.

-- James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

ya, but mcdonalds is all wrong things.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:00:10 GMT, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com>
wrote:

i was just using that whole steel room as an example.
If you remember high school chemistry, one big lesson was matter can't
be created or destroyed, just change form. this lesson leads me to
believe that no matter what you eat you won't gain more weight than
the weight of your food.


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:37:00 GMT, "Kay" <eksepan@earthlink.net> wrote:

Chillawill,
Don't forget that you are what you drink, also. Water added to fat is a
lot more weight.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:43:53 -0600, chill@will.com wrote
(in article <e5q8t0509aj82h57oq26qtih2gq1suna7d@4ax.com>):

I agree that McDonalds sells primarily a menu of, as you say, "wrong things",
but if one can also eat quite healthfully at McDonalds, salads and such, if
one takes care in ordering. Nobody is forced to eat at McDonalds, so blaming
one's own failings in terms of eating on McDonalds is just, to me, another
example of "it's always someone else's fault!"

-- James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft