> Anyone know where, who, and when the fallacious concept "Percent
> calories from ***..." started? http://www.ecologos.org/pcf.htm
> How about the "Four Food Groups"?
the website is very badly put together and what is said is not thought
through to the end.
it seems someone wanted to make a statement against nutrition science and
miserably failed so.
as i stated before: the ammount of calories needed a day can be estimated
for a person of given sex, age and bmi. therefore saying "recommendations
are x% of every macronutrient on total energy intake" is not irrational at
all and allows rough comparison of various food patterns to the
macronutrient recommendations.
example#1 (which i will not quote here for better readability) is, excuse
me, total bogus.
if you like to criticize someone's ability in arithmetics you should ask
youself what the difference between relative and absolute numbers is and
what each of these can be used for an what not.
on every food that has nutritional value information on it that i have ever
seen you find the absolute number (the total ammount of calories).
the relative numbers give information about how much the food fits or does
not fit the recommended food composition.
same goes for example#2. relative <> absolute. thus example pretty
pointless.
if you only eat stuff that has 100% fat content you know you won't fit the
recommendation on daily intake for macronutrients.
example#3:
If we have a certain food with, say, 10% of calories as protein, how much of
this food should we eat to get 20 grams of protein?? There is NO way to
calculate this, since the absolute amounts of all nutrients are irreversibly
lost when one goes from true weight percent to "percent of calories from
...."
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how about:
calories of food[per 100g] * 0,1 / 4 kcal/g = xx g Protein[per 100g food]
xxg Protein in 100g equals
20g Protein in ?g
I will leave calculating the ammount of food for 20g protein to you.
by the way: you are aware that weight percent is also a relative number..
right?
if you have food with
50% (w/w) water
10% (w/w) carbohydrates
20% (w/w) protein
15% (w/w) fat
5% (w/w) minerals/ash
with this info you cannot tell how many grams of protein you have either.
you need the weight.