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OK, if I remember this group correctly, this is going to generate some
hostile reaction, so let me say from the outset that I make no comment, only
pass along the article. On page 14 of Discover Magazine, Jan. 2005,
delivered to my home today is a blurb in the R&D section entitled "The
Physics of Atkins"
"A calorie is a calorie, no matter the source-right? Wrong, "
They site biochemist Richard Feinman and Eugene Fin of SUNY Downstate
Medical Center in New York. "critics of low carb diets always invoke the
laws of thermodynamics, but they are not understanding them properly"
Feinman "argues that two laws not one are involved. Detractors of the Atkins
Diet often emphasize the first law of thermodynamics, that the total energy
in a system is always conserved. Deinman considers the secon law-that energy
tends to dissipateat over time-just as important. It determines what happens
to the energy in food when it is broken down in the body. 'We know ton a
molecular level that the body's pathways are less efficient at turning
protiein caleries into glucose,' he says 'That means that more energy is
lost as heat.'
Note that "Feinman emphasizes that his arguement is solely rooted in
physics." and does not consider any other health effects.
let the yelling begin.....
Bob
hostile reaction, so let me say from the outset that I make no comment, only
pass along the article. On page 14 of Discover Magazine, Jan. 2005,
delivered to my home today is a blurb in the R&D section entitled "The
Physics of Atkins"
"A calorie is a calorie, no matter the source-right? Wrong, "
They site biochemist Richard Feinman and Eugene Fin of SUNY Downstate
Medical Center in New York. "critics of low carb diets always invoke the
laws of thermodynamics, but they are not understanding them properly"
Feinman "argues that two laws not one are involved. Detractors of the Atkins
Diet often emphasize the first law of thermodynamics, that the total energy
in a system is always conserved. Deinman considers the secon law-that energy
tends to dissipateat over time-just as important. It determines what happens
to the energy in food when it is broken down in the body. 'We know ton a
molecular level that the body's pathways are less efficient at turning
protiein caleries into glucose,' he says 'That means that more energy is
lost as heat.'
Note that "Feinman emphasizes that his arguement is solely rooted in
physics." and does not consider any other health effects.
let the yelling begin.....
Bob