Looking back over your post, you said:
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It literally signals your body to wake up or break the fast, like everyone says it gets your motor running.
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I'd be interested in seeing where you're pulling this data from, assuming by motor you mean metabolism.
If that's not what you mean, please forgive my assumption.
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Originally Posted by Cookn  I don't believe that I said the unprocessed food "increases" metabolism, I think I said it starts it. |
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Slimfast is a highly processed product and as such it's very easy for your body to use and thusly requires little from the body and does little to ,shall we say, get the internal fires started.
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I think most would read that to mean processed foods slow metabolism.
Can you show me data on this?
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By that I meant your body starts to work on complex carbohydrates as soon as they enter the body, beginning when you ingest the food with the application of digestive enzymes when you chew and the process continues all the way through you digestive system. When you ingest food, Slimfast in this case, in liquid form, you take vital metabolic operations away from the process of digestion. Most of the reasons complex carbohydrates are so valuable to your system are that the nutrients aren't readily available and the body has to work longer to make the sugars and nutrients available for use. Because of this fact, complex carbs will keep your metabolic system active longer at a higher rate, because it has to work longer to get the things it needs, processed. With complex carbohydrates much of the digestion process in done in the small intestine rather than the stomach. In liquid form, you take much of the bodies workload away because you decrease the amount of work required to get what it needs from the food. You've ingested the food in an almost ready to use form, much less metabolic action required to use the sugars and nutrients.
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I'd be interested in hearing what you believe this to net to in terms of energetic costs.
I personally believe you are splitting hairs here but I'll wait to see your data.
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I can throw together a breakfast of complex carbs, in about as much time as it takes to open a can of Slimfast, and I feel a whole bunch better 2 hours down the road.
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I would agree.
I'm not making this out to be processed vs. unprocessed.
I solely interested in your data pertaining to metabolic rate changes in response to time of feeding and type of feeding in terms of CHO.
