So I’m trying to get fit — I’m already fit but trying to optimize it, you know? But generally had never looked into food and stuff.
Most nights I make a concoction of rice and ground turkey. Today the ratio was 1.5 lbs of ground turkey to 2 cups of (unboiled) white rice, which obviously expands to about 3 times it’s volume, so equivalently was 6 cups of rice. I didn’t eat all of this in one sitting, but it’s good for about 2 dinners for me.
I was reading about calories, and the rice has a lot of calories while the turkey somehow has very little. But then the rice is also a carbohydrate? I know these things fundamentally, but now I’m at the point of trying to understand and apply that knowledge.
Can someone what these things are?
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Calories are energy cells (glucose and ketones), carbs and fat provide higher energy cells for the same mass than protein cause protein need extra steps to be converted into energy cells and is anyway mostly used by the body to replace/create old bodycells.
The only type of energy cells that can be stored as fat in our body are carbs (glucose). Fat that we eat cannot be stored efficiently compared to carbs. Fat that is used by the body as energy cells are directly converted into ketones, otherwise fat is then used for some kind of essential cells creation (lots of hormones, & many specific bodycells).
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