I heard that if you don’t eat for a week, and then if you start to eat, your body will store more fat because it thinks that food is getting scarce, therefore fasting is not a reliable way of losing weight.
But if we eat Dietary Fiber vegetables (food that we cannot fully process) instead of literally starving ourselves, then does the body say “oh look, the stomach is full, therefore no need for storing fat” ?
Does this mean that if i make my diet 70% vegetables and 30% soup, will i start to lose weight?
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The human diet is still poorly understood and even nutrition is a very complex topic.
We store calories in excess of those we need to function as fat. We can then convert the day back into sugar when our calorie intake is less than needed for our daily activities.
When we run a significant calorie deficit for an extended period of time out body will consume our fat, and muscle to keep calories for our brain.
The variety of foods you eat is important to avoid malnutrition but it doesn’t matter if it was meat or vegetables, if you are at starvation level intake your body response will be the same.
The mixture of vegetables and meat is not what is critical is the calorie content. There high calorie vegtables avocado is high in fat and thus high in calories.
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