We had the discussion about fat and muscle quite some time ago on this thread. What goes round comes around - as they say.Yes, If you have a pound of fat and a pound of muscle, they both weigh a pound. But volume wise you get much more fat to the pound than you do muscle. About 2 handfuls of muscle weigh a pound but 4 handfuls of fat weigh a pound. So volume wise it does weigh more. I think that's what people mean when they say that.
SCIENTIFIC FACT: By VOLUME, muscle does weight more than fat.
DENSITY - Muscle density is 1.06 g/ml and fat density is approx. 0.9 g/ml. Thus, one litre of muscle would weight 1.06 kg and one litre of fat would weight 0.9 kg.
In other words, muscle is about 18% more dense than fat.
Oops, didn't read this before I replied! Just saw the bit about toast and laughed ? x so it's pretty much the same as what I said
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We had the discussion about fat and muscle quite some time ago on this thread. What goes round comes around - as they say.
It's all to do with volume and density - and I don't mean in the brain!
The volume isn't quite as much as what you've quoted above.
A pound of Iron and a pound of feathers DO weigh the same. Weight or rather mass, is how MUCH of something there is in grams or kilograms. However a pound of iron occupies much less space than a pound of feathers, by VOLUME (the amount of space something takes up0, a lb of feathers is much bigger. This is because feathers are less dense (so each feather weighs less per cubic centimeter).
It is the same with fat and muscle. Fat is like the feathers and muscle is like the lead.
Ha ha! This made me chuckle! A piece of bread cannot physically increase in calories! Maybe it's to do with the mass of the bread decreasing when it's toasted!! How bizarre!! Lol
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My consultant says if you are going to eat a banana on toast, then you can mash the banana on the toast but if you were to mash the banana in a smoothie with strawberries then you would get more fruit than you would normally sit down and eat (she has never seen me eat a kilo of strawberries lol).
Hope that is helpful.
This is something I sort of disagree with to some extent - I really like apple puree with sweetner (by stewing a cooking apple on the hob) - I wouldnt syn this whereas I know strictly speaking I should.
As fruit is a free food you could eat 5 apples a day if you wanted to and nobody can stop you but if you stew the 5 apples and eat them you have to syn them...
the only explanation I've been given by the SW consultant is that you would typically eat more puree or mashed up fruit... not sure if that's a robust enough answer for me!
If you take a slice of bread and toast it, the two will have the same amount of calories.
However, a slice of toast weighs less than a slice of bread as you will have evaporated some of the water content in the toasting process - toast is lighter than bread. So weight for weight, toast does have more calories than fresh bread.
But that is not because it has "gained" calories.
It's also do do with volume. It is extremely easy to eat 4 stewed apples as they shrink so much. But try eating 4 whole apples in one go!Hmm well I've heard that scientifically, the reason why fruit is free and mashed/puréed is not, is that in a whole piece of fruit it takes the body the same or more calories to break down and digest the roughage than it does in liquidised form (obviously)
Imagine how much easier it is for your body to absorb all the nutrients of puréed food, without working to digest all the solid pieces.
Anyway the way I look at it is a smoothie now and again doesn't do me any harm.
Shrimpy you are so right - there is no way toasting can start the chemical reaction.How would toasting it turn the starch (a polymer of glucose) into glucose?! We use an enzyme in our mouth and small intestine to do this.
The density is the only logical answer.
I need to find the answer to the toast debate...its bugging me, lol.
I went online and googled and found this report on toast, lol.
Does Toasting Bread Change Its Nutritional Value? | LIVESTRONG.COM
Is that pic of the lb of fat for real? is that a really tiny mug its next too.
Another thing Why can you mush up and cook toms but are synd if you do same to an apple, they are both fruit technically