RE: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise

From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 12:43:29 MDT

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    Brian Atkins wrote:

    > P.S. For those who say calories are calories are calories

    (that would be me, for one)

    > two things: 1) it has been shown that your GI tract can absorb fully
    > 100% of the protein and carbs you eat, but only can absorb fats at the
    > rate of around 12 to 15 grams per hour. So there is a limit to how many
    > fat calories you can absorb in a given time.

    Cool! That's a good reason for including a tasty amount of fat in the diet,
    long as you also get enough fiber and exercise enough to keep things moving
    along through the GI tract at a rapid clip.

    Barbara

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