And Now For Some Science!

Today I spent an hour and a half talking to people about what needs to be done on everybody's end, and then did my actual work in twenty minutes. This is called "Corporate America."

I spent the rest of the day finishing up my eight-page essay on fats. You'll get a bit each day for seven days. It's time for biochemistry, but don't let the big words scare you. If you can count to eight, you can do this. I wrote this mostly because I’m annoyed at constantly seeing diets that break the two laws of fat:

1. A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. It doesn’t matter where it comes from, calories are all the same. This is because a calorie is not a physical thing. It’s a unit of energy, equal to the amount of energy it takes to raise one liter of water one degree Centigrade. I’ll talk more about this in a bit.
2. Calories consumed in a day minus calories used in a day equals net calorie gain or loss. The only way to get rid of a calorie, once you’ve eaten it, is to use it. That’s it. Unless you go in for liposuction, but that’s really not healthy because it doesn’t just remove the fat, it removes a huge whomping lump of cells.

Once you understand these two laws, inside and out, you can, maybe, begin to bend them. But Do Not Play Silly Buggers with The Laws of Physics. It doesn’t work. Often, it doesn’t work so badly that you end up a) looking silly, b) dead, or c) both.

( Part One - Food )

Next bit tomorrow. Feel free to ask me any questions :)