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Schrodinger’s Calories

Please clear something up regarding physics and me eating. If I eat stuff, wouldn’t that simultaneously be counted as caloric intake and not caloric intake as a result of the calories’ fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur? In other words, if I eat a cat, does that break my fast?

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Answer

Yes

If you consume calories you break a fast. Pretty sure all cats have calories, but if there is a breed that does not have calories then you would be able to eat that cat without breaking your fast.

Answer

Nope. Caloric intake happens once the macronutrients (Carbs, Protein and Fats) have been digested and turned into glycogen, amino acids and fatty acids.

Fiber has calories, because it’s a carbohydrate. But since our body can’t digest it, we don’t absorb any calories from it. We just poop it out. So even though you swallowed it, there’s still no caloric intake because the subatomic event needed to digest it did not occur.

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