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Title: Do I gain more weight by bingeing, or eating the same amount more slowly?
Post by: Fozzie on 24/12/2009 11:58:08

If I eat a whole block of cheese in one go, will I put on more or less weight that if I eat a small peice of it each day?

Title: Re: Do I gain more weight by bingeing, or eating the same amount more slowly?
Post by: glovesforfoxes on 25/12/2009 00:54:35

I'm going to cautiously say more, since the excess energy gained all in one go is more likely to be stored as fat, whereas it will be used up as a quicker energy source if consumed in small, daily portions.

I'm not sure though.

One thing to bear in mind is that this doesn't happen without influence from other effects; eating other foods, different amount of excercise.. it'd be difficult to conduct a good scientific experiment controlling the other variables to test.

Title: Re: Do I gain more weight by bingeing, or eating the same amount more slowly?
Post by: Geezer on 25/12/2009 02:51:01

Quote from: Fozzie on 24/12/2009 11:58:08

If I eat a whole block of cheese in one go, will I put on more or less weight that if I eat a small peice of it each day?

Definitely more. Cheese is like, well, very "binding" so if you eat a whole block in one go you could be plugged up for quite a while.

Title: Re: Do I gain more weight by bingeing, or eating the same amount more slowly?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 26/12/2009 01:53:41

Reminds me of this chocolatey question: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/questions/question/2198/