One thing that the recent Taubes meltdown at AHS has done is elicit the reappearance of the LC Kindergarten Cop in comments sections far and wide. Yes, I'm talking about the hopelessly mired in parroting LC dogma Fred Hahn. He's pulling back out the "teaspoon of sugar" schtick to proclaim that carb consumption is evil. It just so happens I had addressed this in a recent post: Let's play Concentration!
In that post I did the calculations on the circulating levels of the form of fat we burn at any given time. For a normal person, this comes out to around 0.5g fat. Using more elevated levels we're still talking at most about 1g fat. Using even a low end density for oils and butter, 0.8 g/ml, we're talking 1.25 ml. What's that in teaspoons? One-quarter of a teaspoon. (One eighth teaspoon for normal individuals, and knocked down to around one thirty-second of a teaspoon after a meal!)
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