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Aug. 14th, 2008 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisRe: that article that's making the rounds about the swimmer Michael Phelps' diet while training. And it being something like 12,000 calories a day. It includes a 1000 calorie energy drink (twice a day), supposedly. I began to wonder what that would be like.
Let's do some math. One gram of lipid is 9 calories. That means that 1000 calories would be about 111.11 grams of fat.
If 1 tablespoon of pure oil is 120 calories, that makes each tablespoon about 13.333 grams.
111.11 grams divided by 13.333 grams is about 8 and 1/3 tablespoons.
That's half a cup plus a teaspoon. (Sad that I can do that off the top of my head, innit?)
Can you imagine downing half a cup of oil twice a day? Sure, mixed in with other crap to disguise the taste, but fats deliver the most calories in the smallest package, so the bulk of the calories in this drink would logically stem from emulsified lipid. And who wants to drink a gallon of energy drink a day; so it's probably not cut with very much of said other crap for sheer minimization of guzzling time.
Summation? Blech.
Let's do some math. One gram of lipid is 9 calories. That means that 1000 calories would be about 111.11 grams of fat.
If 1 tablespoon of pure oil is 120 calories, that makes each tablespoon about 13.333 grams.
111.11 grams divided by 13.333 grams is about 8 and 1/3 tablespoons.
That's half a cup plus a teaspoon. (Sad that I can do that off the top of my head, innit?)
Can you imagine downing half a cup of oil twice a day? Sure, mixed in with other crap to disguise the taste, but fats deliver the most calories in the smallest package, so the bulk of the calories in this drink would logically stem from emulsified lipid. And who wants to drink a gallon of energy drink a day; so it's probably not cut with very much of said other crap for sheer minimization of guzzling time.
Summation? Blech.
