I don't understand the difference in between, let's say 100 calories of coconut oil, wich is 100% fat, and a banana, wich is like ...3% fat or so?

My cummun sense tells me that the banana must be better for me...

But is there really a difference, 100 calories is 100 calories, no? no matter if its from carbs or fat?

And how does it react in thebody? Does eating more fat makes you fatter? (for the same amount of calories)

Here's the difference - the 100 calories of coconut oil contains almost no nutrition outside of the fat. The banana on the other hand, has carbohydrates, protein, fiber, water, and phytonutrients in addition to the energy it provides.

Coconut oil - empty calories (essentially junk food)
Banana - nutritious calories (a super food)

Which do you want?

the superfood!! haha

Does one make you store more fat?

Mira,

I started to reply to this but I wrote something very recently that may help you and I was too lazy to type the whole thought out again. So if you feel like reading, here ya go:

[www.goingbananasblog.com]

IMO, calories from carbs, fat and protein are quite different from each other.

Sarah
[goingbananasblog.com]

Mira, as a rough approximation, a gram of fat has 9 calories, a gram of protein 4, and a gram of carbohydrate, 4.

But that's really not the 100% truth. It's just an approximation, a good one for standard diets, too. Not so good for people who eat whole food plant-based diets, though.

If the food has a lot of fiber, there will be a less metabolizable energy from it. And if the food is devoid of fiber, more. There were some papers about this, you could google for Atwater correction factors or Atwater energy equivalents. And even his ideas were a little bit off. Where there is fiber there will be less energy yield.

It's a good idea to get most of your calories from the lower fat whole foods because they will provide a bigger vitamin/mineral/protective phytochemical punch per calorie.

In addition to this, it takes more energy to process a protein calorie than a carbohydrate calorie than a fat calorie. One reason why they say "fats make you fat."

Don't make me give up coconut oil! I won't do it!!!

oh rufio, i understand you so well!!!!!!!!

what do u want from the fat?

a marathon runner may have a different goal than someone else

at any rate, any oil that is commercially extracted is questionable to me

i've had coconut oil and it seems like the only two times i've got it

it gave me a stomach ache

and i NEVER get stomach aches

so, my guess was that it was probably rancid

if i were to go with an overt dense fat, i would pick avocadoes

when you open it, you can AUTOMATICALLY see whether it is fresh or rancid

cuz if it is rancid, u see those blotchy brown marks in it and u can see it is spoiled


not true with oils

it could be rancid, and you won't know it until you get a stomach ache

Sparkler, I've read your article on the subject, wich is very interesting!

I certainly prefer eating high carbs rather than high fat...

And thank you Arugula,i always love your answers

la_veronique

coconut oil may cause stomach aches at first when you take it.

I had a kind die off effet when istarted using it, but it went away in a couple of weeks...

I doubt the oil you used was rancid, coconut oil is the most stable of all oils. It is even recommanded for cooking because of its high smoking level.