If the carbon input to your body exceeds the carbon output, you will get fat. The metabolic rate, a confounding factor when trying to count calories, does not affect the carbon balance.
There is data but not consumer-grade. I think there is an opportunity for future app developers. It is relatively easyand accurate to predict how much CO2 is expelled every day by monitoring the heart beat and breathing rate. Combined with foodstuff carbon content tables, this would be a better dietary app because it would not depend on one's metabolical rate (i.e. energy conversion efficiency). Having said this, I have just read an article on Ozempic(a semaglutide-based appetite suppressant) taking the world by storm (including even China). Provided there are no serious side effects, obesity soon may be a thing of the past.
Another good blog from Hal, thank you. I agree with your approach, but it is hard to find Carbon content in food. I would have thought that kJ/calorie content was a good analog to Carbon but there are sources which clearly indicate meats are much higher at least in terms of CO2 output /kg than veges. Does someone have a reliable table on carbon content for food?
How I wish I could have read this blog two years earlier, when I began to lose weight and control diet.
There is data but not consumer-grade. I think there is an opportunity for future app developers. It is relatively easyand accurate to predict how much CO2 is expelled every day by monitoring the heart beat and breathing rate. Combined with foodstuff carbon content tables, this would be a better dietary app because it would not depend on one's metabolical rate (i.e. energy conversion efficiency). Having said this, I have just read an article on Ozempic(a semaglutide-based appetite suppressant) taking the world by storm (including even China). Provided there are no serious side effects, obesity soon may be a thing of the past.
Another good blog from Hal, thank you. I agree with your approach, but it is hard to find Carbon content in food. I would have thought that kJ/calorie content was a good analog to Carbon but there are sources which clearly indicate meats are much higher at least in terms of CO2 output /kg than veges. Does someone have a reliable table on carbon content for food?