• woop_woop@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Fair enough. And I’ll give you the vs fat part. It was unfair for me to say anyway - what was in my head when I said it was that a pound of fat is considered worth 3500 kcal, which is more energy than most things in a body. It was a shit argument that mixed points.

    Overall, I think my issue is just with the simple statement that “muscles are inefficient”.

    The way I interpreted that statement is that “muscles waste energy”, since that’s all the context I could get from those words. I see muscles as super efficient, just like anything else in the body in that they do as little as possible compared to what is demanded. I view that type of laziness as ultimate efficiency.

    Through the rest of the thread I got little additional context, so I kept on keeping on.

    I still think the op of this thread didn’t get his point across very well

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Yeah it’s a funny thing.

      Efficiency has multiple meanings for a living body, and a goal. (Is the goal to survive, is the goal to be strong, etc)