calories from carbs

[karde]

What is a good general rule for guessing how many calaories are in a gram of carbs?

Also how many calories in a gram of fat and protien??

 

[Hoffmeister]

4 calories/gram for both carbs and protein.

9 calories/gram of fat.

 

[Par Deus]

What is a good general rule for guessing how many calaories are in a gram of carbs?

Also how many calories in a gram of fat and protien??

How does one have 600+ posts and not know that??

 

[Stryc-9]

Indeed Par Deus - I was wondering the same thing...

...perhaps karde devotes the majority of his time on Elite to the Chat Board....

Another indication that a lot of posts (or "stars", or "karma") doesn't mean that you're dealing with a genius...

 

[The mann]

hoffmeister got it......

 

[karde]

hoffmeister: thanks

Others:thanks for the smart ass comments, my posts are pretty spread out around the board. I hadn't started keeping numerical logs of my diet until recently, so I never needed to know this info before.

As far as "genius" goes, it's a description of aptitude not knowlege smart guy.

 

[anthrax]

4 calories/gram for both carbs and protein.

9 calories/gram of fat.

and 7 calories/gram of alcohol !

 

[Stryc-9]

Karde - sorry, didn't mean to imply that you were ignorant...

...that came across wrong. I'm sure your aptitude is very impressive!!

(p.s. you spelled "knowledge" wrong) <----- hehe, not a flame! all in good fun....hope the diet is going well!

 

[Bullit]

Is it 4 or 4.5 per gram?
I coulda sworn I read 4.5/g of carbo or protein.