Digesting Calories?! :/

Alrighty, so lets say i eat peanuts for a snack, and then 2 hours later its time to digest, do i digest calories or not?

You cannot digest calories as they are not solids that go through your intestines and stomach. Calories are extracted from the food you eat and things you drink, and calories you dont need are converted to fat.

Yep. ^^

I'm a little confused by your question, tbh. As soon as food enters your mouth it is being digested. Then it continues to be digested as it passes through your body.

so essentially, when you chew, the saliva mixes with your food and chewing starts breaking the peanuts down into smaller pieces ~ this starts the digestion process.

when you swallow, the food goes down your esophagus and lands in the tummy where it mixes with bile acids (from the gall bladder and tummy) that help to break the food down into fine particles so it can pass from the tummy into the small intestine... this can take awhile.

once it moves into the small intestine, the nutrients and stuff your body can use starts to be converted into glucose (blood sugar) and is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine and into your blood where it is carried to all of the cells in your body.  the extra nutrition your body can use but that is not needed for immediate energy is stored as fat.

the stuff you body can not use, like insoluble fiber and waste, moves on through your intestines and is kicked out of the body through the large intestines and finally the colon.

for some reason... simple carbohydrates that are refined and have had the fiber removed; like sugar and white flour and juice are digested the quickest.

complex carbohydrates that still have the fiber (plant foods like fruit and veggies and grains) take longer to digest.

protein like meat takes even longer

fat takes the longest to digest.

something like peanuts have protein, a little carbohydrate and some of the heart healthy fat in them... so it is one of the foods that take longer to digest and will make you feel full longer and therefore help keep you satisfied longer :)

Hope this helps :)

cheers,

Thanks, i never new that, so basicly we digest fat but it takes alot longer?

It takes Fat the longest amount of time to digest, yes, protein the second longest amount of time and carbs are digestested pretty quickly.

umm....People don't digest calories. They digest food, which gives nutrients/energy. A calorie is a unit of measurement for food- I think the energy required to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius. Hope this helps! ^^;;

err phoenix... there are two sorts of calories: gram calories and kilogram calories. You've just described a gram calories. The sort of calorie used for measuring food energy is the kilogram calorie: it's the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water one degree Celsius (or Kelvin, same thing). It's a silly non-standard sort of metric measurement. The Canadian government tried to get everyone to use kilojoules but nobody was buying. The Canadian government likes standard metric, the public doesn't.

a gram of carbohydrates or protein each has 4 calories and various nutrients you need and a gram of fat has 9 calories and other nutrients you need.   the body takes the nutrients from the food and uses it to feed your cells so you will have the energy you need... or something like that.

eat a variety of all kinds and colors of foods to get the best assortment of nutrients, minerals and all the stuff you need to be the healthiest possible.