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0 pointstpoacher3y ago0 comments

> I find protein and fat way more satiating than, well, anything else. For example, eat 2 eggs for breakfast and I guarantee you won't even think a out food again until lunch time, if not dinner time.

That's not what satiety means (at least in this context), right?

I'm reading OP's definition as "you'll eat less [calories] per sitting because you'll feel satiated more quickly", rather than your "your feeling of non-hunger will last longer".

The two seem pretty orthogonal definitions to me.

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monktastic13y ago

One is "given the same calories, you'll be full longer." The other is "given fewer calories, you'll be full for as long." Surely those aren't orthogonal?

yellowapple3y ago

That seems like it'd be the definition of orthogonal; "length of fullness" and "caloric input" are separate variables, and each of those statements entails altering one of those variables independently from the other.

monktastic13y ago

The definitions don't make reference to any particular food. And holding the food constant, presumably "length of fullness" and "caloric input" are strongly correlated, right? So if one of those statements is true, the other is very likely to be true. I would expect "orthogonal" to mean that there is no relationship between their truth values.

What am I missing?

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0 pointstpoacher3y ago0 comments

That's not what satiety means (at least in this context), right?

I'm reading OP's definition as "you'll eat less [calories] per sitting because you'll feel satiated more quickly", rather than your "your feeling of non-hunger will last longer".

The two seem pretty orthogonal definitions to me.

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monktastic13y ago

One is "given the same calories, you'll be full longer." The other is "given fewer calories, you'll be full for as long." Surely those aren't orthogonal?

yellowapple3y ago

monktastic13y ago

What am I missing?

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