If one was to design a weekly diet plan, ie. where food type is varied throughout the week, but the same amount / type of food is comsumed for each week, and this plan was designed to average 2000 calories/day, would it be reasonable to assume that as long as ~ 14,000 calories are consumed per week, it doesn't really matter what food from the plan is eaten on a given day?
Consider the follow as a non-realistic example. Suppose the diet had to consist of burgers, and the only types of burgers available were vegetarian burgers (@ 1000 calories/each) and hamburgers (@ 3000 calories/each). Assuming that the diet plan was designed such that 3.5 of each (on average) are consumed each week, this would allow for a 14,000 calorie / week diet. Intuitively, it would seem better to eat half of each burger each day of the week so as to maintain exactly 2000 calories/day, but would it also be ok to instead eat a full vege one day, meat the next, and so on since the long term affects would average out?
Thanks.
~bex0rs
Consider the follow as a non-realistic example. Suppose the diet had to consist of burgers, and the only types of burgers available were vegetarian burgers (@ 1000 calories/each) and hamburgers (@ 3000 calories/each). Assuming that the diet plan was designed such that 3.5 of each (on average) are consumed each week, this would allow for a 14,000 calorie / week diet. Intuitively, it would seem better to eat half of each burger each day of the week so as to maintain exactly 2000 calories/day, but would it also be ok to instead eat a full vege one day, meat the next, and so on since the long term affects would average out?
Thanks.
~bex0rs
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