If a person were to drink human blood, would that be fattening? Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 06:33, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- At this point I am getting a thirst for drinking troll blood. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 09:34, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- It is a serious, matter of fact question. I am looking for a serious, matter of fact answer. If you find a question offensive for some reason, you obviously do not have to respond to it. Indeed, it is probably better to make no response in such situations. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 09:40, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Please try google before asking further stupid questions here. Example. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 09:51, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Insulting me really serves no purpose. If you don't like the question, don't respond. That should be simple enough, shouldn't it? As for those Google hits, none of them, at a quick look, address the specific question of whether drinking human blood would be fattening. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 09:54, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- See Black pudding#Nutrition. Not about drinking it, but eating it. Seems like it depends on the recipe. HiLo48 (talk) 10:05, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- You Australians have some crazy black pudding recipes. Most other places use pork blood for their black pudding although some may use sheep or cow blood. Various other blood sausages exist but human blood sausages is a new one to me. (Discounting vampire fiction.) Nil Einne (talk) 10:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Are we sure Mrs. Lovett never made sausages instead of pies? HiLo48 (talk) 10:50, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- As I have previously responded the level to which any food is fattening depends on how much you consume compared with the amount of effort used to burn the consumed calories (this is only part ot the complex problem of obesity) See Blood as food. Where would you propose to obtain the human blood, or is this a hypothetical question? Richard Avery (talk) 15:36, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- The question is, of course, entirely hypothetical. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 23:30, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- (Singing) Use HiLo48, if you must watch your weight! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:08, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- (e/c) These questions are pointless, not because any one of them are "stupid" but because you don't seem to be getting the gist of the answer: NOTHING in and of itself can just be called fattening or healthful or thinning or good for reducing belly fat or any of the other tiresome variations you've raised. The dose makes the poison and no one eating event is going to change your body's fat content appreciably. You need to consider the entire diet, the body of the consumer, their level of exercise, their general fitness and metabolism, and other things. Matt Deres (talk) 15:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- You have a point, but it still serves some purpose to ask whether a given food or substance would be fattening. If necessary, interpret the question, "is x fattening?" to mean, "If a person consumes x on a regular basis, would that be fattening?" Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 23:04, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- What would be an average serving size? Bus stop (talk) 23:52, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Irrelevant. I am simply noting that even if there is no food or substance that is automatically fattening in every situation, it is still legitimate to speak of a given food or substance as having a tendency to be fattening, hence the point of the questions I've been asking. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 00:13, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- That's a valid point. My guess would be human blood would be similar to blood of some of the other creatures we eat. One exception might be Horseshoe crabs, which use Hemocyanin to carry oxygen instead of Hemoglobin, as used by humans. Would this be cooked or uncooked human blood? We also have to be concerned with blood-borne disease—"Since it is difficult to determine what pathogens any given sample of blood contains, and some bloodborne diseases are lethal, standard medical practice regards all blood (and any body fluid) as potentially infectious." Bus stop (talk) 00:22, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- No, the serving size is very relevant. If I eat 1 g of chocolate every day, the impact on my weight would be very different from what it would be if I ate 1 kg of chocolate every day. "On a regular basis" is also vague to the point of uselessness. Once every 10 years and every 10 minutes are both "on a regular basis". --Khajidha (talk) 14:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- What I had in mind by "on a regular basis" was daily. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 22:46, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- 1) Then say so. We can't read your mind. 2) The portion size would still be important. If I eat one potato chip every day that is different from eating one snack size pack of potato chips every day. Let alone eating one family sized pack of potato chips every day. For what seems to be the millionth time, how much of a food is eaten and how often it is eaten and how active the consumer is are much more important to your health and weight than what food is eaten. --Khajidha (talk) 15:26, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- For portion size, let's say, sufficient to satisfy the sort of hunger a person is likely to feel on waking up early in the morning, after having had three meals sufficient to meet normal physical needs the previous day. That's quite specific. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 01:53, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- You would still have to account for whatever else the person ate that day. And for their activity level. And for their personal metabolic rate. There simply is no way to say if a particular food is "fattening" in an absolute sense. --Khajidha (talk) 12:28, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I know. The question, is something fattening, should simply be understood to mean, does it have a tendency to be fattening? I'm not surprised that no one has been really been able to answer my question whether this would be true of human blood, and perhaps this whole discussion should be archived. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 22:24, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Just call him Drac. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:12, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Please, I already noted the question was entirely hypothetical. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 04:32, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Whatever you say, Drac. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:45, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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