Hello all,

LOL. Before you think I'm a sicko or something, just let me start off by saying I saw my little nephew pick his nose and eat it in front of me. Being the LCer I am, I thought to myself "Hmmm, wonder what the carb count in those are?!"

Just wanted to share my thought and tell evidence that PROVES that I am a low-carber 4LIFE!

I'm almost scared to ask, but have any of you thought about this? Read any research on it?

I think the question is....how many carb calories can you burn smackin his hand down from his face each and everytime he does it

Too Funny!

So Funny

gross!!!

Haven't really thought about burgers but I have wondered about other bodily "excretions" during intimate experiences.

And you thought you were gross...lol

LOL; I think size matters on this one. A booger is not a problem for LC but many boogers?? Maybe the Atkins lab should research this. What about eating paste? Your nephew is at high risk for this as well if he is in the eating boogers phase.

Melissa

You should be ashamed of yourself. Did you not think that he could also be consuming snot????? That must have a carb count too!!!!!




Charlie Girl

"Deep Thoughts" by Toddzilla

Eeuuwwwww....You guys are sicko's .....Yuk!

Paste is made from Flour [HIGH CARB] if I remember correctly. I used to eat it in Kindergarten.

lol. I knew this wold get a reaction. Now, I know some other male "fluids" does have protein in it, so drink up!

As for eating part of your own body, I wouldn't worry too much about the Caloric/Carb contribution. For example, if you chew your nails, I'd think the body would expend at least as many Carbs/Calories [if there are any in nails] regrowing them as it would get from them. About the only thing we know how many Carbs there are in is Blood:

Carbs per Liter (g) = Blood Glucose (mg/dL) divided by 100
Fat per Liter (g) = Triglycerides (mg/dL) divided by 100

So, if your BG was 84 and Triglycerides 96, 1 Liter of you blood would contain 0.84g of Carbs and 0.96g of Fat. There's about 4 cups in a Liter if I remember correctly. 1 cup is the average serving size for a Beverage. So, 1 cup of LCers BLood would have 0.21g of Carbs and 0.24g of Fat. Not sure about the Protein content, though. Since Blood is virtually Non-Caloric [figuring about the same amount of Protein as Fat and Carbs, that would be < 4 kcal per cup,] I would expect most other Bodily fluids to be nearly Non-Caloric [very low in carbs] also.

Of course, if you're one of those LF folks who have BG of 200+, your fluids might not be as low in Carbs. For a person with a BG of 200, 1 cup of Blood would have 0.5g of Carbs. Figure TGs of 500, and there'd also be 1.25g of Fat. That works out to about 14 kcal per cup vs. 4 kcal per cup of LCers Blood. I'm not sure if that would also make other fluids high in Carbs/Calories. But, I read somewhere an Uncontrolled Diabetics urine attracts Ants, because it contains significant amounts of Sugar.

Interestingly, Blood would be high in Cholesterol whether your's is high or not. Figure that 175 mg/dL equates to 1,750mg per L or about 440mg per cup, about the same as 2 Large Eggs. If your Cholesterol is high...say 350 mg/dL, that would double th amount of Cholesterol per cup. So, you'd have 880mg of Cholesterol per cup, or almost the equivelant of 4 Large Eggs. That would mean Blood is certainly off limits for a LF Diet, especially since there's is probably very high in Fat [Triglycerides] and Cholesterol.

Smack your kid for eating his boogers? In public maybe.

Kinda funny, but kids that eat their boogers are ~15% less likely to get sick. The bacteria/virus that get caught in your nose are usually dead or very weak. Picking your nose and eating it is like taking miniature flu shots. Its still a nasty habit, but maybe we shouldn't smack our kids for doing something that's quite natural and actually does them some good