Hi Jeff
First I want to say that I have learned so much since this forum began. Thanks to everyone for asking such good questions and to you Jeff for posting such detailed replies.
I read the following off of the PCRM website about vegetarian diets for weight control:
The body treats carbohydrates differently than fat calories. The difference comes with how the body stores the energy of different food types. It is very inefficient for the body to store the energy of carbohydrates as body fat—it burns 23 percent of the calories of the carbohydrate—but fat is converted easily into body fat. Only 3 percent of the calories in fat are burned in the process of conversion and storage.4 It is the type of food, not so much the quantity, that affects body fat the most.5
http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/weight_control.html
My question is do you know what percentage of calories from protein are burned during the storage process? I was just curious about this.
Thanks