@great_depression Awesome work putting this together, thank you for all of the effort. There is a lot of really helpful information here.
One thing I think is a typo or maybe I am misunderstanding when you are discussing TEF:
Doesn’t the Atwater system NOT account for protein’s high TEF? In reading the Wikipedia page on Atwater I don’t see info about TEF.
In Martin Berkhan’s book “The Leangains Method” when discussing the Atwater system in chapter 3 he says that Atwater’s Metabolizable Energy calculations do not factor in TEF.
The article you linked by Lyle doesn’t seem to explicitly state that Atwater doesn’t account for TEF, but that seems to be what he is indicating when he’s talking about TEF.
Am I misunderstanding, misinformed, or did you make a typo?
One thing I think is a typo or maybe I am misunderstanding when you are discussing TEF:
Protein is just one example. It happens with every macro to some extent. However, it should be noted that this IS accounted for on nutrition labels and the Atwater system takes this into account.
Doesn’t the Atwater system NOT account for protein’s high TEF? In reading the Wikipedia page on Atwater I don’t see info about TEF.
In Martin Berkhan’s book “The Leangains Method” when discussing the Atwater system in chapter 3 he says that Atwater’s Metabolizable Energy calculations do not factor in TEF.
The article you linked by Lyle doesn’t seem to explicitly state that Atwater doesn’t account for TEF, but that seems to be what he is indicating when he’s talking about TEF.
Am I misunderstanding, misinformed, or did you make a typo?