The body passes "bulk" through without change but calories don't behave the same way, empty or not. "Empty" usually refers to calories that don't go for muscle or immediate fuel but are stored as fat.
Even processed sugar, which is one of the common sources for empty calories, gets processed through several cellular reactions, beginning with its being broken down by insulin, and stored if it can't be burned.
If empty caloires passed on through, no one would ever be overweight.
Last edited by SageMother; 02-11-2008 at 11:08 PM.
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