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Calories are important and for a healthy diet must be looked at but you also have to take into consideration your sodium, protein, fiber and sugar levels.

I highly doubt you can eat 100 tomato's in one day (your stomache isn't that big (hopefully)), but if you can, then yes, that would be fine. Calories are the amount of energy your body needs to preform all it's daily tasks (digestion, pumping blood, and other bodily functions), plus any other tasks you preform (walking, swimming, ect). If your body needs 2100 calories to preform it's tasks fully, and you need 400 more calories to enable you to work, then you would need 2500 calories total for a day. The problem is if you eat 2600 calories worth of food, then your body has 100 calories it doesn't have anything to do with so your body stores it as fat. That is why when you don't eat enough for a long time, the first thing your body gets rid of is fat because it is burning it for energy.

This should explain a lot:

Ok thank you, you explained it pretty well, can lock it now

That chicken sandwich at KFC with the two chicken pieces as patties, bacon, and three pieces of cheese must have at lest three tousand calories, but it tastes SOOOOOOOOOO goooooooood. All greasy and fatty things taste good that's why I work out so much is due to all the junk I eat. Also no I'm not a red neck fat guy like most alot of people in Kentucky, I'm a city boy from Atlanta, not a hick.

Calories are important and for a healthy diet must be looked at but you also have to take into consideration your sodium, protein, fiber and sugar levels.

If your not concerned with any of that just drink 10 sodas. They are about 250 calories a piece.

an Average tomato is about 25 Calories, does that mean I could eat 100 Tomatoes trough whole day (just example, I know its not healthy to eat same thing for all meals) and be good..

[quote][quote]Calories are important and for a healthy diet must be looked at but you also have to take into consideration your sodium, protein, fiber and sugar levels.

It's not so much the number of calories as what's in the calories you eat. Yeah, those sodas give you 120 a pop, but for what? 40 grams of sugar and carbs. It's something my mom would say "empty calories".

If your not concerned with any of that just drink 10 sodas. They are about 250 calories a piece.

If I were to follow the chain of thought that eating any random food as long as it provides a desired amount of calories is the right way to go..



Since each serving of Oreos is worth 100 calories and a box has six servings, I must eat four boxes of this crap to reach 2400 calories. Woo, 552 g of cookies and 216g of sugar. Cool.

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It's ridiculous to assume that eating a hundred tomatoes a day would keep you running. You will not obtain all the nutrients you need from tomatoes alone. Of course, you want to aim for variety in your diet.

Back to the topic, I was looking around for opinions on the over-consumption of tomatoes. There was no indication of anyone eating a hundred tomatoes a day. Lycopenemia was the most interesting thing I found. Apparently it is a condition where one has an excessive concentration of lycopene in their blood, which causes their skin to turn to this bizarre orange-ish color. I also saw some mentions of indigestion and heartburn.

Anyway, I'd just assume that eating that many tomatoes would bode ill for your body. Consuming too much of anything is bad. That goes for water too.

Just watch out for your teeth dropping out and Type II diabetes down the track.

Apparently I barely get 1500 calories a day, I don't eat any snacks except for strawberries, and I hardly ever eat fast food. During meals I barely have any appetite.

Look on the nutrition information of whatever you eat. It has calories right there.

The soda thing was something of a joke. I have a pretty high metabolism myself. I find a high protein diet works.

Diabetes.. It hurts.

You can't sugarcoat it either.