all I have to do is look at pizza (well, actually I eat it too) to gain weight...LOL..
2007-11-06 17:11:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I kinda like bamboo shoots cooked in chop suey...
2007-11-06 17:19:20 · update #1
Swimever, You are right...pandas are fat. I feel better already..
2007-11-06 17:20:26 · update #2
Better yet why is it so hard for woman to lose weight and for men its a snap of a finger
2007-11-06 17:14:32 · answer #1 · answered by Jesus_Is_My_Faith 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's the thing about being an herbivore that eats a plant that is mostly undigestible.
You know what bamboo is like, pretty hard, and it's actually very woody. There is no animal on earth that can actually digest wood. True, there are things like termites, but even they have special bacteria in their gut that help them break down the wood (actually this bacteria lives inside another animal which lives inside the termite, another long story).
Anyway, pandas need to eat A LOT of bamboo in order to get the same nutrition you would get in a slice of pizza. To put it more simply, there isn't a lot of calories that a panda can get out of one lousey stick of bamboo and so, to compensate, it must eat a whole lot in order to sustain its metabolism and go on living.
Cows eat lots of hay and so do many other herbivores. Again, this is because the QUALITY of food is low (they get a small amount of energy and nutrition out of what they eat) and so they must eat more. In the case of pandas and others that eat hard, woody plants: quantity not quality (the opposite of what we live by).
2007-11-07 01:34:37 · answer #2 · answered by CNTB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Know how much fibre is in bamboo? If you ate just 4 pounds of bamboo, you would wind up in the hospital because you would have blown your entire colon out!
And, it tastes crappy.
And, pandas are still quite fat.
2007-11-07 01:16:08 · answer #3 · answered by swimeveryday 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bamboo is similar to celery.
You can eat all the celery you want, because it takes more calories to digest it than you actually get from the celery.
2007-11-07 01:42:35 · answer #4 · answered by MagicianTrent 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess the problem is not about looking at pizza, but about what will happen after that!
Just starting changing you eating and living habit, you will feel better about yourself.
2007-11-07 01:17:49 · answer #5 · answered by Bonnie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try bamboo, I guarantee you will lose weight
2007-11-07 01:14:41 · answer #6 · answered by Info_Please 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is that unfair - ever eaten bamboo?
2007-11-07 01:14:11 · answer #7 · answered by Tiger by the Tail 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
metabolism is different
2007-11-07 01:14:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋