At 04:49 PM 3/2/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I recently had a "discussion" at the gym with a person who, upon hearing
that
>someone had binged the night before, told this person that they are okay,
>that the human body is only capible of processing a certain amount of
>calories and the rest are passed out of the body, undigested. I said that
I
>believed that the body will process all calories that it can, but the point
>was interesting.
>
>Does anyone have any insight on what happens if someone eats 1000-2000 or
>even more calories at a sitting. Can the body process that much at one
time,
>or is there a limit? What happens after the limit is passed, and how does
>the body decide where the limit is?

THere is an interesting article on this issue here ..

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/1997/971006.a.htm