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No sugar. No grains. No processed foods
I ate sugar every day as a kid in the 50s. I got chubby by age 12 but then it all went into 6’1”of height. We played outside every day after school. It wasn’t our choice necessarily. If it wasn’t pouring out we were told to go out and play and don’t come in till dinner time.
Sugar isn’t the problem. Sedentary lifestyle is.
Keyword ‘climatechange’ is wrong.
Thanks for posting. There are a lot of ‘settled science’ examples like this. Regarding diet, IMHO it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Just make yourself eat a few relatively ‘boring’ things each day (a salad without much dressing; an apple or two), try not to eat out much, don’t snack, and always stay just a little bit hungry. Add to that some form of daily calorie burning exercise and you will be OK.
I also think that one of the secrets to staying thin is to stay relatively happy in life. For too many people eating is a form of self-soothing and stress relief. Ultimately, if you become overweight, it just becomes another source of stress and unhappiness.
There really is no reason why you should have to buy bigger sized clothes as you age. Seriously. Nonetheless, it is an accepted societal norm.
We always came home when the street lights came on.
A) Science is never settled.
B) The dietary “advice” promoted by the government—high carb, low fat—is largely responsible for the obesity epidemic currently gripping the US. A high protein, low carb arrangement is vastly superior when it comes to losing/maintaining weight.
C) Sedentary work/lifestyles don’t help. Burning off more calories than you take in is essential.
In all honesty, I’ve given up trying to figure out what I’m supposed to eat. Every diet seems to contradict the next, and when you read about a guy who worked out and was a veggitarian (Michael Clark Duncan) dying in his forties of a heart attack, it makes it even harder.
I mainly try to avoid foods I know aren’t overly healthy (pizzas, fast food, fried foods, etc) and stay active. I’m a bit on the pudgy side, but I’m willing to bet I’ve got plenty of muscle under it. And when I see people in the ER who are half my age, yet need help getting out of their beds, I know I’m in good shape.
For centuries it was “settled science” that the sun revolved around the earth. And the “authorities” at the time tried to suppress anyone who didn’t agree. Sound familiar?
That's a far too mild statement. The term "scientific consensus" is, itself, a denigration of real science. The true scientific method requires repeated rigorous experiments to validate an hypothesis. Arm chair consensus, especially by the untrained, is completely irrelevant. As Einstein himself said: "a single experiment can prove me wrong".
My science is settled around my waist.
If you're going to relate diet to any physiological condition, you need to measure diet over a long period. Instead, Keyes sampled diets in his study countries over a period of a few weeks at most.
Ordinarily this wouldn't matter, if people at the same kind of diet all the time.
Unfortunately, Keyes sampled diets in Greece and a few other Orthodox Christian countries during Lent, when people were abstaining from meat. Had he sampled over a whole year, he might well have gotten entirely different results.
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