Posted on 01/02/2011 3:16:05 PM PST by neverdem
Another year ends, and still the war drags on. In the final salvo of 2010, the combatants are lobbing fruit.
Not literally, of course, though they might like to: The long war of the weight-loss diets has aroused passions just about as overheated as those of any military conflict.
How is a person best advised to lose extra weight and retreat from diabetes and heart disease? Count calories, cut fat and fill up on fruits and vegetables? Or turn instead to a high-protein, high-fat...
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In the opposite corner we have Gary Taubes, the science journalist who has thrown in his lot with the high-fat, high-protein crowd, arguing in his new book that the overweight should just put down their apples and walk away: “If we’re predisposed to put on fat, it’s a good bet that most fruit will make the problem worse, not better.”
But those who are curious about the science behind it all could do worse than to pick up Mr. Taubes’s book “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.”
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And the only one of these hormones under even a smidgen of voluntary control is insulin. At this point Mr. Taubes merges onto the narrative highway traveled by all low-carb advocates: The body’s insulin levels are largely determined by ingested carbohydrates, and for some people the high-carb foods that stimulate insulin secretion and cravings for more high-carb foods are, in this worldview, just so much poison.
So that apple — a filling package of fiber and vitamins to the Weight Watchers folks — is just a serving of fructose to Mr. Taubes. Fructose is the problematic sugar our bodies turn to fat the most readily, and if you are programmed to be fat, an apple will make you that much fatter...
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OMG! I’ve been zinged with an unsharpened zinger! LOL
Has anyone told you what a sharp wit you have?
Didn’t think so.
Damn, there goes my New Year’s resolution not to toy with the retards this year.
It seems similar to Atkins.
Actually Atkins is full of fat.....bacon, cream, butter......
Dukan is low fat, low carb, no sugar. Lots of fiber and protein.
All I know is that I feel great, I look great, no more type 2 diabetes and a cholesterol level of 106.
Good for you. Finding the right diet can be very difficult, so it’s important to have different options. Some can only do a low calorie diet, which doesn’t work for me. On the other hand, I can’t do it without exercise.
Good for you. Finding the right diet can be very difficult, so it’s important to have different options. Some can only do a low calorie diet, which doesn’t work for me. On the other hand, I can’t do it without exercise.
Dang, you just can’t stop proving that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was right. It’s like a compulsion or something. Give it a rest, for corn’s sake.
(Six weeks late to the thread, but) I have found after repeated experiments that if I stick to an Atkins diet, I lose about 2 lbs a week. If I add one apple... ONE APPLE to that diet I will gain back a pound. It's happened about four times. It's tragic because I love apples.
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