Posted on 05/27/2013 2:35:55 PM PDT by Altariel
A CALORIE is a calorie. This truism has been the foundation of nutritional wisdom and our beliefs about obesity since the 1960s.
What it means is that a calorie of protein will generate the same energy when metabolized in a living organism as a calorie of fat or carbohydrate. When talking about obesity or why we get fat, evoking the phrase “a calorie is a calorie” is almost invariably used to imply that what we eat is relatively unimportant. We get fat because we take in more calories than we expend; we get lean if we do the opposite. Anyone who tells you otherwise, by this logic, is trying to sell you something.
But not everyone buys this calorie argument, and the dispute erupted in full force again last week. The Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a clinical trial by Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital and his collaborators. While the media tended to treat the study as another diet trial — what should we eat to maintain weight loss? — it spoke to a far more fundamental issue: What actually causes obesity? Why do we get fat in the first place? Too many calories? Or something else?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
generally stable person
I have my days...
But, I was raised to show NO emotion. Ever. NEVER let anyone know what you are feeling, or, thinking...
:)
But then a Calorie is not a calorie.
A person who eats 2,880 calories per day will consume over 52,560,000 calories over a 50 year period. For those who count, well, that’s a lot of counting.
Yep. Unless you have untreated thyroid problems it works every time, all the time. I've been wheat-free for several years. Finally convinced my 89 year old mother -- who was increasingly distressed over her weight gain due to inability to exercise [and cravings for cookies and bread] -- to try it.
First two weeks, she lost 8 pounds. I've been leaving out wheat for several decades, off an on, since Atkins came out. I finally realized, through trial and error, that the carbs from most vegetables [potatoes and corn aside] don't hurt at all. But giving up the pasta, pano, and pizza, make skinny possible.
Fascinating!!
I remember when I was a little kid my grandmother told me about her "eat no white" diet.
Not sure if she was ahead of her time or if maybe we just let our diet get sidetracked over the years.
If I did that [REDACTED AS INAPPROPRIATE FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE].
/johnny
you be skinny! lol
who knew!
I tried the “Don’t anything that is White” diet, it worked except I craved mashed taters and Macaroni... and when I cheated... I cheated.
Now I just keep it in the back of my head and lean towards stuff that isn’t white... I dip my steak in that white gravy instead of smothering it, no gravy is left but what the heck I feel better about it.
Basically if I don’t starve myself I don’t crave ... and I don’t stuff myself with carbs. (unless I need to sleep)
TT
Ah. I am an open book. Vulnerable and miserable. LOL
As I tried to suggest before, right now there is a scientific “gold rush” going in many different directions. A “skinny flora” is just a theory, in that they’ve only started doing floral surveys in the last few years.
To put in context, a typical person has between three and five entirely different floral patterns in their life. Some 300-1000 different bacteria at a time, with 30-40 different bacteria taking up almost all of the physical space.
The bacteria are limited to zones of the GI tract as well. For example, E. coli are essential in the large intestines, but poisonous anywhere else in the body.
The Archaea are thought to be high up in the GI tract, but though they look like bacteria, they actually belong to their own evolutionary *domain*. There are only three domains: bacteria, Archaea, and every single other form of life on Earth. That different. We only figured out how different just a decade or two ago.
Bacteria aren’t even the dominant life form in the flora. We have absolutely no idea how many different viruses are in there, but we know that many of them are “bacteriophage”, which means they *eat* bacteria. Without them doing so, bacteria would overwhelm us.
We also have protozoa, fungi, lots of parasites even today, and all of it is interactive with our stupidly complicated immune system.
Some doctors are now using “fecal transplants” to restore a healthy flora to someone whose flora is damaged. A doctor recently commented that doing so made him feel about as knowledgeable as the first caveman who tried trepanning (drilling a hole in the skull), and it seemed to help.
I would post pics if i knew how. Went from a pudgy 237 last year to a ripped 190lbs 6 pack machine. Low Carb, hi protein, mod fat.
Palin also runs for hours at a time.
Only close friends, family and the federal government.
So I thought I'd share. May as well. Everyone else knows.
/johnny
****** “Listen to your body and behave accordingly. It knows better than most of the doctors and scientists.” ******
Sing it! If you starve your body (for what you are hungry for) you will binge ... just eat balanced, eat less if you are overweight... it is simple stuff to figure out really.
Johnny ... still waiting for you to write the “Ugly Dog Cook Book” it will be a Best Seller!
TT
PS In my early Coffee Roasting days I over Roasted some beans, not one to waste I sprinkled the beans on Ice Cream ... now I’m hooked .... I sprinkle fresh roasted beans on Ice Cream, Whipped Cream... I could probably just put them in a bowl and squirt some Chocolate syrup on them... bet my Sawbones will want to change my BP Meds after hearing this. ;^)
For example, I don't eat habanero peppers anymore. I didn't need a light to see what the problem was.
The cops accepted my explanation, and suggested ice cream. And asked me to stop screaming.
Just listen to your body saying "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!
/johnny
******* “When the SHTF, we will come for the fat ones!!” *****
Yeah... I do actually worry about that... but I figure once the Beer goes away I’ll slim down pretty fast.
(I’ll have a lot fewer neighbors stop in as well)
TT
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