Thanks, you’re right of course. The simple science of modern American weight gain: Sugars are transported throughout the body to feed the cells...including fat cells. The body is bombarded with sugars...like processed carbs everyone calls junk food. Those carbs give you hunger to eat more, because the cells don’t recognize the nutrition properly, and eventually the process itself changes and the body goes diabetic. This is called insulin resistance, and it has bad consequences.
Getting rid of processed cards and easy sugars will help return your body to normal. Getting rid of fat in diet really has no great effect on blood sugar levels. It is directly testable by any blood sugar meter.
Nutritionists concentrate on an aspect that is a symptom not a cause. Calories are interesting but are neutral on what causes unnatural hunger. Hunger causes overeating. Excess calories from overeating cause weight gain. If you don’t deal with the hunger, a diet will make you feel like you are starving, whatever the caloric intake. Diets don’t work because the feeling of starving sucks. Skinny dieticians that have not starved probably don’t get it. And obesity is worse than quitting smoking...you still have to eat.
DK
Lost half my body weight through diet so I hope I have walked my talk.
I was watching an interesting documentary on exercise the other night with hubby and they were trying to demonstrate how a 90 minute walk at night would help lower your cholesterol the next day.
Day one, they drew a fasting blood draw, then had the subject eat a ‘high fat’ meal. (50g of fat) After the meal, they redid the blood test and there was visibly twice as much fat in the second sample.
That night they had him take a 90 minute walk, then repeat the breakfast and the post-meal sample had much less fat in it.
I wanted to scream at the TV. Their ‘high fat’ meal was friggin’ loaded with carbs.
More than a CUP of mashed potatoes, two HUGE slices of toast, and a pile of baked beans!
The baked beans alone accounts for more than 50g and the mashed potatoes gives another 35g. 40g for two slices of Texas Toast. I’m not even going to count the breading on some of the other crap they put on that plate.
So they feed this guy more than 125g of carbs in one meal and blame the fat for the problem.
Their points about exercise were very good, though.