Posted on 09/23/2019 11:40:08 AM PDT by fireman15
How is it that ever since the government began telling us what to eat, we have gotten fatter and sicker?
In 1977, when the government first set dietary guidelines, the average American male weighed 170 pounds. He now weighs 197. Its not any better for women 145 to 170. And you dont need an academic study to know the same thing is happening to kids. Just look around.
The weight gain has real-life consequences: the percentage of Americans diagnosed with type 2 diabetesa condition that can lead to severe medical issueshas risen from 2% in 1977 to over 9% in 2015. In hard numbers, thats five million people to over 30 million people.
How did this happen?
It all started innocently enough in the 1950s, when President Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack while in office. Suddenly, the issue of heart health became a national obsession.
(Excerpt) Read more at prageru.com ...
Fat and protein also take longer to digest so they do not raise your blood sugar as much as easy to digest carbohydrates. Fluctuations in blood sugar and insulin level affect a person's appetite so this is one of the reasons not eating carbohydrates is also helpful to some I individuals when trying to control their cravings.
The primary issue that I have with the “Atkins diet” is that it encourages people to almost completely eliminate an entire food group from their diet. This has many unintended consequences that are not healthy. We now have probably a majority of people who make their dietary choices based on how many “carbs” foods have in them rather than the important nutrients they contain for your body and digestive system. This is misguided.
I have personally witnessed sad situations many times now. People become fat by eating too much crap and not exercising. They then experience weight loss by using one of the “low carb” diets. Then they become fanatical about it and accept only information that reinforces what they already believe. Some of them begin to experience serious health problems that are directly related to their fad diet and end up in the hospital. Then they refuse to take the dietary advice of the medical professionals that are trying to help them get healthy again. After reading and watching all the tainted propaganda spread by our diet industry they believe that they know better than doctors and nutritionists.
It sounds so ridiculous that it is hard to believe that anyone who is not a moron would do this. But I have lost friends who I can assure you were very intelligent, and I saw this same scenario play out many times on medical calls that we responded to. I know that you will not believe me, but people who have bought into the Atkins diet are typically the worst. It frustrates me because our multi-billion dollar diet industry cares much more about hawking supplements and processed foods than about the health of their customers.
I am glad that doctors have found “low carb” diets that help some people with diabetes. But this has little if anything to do with people making unwise nutritional choices based solely on the amount of “carbs” various foods contain.
I was never very active. How ever I did play sport in Junior High and the first 2 years High school.. I wanted a car to drive and my father said either play sports and no car or go to work and have a car. So I went to work and got me a car and a girl friend! On the weight loss thing If you really want to lose weight you can. I lost 95 lbs in 3 months. Simple diet salad.. We’re talking big salads med cheddar, meat on top lettuce tomato and Thousand island dressing. Only ate one meal a day.. around noon.. drank coffee no sugar..
I typically just cut out sweets, fast food and snacks and increase my activity level when I want to lose weight. I also eat a salad with a good variety of vegetables before I go to bed. This is less to lose weight and more as an aid to digestion for me, because I put do put a generous amount of blue cheese dressing on it. Fresh vegetables have a plethora of healthy bacteria in them that are better for your gut than any pre-biotic that I know of and also have a lot of fiber.
Meant to say better than prebiotic or probiotic that I know of.
I forgot to say that with my salad I had desert 1 golden delicious apple.. That was all I ate one meal a day.. First 10 days hardly saw any weight loss but after that it started dropping fast. Like I said I lost 95 lbs in 3 months..
That is pretty amazing. I have never lost more than 5 pounds a week even when I was riding my bicycle 40 miles a day and trying to get ready for competition. Digging into fat stores during rides during time periods when I was restricting my carbohydrate consumption cut my training route times down considerably. So it was a trade-off. I was not capable of getting quality workouts and losing weight at a faster rate than that.
An impressive thing about your weight loss is that you didn’t lose a lot of water weight in the first ten days. Losing a bunch of water weight is usually one of the first things that happens on many types of diets. But being chronically dehydrated is really not that healthy.
The body holds glucose (glycogen) in muscles that is necessarily paired with water, roughly three parts water to one part glucose. When these sugar stores are spent down, water is no longer needed in that muscle, outside of the normal blood sugar being provided by the liver.
Water content of the blood is normal throughout this time.
And, amazingly, muscle mass is not lost as it would be on a low protein type diet.
http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/jyelon/lowcarb.med/topic2.html
I had co-workers on Atkins that literally would drop like flies anytime we had a fire or we had to exert ourselves at work. often these guys literally had to be transported to the hospital. While there the problem would usually be figured out by the staff and they would be counseled about how to improve their diets. Would any of them take the advice they were given? Typically not! Instead they would come back telling tales about how stupid the doctors were for trying to get them to eat a diet with too many “carbs”. Then they would resume their grumpy disposition eating nothing but meat and Atkins protein bars and frozen dinners until the next event when they couldn't carry their own weight.
One of my drivers even got reassigned to communications after the she if noticed that he couldn't perform adequately at a multi-company drill. He was very close to getting fired after under-performing for years. His weight kept ballooning up and down, and he kept getting more and more unhealthy, but he had encyclopedic knowledge of the Atkins diet and would not give it up. I haven't kept track of him since I retired, but I would be shocked if I found out that he was still working.
And I should mention that he was probably the smartest crew member that I ever had during my career and he was a conservative. Since we and the engine crew made up the hazmat team on our shift he was a valuable asset and I covered for him to keep him on the team. I would never have considered sending suiting him up and sending him into the hot zone... he wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in all that gear. But he was invaluable when it came to his knowledge and skills analyzing samples and figuring out the best ways to deal with various situations.
I have known lots of very smart people who have adopted the “low carb” lifestyle. If you are someone who has a low energy lifestyle and mostly sits on your rear end all day it might be OK for a few years. But it likely will screw up the balance of good bacteria in your gut after a while, which probably will have negative health consequences. And there are a plethora of studies that show that unbalanced diets tend to result in poor outcomes. But the number one problem for me is that a person who is truly active and has a need to work hard, really does need carbohydrates for energy. These days most people are inactive which is the primary reason they can stay on diets which include almost no carbohydrates.
Android autocorrect changed chief to she in my last post.
Yes, in that case, Paleo or Mediterranean Diet would be solid fallbacks.
These days most people are inactive which is the primary reason they can stay on diets which include almost no carbohydrates.
You have stated the exact truth.
Yogurt? Oh, my god. They got Giuliani and he doesn't even know it.
Well I went from about 3000 calories a day to about 800 or so. I ate a large lettuce and tomato salad with shredded med Cheddar cheese on top with lunch meat sliced on top.. One day I would have chicken the next turkey then beef. topped off with 1000 island dressing.. One golden delicious apple. One time a day.. I really liked that food it was great. The biggest problem was getting your stomach shrunk down so you ain’t hungry all the time. I did drink two pots of coffee a day..
I drank 2 pots of coffee a day.. Sweetened with saccharine!!
I am glad that we have found areas that despite my lengthy bloviating, we are in complete agreement on. The typical crap that most Americans stuff themselves with every day is probably not as good for them or as diverse as the diet advice that you might give them.
They probably only grew common yellow dent corn, a thick-hulled high starch grain of lower sugar content which is suitable for livestock but not suitable as “corn on the cob” table fare, nor for popcorn.
Thin-hulled sweet corn with its high sugar content is suitable for the table- its kernels shrivel up like raisins when dried, whereas dent corn barely shrivels. Dent corn holds its smooth shape except for a unique tiny dent on the exposed, flattened end of the kernel.
Flint corn, with rounded ends and a thick hard hull, is good for corn meal and decoration and comes in an array of colors. Red, black, white and yellow popcorn, with a rounded tear shape and a thin hull and high moisture content, doesn’t shrivel at all.
If you grow more than one kind of corn, though, you risk cross pollination ruining the seed for next year, so it’s easier to just grow the most profitable dent corn, which is probably why they didn’t have sweet corn for dinner.
This is my go-to frozen berries to swirl in the yogurt when I am out of fresh berries.
I had same experience, it pains to to say. Because I love beer and drank it much of my life. However, it really blows up my belly.
I've switched to red wine and hard seltzer like White Claw and Truly. BTW, Truly is owned by the Boston Beer Co., the same outfit that makes my namesake Samuel Adams beer.
Now these hard seltzers are considered "girly drinks" I know but bear in mind that beer contains female hormones and men who drink a lot of beer start growing breasts.
Now that's a hard truth.
People blame the food pyramid like anybody actually follows it. Really folks we got fat cause we ate a lot and did nothing. Don’t blame the government for issuing a guideline (good or bad) that you completely ignored.
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