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. It’s not any better for women —145 to 170. And you don’t 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 diabetes—a condition that can lead to severe medical issues—has risen from 2% in 1977 to over 9% in 2015. In hard numbers, that’s 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.
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I think you nailed it... it isn’t so much what you eat, but how much that determines if you will become fat.
We are also far more sedentary. Eating caloric carbohydrates and then being physically inactive is a formula for fat accumulation.
The body’s ability to store carbs is limited: as glycogen in the muscles and liver.
Bodybuilders know to carbo load only before intense physical activity.
Overall, I agree. You are doing well.
However, we are omnivores, not carnivores. True carnivores have about ten times the stomach acid of human beings (for protein digestion).
I suggest you include these vegetable fats: coconut [MCTs], and hemp [EFAs], either as whole foods or extracted oils.
Half of coconut oil (SCT and MCT faction) starts to digest in the mouth (lingual lipase), is easily metabolized without gall bladder function, and increases metabolic rate (fat burning), both directly by stimulating brown fat, and indirectly by increasing the efficiency of thyroid hormones.
Hemp is an almost ideal plant food, both for protein and lipid factions. It is tragic that the artificial cultivar, marijuana, has sullied its ancient reputation. The shelled achene (nut) has 30% protein (including 2/3 globular), with a better profile, and more digestible than soy (which I do not at all recommend), and its fatty acid profile is almost unique: both EFAs plus both first derivatives of both EFAs, in an excellent ratio for human beings.
Hemp was one of the most important crops during the nation’s founding, and was one of the first foods analyzed at the dawn of modern organic chemistry, in the late Nineteenth Century.
Yes. Low in protein, and the profile is poor.
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Have you seen the one where he is a Vegetarian? Hilarious
Bodybuilders know to carbo load only before intense physical activity.
I don't know anything about body building and had no idea they carbo loaded. I was once a regional road racing cycling champion and raced nationally as well. I typically rode 300 miles a week most of the year. My normal daily ride was around 45 miles and took around 2 hours. My longer rides were typically over 100 miles. I still did this type of training regimen some years later in my life.
The amount of calories that a trained cyclist burns while riding at a fairly intense pace are a lot more per mile than someone riding the same distance at a slower pace. So my day often revolved around eating enough before, after and during my efforts. The timing is actually quite important, to replenish depleted glycogen stores in your muscles most efficiently one must consume a lot of carbohydrates soon after a ride.
Before a training ride one must load up on carbohydrates as well to get them started going through your system. And on rides one must eat before you start to get hungry to keep a steady stream of carbohydrates to help extend the carbohydrate stores in your muscles and liver. When those stores become depleted on a longer ride it is very noticeable. It becomes much more difficult to keep up a fast pace.
You are capable of metabolizing fat for energy only at a much slower pace than what your digestive system can provide which is why it is so important to never let your digestive system stop providing sugar to your blood stream during competition. When you fail to eat enough on a ride and you deplete your glycogen and the sugar being provided by your digestive system and you are using almost exclusively energy from your stored fat, it is miserable... we used to call it “bonking out”. I took specific supplements to enhance my body's ability to metabolize fat on longer rides and they made a measurable difference, but I am sure that this was partially psychological.
I was invited to go on a century (100 mile) ride by a group that I met out on the road. My wife and I like to tandem bike ride, so I decided to take her along. It was her first century. We had been hit by a car which broke the frame of our good tandem, so we showed up on our folding tandem which weighed ten pounds more, had upright handlebars and cheap components. The other riders were not too impressed. They gave us a map because they thought that we would be dropped for sure. But they had no idea how competitive my wife was. I had her drink and eat a lot the night before and then in the morning as well. During the ride I made her eat a cafinated food bar every ten miles and drink ice water out of our jumbo sized hydration pack.
We set the pace at around 22mph all the way to the restaurant at the half way point. No one would believe that she had not ridden a century before. On the way back we started riding fast again and the whole group just disintegrated behind us. These were people who rode bikes worth thousands of dollars and wore the most expensive gear, but none of them seemed to really knew how to keep themselves fueled for a hundred mile ride ridden at a quick pace. They were not racers just cycling connoisseurs. We were never invited to go riding with them again.
I like to spar here but I am so glad we are still friends. I love pretty much all of his videos because he reminds me so much of some of the cycling friends that I used to have in the 70s and 80s.
Not a problem FRiend, I can disagree with folks I like just as much as those I don’t...
It has garnered me much respect from both camps as I am usually proven right, over time ... sometimes it takes a long time and we forget and like with my fishing buddy... He used to be my Boss and back then we argued all the time (probably why we got along so well) .. Well last year we were fishing and conversation about a certain job 15 years prior... guess what ... We are still arguing about that job (I’m still right, but it is his Boat so I’m going to prove him wrong at a later date, we are both retired so we have plenty of time and them fish won’t catch themselves)
I just find the pyramid that was presented to me as a parent for my kids pretty shocking as I look at it now...
Seems that since the gov’t guidelines, be they low fat/low cal or lots of grains, people are having more weight issues...and I do agree that inactivity is a contributing factor...as are differing metabolisms.
I am not opposed to grains—in moderation. However, as a parent, I regret that I fed my kids a diet based this pyramid as well as myself, and from from what I have read, carbs turn to sugars...
I do trust the judgement of previous generations for many things...and they ate meat, and veggies natural carbs like fruits and starches like potatoes..very few processed foods...
BTW, have you ever read about the history of breakfast and advent of cereal...follow the money!
I just went to my Youtube and found the Prager vid that sparked the article that spawned this thread ;^)
almost 6 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7vJZAYoFPk
odd that I had been discussing the Article and since I am a sub to Prager it shows up just now as a youtube vid... anyway it is pretty good even if it a couple hours late
Please tell us what an “essential carb” is.
Also, can you point to people who were hurt by an Atkins diet?
You over eat and you get fat!!! I should know I was at 265 lbs and am only 5’ 7”. went on diet and lost 95 lbs in 3 months..
I mean before you eat the whole bird, as you are carving it all up.... dispatch them yummy wings as you work.... THEN OF COURSE serve the rest of the bird, lol.
There is no substitutes for “carbs” when you are competing in long distance bicycle racing. You still need fat and protein but you cannot digest or process them fast enough to provide the amount of energy you need during competition. And after you have depleted your glycogen stores they are replenished most efficiently with carbohydrates consumed as soon as possible after your effort.
I have never used the term “essential carbs” that I recall. What I would remind people of again is that a healthy gut biome is made up of a wide variety of bacteria. If you essentially cut out an entire food group it will have a negative effect on the diversity of these healthy bacteria. People have survived on meager diets made up of foods that have not provided a good variety of nutrients. Many go on for years eating what most would consider to be lacking in nutrients. But it still probably is not very good for them.
As far as the Atkins diet goes... I have had friends who have lost their health and died while refusing to give it up against their physician's advice. They all presumed that the self help diet books they read made them more qualified than the medical professionals who were trying to restore their health. I saw the same situation on many medical calls that we responded to.
There is nothing more stupid than putting your health at risk by falling for the nonsense from diet charlatans. And the biggest diet charlatan of the past three or so decades was Robert Atkins whose nonsense has likely compromised the health of millions.
I have had my own challenges with weight. At times I have had an extremely high activity level and have grown accustomed to eating large portions and snacking frequently. I have not always cut my caloric intake enough when circumstances have caused me to become less active. Fortunately, all I usually have to do to take the weight off is to start a new training regimen and cut out the snacks, but the older I get the more challenging this system becomes.
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Plenty of full blood panels and lost weight show that those people are wrong. That includes my own.
The fourth phase of Atkins goes to 100 net carbs a day. Not exactly “low carb.”
The ADA knew in 2006 that low carb actually fixed diabetes, but said that because a low carb diet was not as easy as eating pasta, they couldn’t recommend it:
https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20060616/do-low-carb-diets-help-diabetes
Now, 13 years later, the ADA gladly admits low carb is a provably excellent way to live a long life:
https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/very-low-carbohydrate-diets-for-diabetes-ada-2018-580309/
The main UK Diabetes group has this now on their website, while the ADA is still “introducing” people to their newfound stance:
Well I lost 95 lbs without exercise!!!
Congratulations on your weight loss. I am going to state the obvious here for you... Exercise and physical activity are not necessary components for losing weight. But those who are not physically active tend to fare much worse as the years pile on.
My wife, who is in her mind 60s was pudgy in high school, but was very active even then. She lost the weight in her 20s and has kept it off ever since and has always stayed very active. Her younger sister was thin up until her 40s but never very physically active now looks much older than my wife. More importantlty, we had to buy a wheelchair for my wife to push her around in When she came up to visit. There is nothing really wrong with her, but she can't get up a flight of stairs without help or even walk around the mall because she is so out of shape.
If you cut your calories, or play some type of metabolic trick on your digestive system by eating only fat and protein... you will definitely lose weight. But if you do not stay active or exercise the years will not be your friend; your quality of life as you get older will not be as good as it could have been. It is the difference between 90 year olds who are still getting around, enjoying themselves and living independently, and 70 year olds who are housebound or sitting in a wheelchair playing bingo in a nursing home. Which future do you envision for yourself?
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