Posted on 11/07/2008 7:10:25 PM PST by neverdem
What Bs
Obesity it the result of eating too much of everything
“We are from the government, and we are here to help you.”
Dr. Atkins was right.
This article is responsible for a boredom epidemic...in my head.
Seriously, stop abusing the word “epidemic.” That word’s had it tough enough, growing up on the streets of Chicago with a single mother.
This article isn't very clear on what is exactly wrong with this type of diet... first of all, we all need healthy fats (unsaturated fats plus some a little saturated fats) in our diets... our bodies need it for many things...
The second part is carbs... it is probably one of the most misunderstood type of foods... you do need a lot of carbs but NOT refined carbs! Veggies and fruit are great carbs... but any grain based foods & refined sugars spikes your blood sugar and causes all excess calories to get shuttled off to your love handles...
In my opinion... the government and food industry deliberately refuses to explain why folks are getting fatter and fatter every year... this is why!
LACK of SELF Control is the problem for MANY things in America....including, often....OBESITY. And, welfare, and single moms, etc....
Blame the lobbyists that raised the price of sugar; so high fructose corn syrup gets developed. Fructose burns slowly, and if not used directly its converted into storage fat.
Nope! Obesity is eating too much refined sugars and anything made from grains.
In fact, I just got a report from one of the biggest fitness expert and he was running an experiment for a month or so using himself as the Guinea pig. He overate foods... of the healthy kinds of foods and he said he didn't gain a single ounce...
Oldie but goodie: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068228/posts
You didn’t need a degree in nutrition to know that the low fat, high carbohydrate diet was wrong. One of the reasons it contributes to obesity, I think, is that without a sufficient amount of fat, the body thinks it’s starving and keeps craving food. But if mainly carbs are ingested, that craving does not go away, making overeating almost inevitable. Whoever came up with this idiotic diet should be sued.
Refined corn syrup is in almost every product in the super market...
I would love to see a couple of graphs showing the increase in the use of HFCS and the increase in obesity. I’ll bet they would track almost identicaly.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! HFCS is in my opinion one of the most dangerous foods that you can eat. The most is... French fries! Not only it has bad fats... it is pure glucose. Goes straight to your love handles it does... yes sir!
I used to think that way. Fructose is metabolized differently from glucose. Fructose leads to trigliceride formation with fatty acids. I have the paper if you want me to link it.
Agreed.
No kiddin'! I don't eat much that comes in a bag, box or bottle...
You are not kidding. I was in the Air Force and close to my max weight (big guy, little chubby, but could outrun most everyone in my unit). They put me on the high carb, low-fat diet and aerobics class. Kept up with the class with no problem, but didn't lose an ounce of weight, in fact, I gained.
I told the nutritionist that maybe, just maybe, her plan didn't work for a guy like me.
Here's what it takes ~ alpha amylase, an enzyme found in white kidney beans that converts starch to sugar. Once that's done the sugar feed the yeast, they make gas, and the dough rises even if it's made out of grains once milled for use only as animal feed.
White flour is added to provide sufficient gluten to hold this mass of crushed grain together.
Once you hook people on multigrain bread you add wall board and portland cement and you have your ultimate in "healthy whole grain bread with calcium supplement" to peddle.
Clue, you were ahead with plain old white bread!
Now there are some of us who have a different sort of "gut". We can live on meat alone. In fact, if we consume too many carbs our more limited number of beta cells wear out faster and we show up diabetic. (It's more complex than that but not much).
Meat has fat. Meat has protein. You can eat nuts too because they have fat and protein and are low in carbohydrates.
About 98% of the population cannot live on meat alone though.
When I heard that Sarah Palin decided her family could do without the state supplied chef I knew her kids and her husband have a need for more natural meat based meals. Bet the chef went out of his nut when he heard that Todd liked his meat thick sliced, cold and probably rare.
I can sympathize completely. Nothing like cold porkchops in the morning, cold sausages for lunch, and ham on corn tortillas in the evening.
You betcha.
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