Posted on 09/16/2010 3:16:51 PM PDT by Nachum
Despite appearances, overall physical activity levels have remained constant for the last quarter of a century during which time weight levels have rocketed, Professor John Speakman said. He claimed that the average man burned 1380 calories per day in the 1980s and continues to do so today. The average woman has burned 950 calories a day during the same period. What has changed is that calorie intake has increased by at least a third to on average 3,500 calories a day, he said.
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Obvious, yes - but you can’t believe the sideways snarls I’ve gotten from my fat friends since I lost 27# (6’3”, 208# to 181#). “It’s my metabolism.” Yeah, OK, whatever. Try eating less or moving more.
Noooo! It’s genetic! It’s hormonal! It’s my medication! It’s the camera adding ten pounds! It’s the tides! It’s the Republicans! It’s aliens! But don’t you tell me I eat too much!
(Oh yeah, and it’s that damn BMI.)
I am far from a believer in the anti-HFCS madness, but I will say that there may be something there in that consuming fructose might alter the appstat. Plain old sugar is just about as bad. For that reason, I also believe there is merit in the various reduced carbohydrate diets.
Where did these idiots come from?
I thought the standard individual daily intake that we see on any food product is 2,000 calories per day? So, that standard misses the average by about 30% for man and 50% for woman?
if you can eat the whole thing, is it free???
John Nash A Beautiful Mind
In college I was appalled when my professor (an assistant to Linus Pauling a.K.a Mr. Vitamin C) said;,
" . .but this is how we always do it."
The horn rimmed uber-idiot was referring to putting the food sample in a ceramic crucible and flaming it in an oven to measure calorie content.
That's not how the body does it, I know , shock , shock, yes it's true, "fire in the belly " is just an expression. Different foods create different effects ( fat pathways?).
HFCS for instance fools the liver by stimulating Grelin ("grrrr I'm hungry hormone) and reducing the effect of Leptin ( "aahhhhh, I'm full).
A double nightmare, it does more( all bad, bad enough to make the HFCS folks petition the government to change the name), but I gotta take this call, later.....
I don't know but it would be fun trying. GULP!
Sugar is nearly as bad. So I dispense with the hand wringing over one, and say we should eat far less of both. But of course, the HFCS crazies would prefer their demons.
mein Gott...
this kid prolly could...
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