My breakfast today...
(purchased for only 105PhP (that's about $2.70 in USD) at Gaisano Capitol Mall, Ormoc City, Leyte...)
(mine was identical to this, except I ate some "healthy" whole wheat bread...)
Posted on 05/12/2013 2:37:18 PM PDT by neverdem
In the 2008 Pixar movie WALL.E, humans so clogged up the earth with garbage they had to move to spaceships. Motorized chairs ferried the obese blobs portraying people of the future, who sipped liquids from massive cups and sat mesmerized by video screens.
It was both funny and scary in its assessment of America’s throw-away, fast-food culture where convenience is everything and self-control and direction outsourced to technology. At the time of the movie it was part of an emerging chorus of voices decrying Americans’ growing girth. Five years later it is almost impossible to go a day without seeing a news story on obesity; first lady Michelle Obama has made childhood exercise and healthy eating a top priority; and even purveyors of the triumvirate of salt, sugar and fat feel compelled to make amends for selling the stuff most blamed for everything from extra pounds to diabetes and heart disease. Coca-Cola, for example, recently promised to make lower-calorie drinks and nutrition information for its products more widely available around the world.
The consensus opinion is that fast food companies and convenience food makers are to blame for the fact that 69 percent of America is either overweight or obese. 2013’s Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, makes one of the most compelling arguments for a side that has compiled reams of evidence that Americans are victims of a plot to maximize profits at the expense of our cholesterol levels, blood pressure and body mass index.
As Moss uncovered, the processed food industry has made a science of finding the “bliss” point for sugar, salt, and fat and developed foods arguably as addictive as alcohol and drugs. It has also found ways to make it nearly...
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Those are old numbers, around what I learned in medical school decades ago. I have seen more recent numbers that are much better.
0 carbs, A perfect meal.
Low fat diets don't work and caused the obesity "epidemic".
“My personal view is that the chubs epidemic is far more due the lack of physical exercise.”
That turns out not to be the case.
The problem is primarily hormonal. And the cause of that is diet. Not as in how much we eat, but in what we eat.
Whether fat deposits are increasing or decreasing is determined entirely by the insulin levels in the blood. The idea that eating less or exercising more will always result in weight loss is, in effect, saying that eating less or exercising more will always result in lowered insulin levels. And that is demonstrably not true, in a fairly large segment of the population.
If your insulin levels are high, you will not burn fat, period. No matter how much of a calorie deficit you have. Of course, if you’re healthy, and eating a healthy diet, and you have a calorie deficit, your insulin levels will be low. But if the reduced number of calories you are eating are primarily of foods that stimulate insulin release, or if your metabolism is so screwed up as to hyper-secrete insulin, then your calorie deficit will make you hungry, and it will make you exhausted, but it will not cause you to lose weight.
Slower has a much better chance at lasting.
What kind of stuff do you eat at each meal? Maybe I could help with some ideas.
Me too. Just chose to eat better. 40 pounds vaporized.
Wife lost 35. Son lost 65.
It’s within tech of everyone with willpower.
Yeah and their food has a lot more fat content too. Plus the Eruos live in big cities and walk to where they need to go. Most of the older men over there are over weight.
People's weight increased as soon as they started attacking the smokers. Also, in the 50's and 60's, doctors handed out speed to mothers like it was candy. Speed kept women thin while giving them the energy to clean the house and watch the kids.
What has really worked for me!
I started gaining weight quite quickly; over 100 lbs in 3 years. Dieting was having no appreciable effect. Then I read a study on sleep and weight. I fit right in. I was only getting 5 to 5.5 hours a sleep at night for the last 3 or so years do to work demands. From the study I learned that my metabolism likely feel dramatically. The good news was that around 9-10 days of good sleep in a row would bring it back. And it did. Now I am loosing a pound a week without dieting. 62 lbs so far and still going. Soon I will add a little exercise and I should be on my way to my desired weight. Nowadays people are working harder and getting less sleep. So are children with TV, video games, email, texting and talking on cell phones. And many can’t go outside do to the threat of sexual predators.
“And all the lawns are mowed by Hispanic dudes with pickup trucks.”
Around here they use lawn mowers.
HaHaHa
I lost 35 lbs after reading wheat belly *WITHOUT* exercise.
Agree. Even a lot of factory work these days is more like what office work was 50 yrs ago.
I’m having spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, and spam.
“Best diet: paleo.”
Agreed.
I’m an anesthetist. Your surgeon friend is wrong. Although there are risks to anesthesia, it’s quite safe...statistically safer than riding in a car.
Exactly! And feeding America's gigantic maw opens up immense new markets for every kind of exercise machine imaginable, health spas, weight-reduction programs, pills and diet books. As Henry J. Kaiser's concrete truck slogan said: "Find a need and fill it."
My breakfast today...
(purchased for only 105PhP (that's about $2.70 in USD) at Gaisano Capitol Mall, Ormoc City, Leyte...)
(mine was identical to this, except I ate some "healthy" whole wheat bread...)
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