Posted on 08/24/2019 6:04:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Many of the millions of people who shop on Amazon.com see it as if it were an American big-box store, a retailer with goods deemed safe enough for customers.
In practice, Amazon has increasingly evolved like a flea market. It exercises limited oversight over items listed by millions of third-party sellers, many of them anonymous, many in China, some offering scant information.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
“I kept trying to explain how all those excess calories will be sent to fat synthesis pathways in the body.”
For sure on that! This low fat crap didn’t do the country any favors.
And yet the Washington Compost and the smaller newspapers around the country that use Compost feeds for half of their "news" say nothing. I wonder why?
“So we probably agree to some extent on the value of fats, etc., but disagree on the carb side.”
Agree, but one thing that has been noted is that there is not a single medical condition/disease that results from too few carbs (such as some type of vitamin deficiency), at least according to Nina (the babe in the video I linked to). People say balance is good...but there still isn’t anything saying that people must have carbs.
But cool, at least we’re on board with fat. I’ll try to better get my hands around how fat in food can get processed into body fat - maybe there’s some indirect way, but I still think it’s the carbs that become the body fat, and the food fat is simply used real-time or stored in the body in a different form.
You’re “preaching to the chroir” to many of us here. :)
There’s no such thing as essential carbohydrates, while there are essential proteins and fatty acids.
Now, it’s true that you do need certain nutrients that can only come from foods with carbohydrates in them, green leafy vegetables, like Brussels Sprouts and Cauliflower.
Fakest of all fake news.
Amazon never was able pre screen all the stuff people sell through its retail storefront software service any more than newspapers screened their advertisements.
Not only is this not news, there never were any good old days to long for.
The bleating of the snowflake sheep.
LOL!
Carbs aren’t dangerous. Lots of carbs and no exercise is bad. But that’s on the person who considers doritos a meal.
It’s the combination of high carbs and high fat, that is the worst.
Carbs also keep you hungry throughout the day.
> Not only is this not news, there never were any good old days to long for. <
Yes, I tend to agree that there never were any good old days to long for. But this is still, IMHO, an article worth posting.
And that’s because many people assume that if a product is on Amazon, it must have been vetted in some way. And this is particularly true if the product is an “Amazon’s Choice”.
But according to the article, that’s not always the case. That’s something I think people need to know. And that’s way I posted it.
“Carbs aren’t dangerous. Lots of carbs and no exercise is bad. But that’s on the person who considers doritos a meal.”
Perhaps one can compare carbs to cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes is definitely bad, and people can and often do get hooked on them. But others can smoke them regularly for a week, and stop cold for months, if not forever...for them cigarettes aren’t bad. And others can smoke heavy for decades and never have any bad health effects.
So, like with carbs, cigarettes aren’t bad for everyone. But carbs are bad for close to half of the people (those overweight and worse), and that number is skyrocketing...so it would seem reasonable that our government should note that and tell people they need to cut back on carbs - but my point is that they’re paralyzed by the special interests, so we watch the numbers of obese/diabetic people grow and grow, while doing nothing about it.
Dammit, I did hijack it - I owe you a thread.
> Dammit, I did hijack it - I owe you a thread. <
No worries! I’ve hijacked a few threads in my day as well. I blame it all on Global Warming.
But I figure it would be easier to return a defective product to Cricut than to some Chinese company.
You are correct. The Chicoms sell a lot of garbage knowing buyers will never pay to return the items. They have a sweetheart deal on air mail postage that POTUS is trying to end. It costs them $3 to air mail say a book to you but $30 US postage if you want to return it.
“Eating too much is what makes people fat.”
Arguably, insulin makes the body fat. And insulin resistance from too many, too frequent intakes of carbs will put the fat into a vault that is very hard to access. And since the body won’t access it, it becomes a one way street - fat being added and not withdrawn since the body assumes it WILL get more food.
Think of it as a freezer and a fridge. If the body has learned it can always get food from the fridge, it never needs to empty the freezer. And meanwhile, it shoves any excess in the fridge into the freezer. One way only.
Keeping carbs in a diet works fine provided one doesn’t eat to excess and keeps a good mixture of food going in so insulin won’t spike hard. Also, humans are like wild animals: we store when there is excess so we can stay alive when deprived. Except in modern society, winter never cuts down our food supply so we are never deprived.
Calories in, calories out is incredibly simplistic. It has an element of truth. If you cut calories enough, and long enough, we will lose weight. No one can live on air. But it also ignores a very important truth - we are animals, not cars, and our hormones play a huge role in our bodies use of calories.
It isn’t either/or. Calories play a role, but so do hormones. Hormones can give you cravings. In my experience, being HUNGRY is easy to tolerate. CRAVINGS are not. And poor nutritional choices - with encouragement from the USDA and the American Heart Association - cause cravings. Craving cause a drive to eat, and often a drive to eat the thing that is killing us.
Back to topic: I suspect a lot of ratings on Amazon are utterly bogus, particularly with Chinese products. I’d much rather trust the government (which I don’t) than amazon’s ratings of Chinese goods. I’ve also noticed in searching for a product, Amazon seems to drive me to see ONLY cheap Chinese goods. I strongly suspect Amazon has been hacked by the Chinese government. Certainly manipulated.
Amazon has been full of garbage since they started going 3rd party shipping. In their very early days vendors shipped everything to Amazon in Seattle and it was inspected before being sent on to a buyer.
No they don’t. Man the carb myths are epic and silly. Carbs fill you up, that’s why buffets have so many. Cheap and filling helps the profits.
Eating Carbs makes me hungry...for more carbs...so I avoid them.
Thanks LR, I feel better now!
Nope. Silly. The simple reality is carbs have a lot of energy. If you do something with the energy that’s good. If you don’t that’s on YOU. Or as I said to a coworker who was declaiming all the carbs in trail mix because she thought it was supposed to be healthy: don’t eat it on the couch, it’s called trail mix for a reason. Carbs are fine IF YOU USE THEM. Special interests have nothing to do with any of this, you’re just blaming the government for your bad habits. The only part of that you have at all right is that the government shouldn’t be giving diet advice at all. Because every person has a different life. The old food pyramid is great for farmers and welders and other people who do hard physical labor. Not so much for software engineers (me). So I use my brain, control what I eat, get exercise and come in at a slightly plump 204. Which ain’t bad for 50 with a desk job. And damn right I eat carbs, they’re delicious. I just don’t gorge on them and work it off at the gym.
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