“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 And since the body won’t access it, it becomes a one way street - fat being added and not withdrawn since the body assumes it WILL get more food.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.
“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.”
Perhaps it depends on what we’re buying. I’ve been happy overall, and very often the ratings will give away a serious flaw in a product. I remember once looking for Stabilizing Binoculars and one of the companies making them, I think a German optics company with a household name, had absolutely terrible customer service* - so stuff like that is really useful to know before spending a boatload of cash.
*The biggest complaint people were having was that the binocs would use AA batteries, and, sure enough, they’d spill out. So people wanted to know if anything could be done, and they couldn’t even talk to a human about it. And, by the way, on that - use Energizer Lithium AAs, they simply do not spill, nor do they lose charge in storage. Below is the Amazon link, but Sams can usually beat their prices. For the sizes they sell, AA, AAA, and 9V, it is now the ONLY battery I use. I’m done with Alkalines.
https://www.amazon.com/Energizer-Lithium-Batteries-Ultimate-Battery/dp/B01C4PP8FK/
The liver has the first pass at blood sugar and uses a different metabolic chain to force storage as glycogen in muscle tissue. The pancreas is second in line and clears excess blood sugar by a transformation process to fat storage. An unhealthy liver is the root cause of type II diabetes. Only 5 to 10 percent liver function will mask symptoms.
Bitter green vegetation is what the liver craves to heal. It takes about two years to fully regenerate, given the proper nutrients. Dietary fat of itself has little effect on raising blood sugar. It will suppress hunger.