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Dec 6, 2018 17:26:24 GMT -5
Post by lolly on Dec 6, 2018 17:26:24 GMT -5
Well, when they say 'carb', they mean starches and sugars, and there is a difference between a potato salad and a can of Pepsi. There's a difference between ripe bananas and a box of M&Ms. This is where the term 'relatively low carbs' probably mainly means less processed sugars, considering the tremendous excess thereof in the modern food environment.
The other factor is, less carbs necessarily means more fats and/protein to make up the calories. IOW the benefits of getting enough protein and fat is the same thing as the benefits of lower carbs. Finally, it is likely that people who eat lower carbs in terms of less added sugar are more likely to more health conscious on the whole and have healthier lifestyles generally speaking. In the end, just saying 'low carbs' is vague to the point of being misleading, and it is far better to discuss the balanced distribution of protein, fat and carbs to make one's daily calorie needs.
I totally agree. I didn't quote the entire article but it emphasized healthy oils and proteins as well as healthy carbs. The headline just summarized the issue with the term "lo-carbs." It sounds like our forum has a lot of health-minded folks on board, so this is probably not news to many of them. As Max pointed out, a low-glycemic index diet, alone, would probably eliminate millions of deaths from diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc. but only a fairly small number of people are interested in a pro-active approach to health. As I've gotten older, I've watched countless friends and relatives blow up like balloons, and even after becoming a hundred pounds overweight, they show no interest at all in changing their eating habits. It's rather amazing. It's the cultural normalisation of poor nutrition within consumer society. For most animals, a glut in food supply results in population boom, which it has for human beings, but natural food supply is nutrient dense and low calorie, so animals dont become obese. Our modern food glut is high calorie/low nutrient food supply, so the human population boom also became an obesity boom with the advent of highly processes food. Now that's the norm where the food environment has whole supermarket isles dedicated to pop, another just for confectionary, another just for chips and dips, another for mostly sugary cereal, then frozen pizza and deserts etc. Any animal species released into our food environment would become densely populated, fat and sickly.
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Dec 6, 2018 17:59:33 GMT -5
Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 6, 2018 17:59:33 GMT -5
Also, profit dictates the invention of a variety of hyper palatable, not satiating, and convenient foods. Foods that were once only rarely consumed at celebrations are now a staple. Methinks the lack of fitness is partially due to folks feeling sick and low energy. When peeps get to their lean weight, exercise is done for fun. Folks need to start watching what they put in their mouths before they end up suffering from chronic disease, probably stemming from being constantly awash in insulin and glucose. Indeed. But we are told processed food is good. Almost every food ad is for packaged, processed food. According to a you tube video (the most reliable source information eva), the 2018 Superbowl food ads are for Pepsi, Pringles, Tostitos, Wendy's, Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage, Coca Cola, Doritos, Mountain Dew Ice, HEB sause, Jack in the Box, M&M's, Sunbasket and Avocados. That ratio of 2 fresh foods to 12 'junk/fast' foods is the 'nutritional message' which socially normalises sh!tty eating habits, which are now an intergenerational issue.
The irony is, the food industry is effectively making people unhealthy and the medical industry is cleaning up, and both are making an absolute motser, so neither has any interest in resolving the dire situation. Doctors don't have nutritional training or expertise in exercise physiology, which is really outrageous if you think about it. Yes. The bottom line for food companies is the dollar. And for a generation the "nutritional experts" said the key to a healthy diet (calorie control) was eating less fat, eat low fat foods was the mantra, more carbs less fat. Now we are told that was disastrous advice, it made more people, a generation, fatter and less healthy. Processed food/food manufacturers add salt and sugar to food to sell more and make you eat more, sugar is added to almost all processed foods. My (former) wife's cooking philosophy was, if it doesn't taste good you will not eat too much ...she used salt sparingly... So I try to stay away from all processed foods these days. I've designed a diet from several sources that works pretty well (to step back and give a little info already given. About 1 & 1/2 years ago discovered my blood sugar was up, basically insulin resistance, researched that (the pancreas basically battles itself...kind of a double-bind scenario, that just came to me). Cut out most sugar and bread, experimented with fasting and intermittent fasting. Walked more. Got blood sugar down for my yearly physical Oct. 2017. I've lost 40 lbs in 1 & 1/2 years...still going down)... Started a new "Good Gut Diet" 12 days ago, phase one lasts 30 days. Zero sugar (& no honey or corn sugar), zero bread, no crackers, no cereal (oats OK, oatmeal) no white potatoes (no chips), no white rice, no pasta, no diet drinks, no apples, no dairy (blue cheese OK, Colby, Swiss), no dried beans of any kind), no dried fruit, no cream-based soup, no red meat (but I'm not eating meat anyway, basically doing the China Study diet) + eating in an 8-hour window (been doing that for about 6 mos, previously off and on for about 2 years). The Good Gut Diet dude says most people loose at least 15 lbs (bonus side effect) during phase one, many people more. That is so far proving to be the case for me. (The propose of the (good gut) diet is to eliminate bad gut bacteria and (re)grow good gut bacteria (kind of complicated accomplishing). I have plenty of energy, don't get hungry.
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Dec 24, 2018 7:00:39 GMT -5
Post by Reefs on Dec 24, 2018 7:00:39 GMT -5
I watched an interview with Dr. Goldhamer which was highly informative and well balanced in terms of positives and negatives of prolonged water-only fasting. Dr. Group is an excellent host interviewer. I finally had time to watch the interview. Excellent interview. "People love to have good news about their bad habits." - Alan Goldhamer
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