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some food that flipped this on Stop eating bread (yes, pizza counts as bread. beer counts as bread. stop it). Stop drinking calories unless you're exercisin
by seiji 11y ago
some food that flipped this on
Stop eating bread (yes, pizza counts as bread. beer counts as bread. stop it). Stop drinking calories unless you're exercising for 2+ hours at once (yes, fruit juice is bad for you. stop it).
The practice of making "processed foods" is essentially just cramming carbs and salt into everything and making it as highly concentrated as possible. Much processed food (read: basically anything pre-packaged in a wrapper) is more like a high calorie MRE food brick instead of something you should be combining with other foodstuffs.
We know how food interacts with human bodies. Water doesn't cause fat growth. Dietary fat doesn't cause fat growth (the chemical 'fat' isn't human fat tissue, so drinking a gallon of olive oil won't increase your fat stores). High glycemic sugars cause fat growth in non-glycogen depleted bags of bones. Turns out we can stop getting obese just by not eating things causing obesity.
- meursault334 11y agoI think this is likely the explanation. There isn't a food that "flips it on" it's always been on in some people and in others they are either highly resistant to this process or it is age-dependent. Fortunately the solution is to not eat the foods that this process depends on. I think this an important point because you can either wait for therapies that target these processes or simply stop eating crap and accept that some people are more able to eat crap than you are. Since I've cut processed food and bread entirely out of my diet I've lost a lot of weight pretty effortlessly. I don't think this experience is unique. I also know people that can eat lots of these foods without weight gain.
- elif 11y agoYou're talking about a different kind of obesity i think. The only thing even remotely healthy about my diet is the vegan part.. but that makes me rely even more on the carb-heavy foods you attack. I eat tons of processed wheat-based food every day.. I drink heavy juices by the liter, and I am still seriously underweight. There is clearly a metabolic component, the control of which the OP was theorizing.
- seiji 11y agoOh, absolutely. I know people who subsist on nothing but ice cream, pasta, chipotle, and orange juice while not gaining significant weight. They aren't ripped, but they aren't overweight either. In the aggregate of society, the hyper-ectomorph phenotype isn't what people are fighting against. But, we must not forget about them either. Excessive school lunch programs of calorie restriction aimed towards stopping "fat kids" just pains the skinny kids who need way more calories than the 8 year old borderline diabetics. We need individual nutrition knowledge balanced against our body type. We can't say "everybody must do X," but we should say "People with A, B, C traits should really do X and Y to not be a health menace to society."
- cmarschner 11y agoCurrent research shows a link to the type of gut bacteria we carry around. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23970219 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23970219