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This is not exactly true. Yes, there is a big variance in the way people process food. But people also usually exhibits common characteristics: - they don't e
by sametmax 10y ago
This is not exactly true.
Yes, there is a big variance in the way people process food. But people also usually exhibits common characteristics:
- they don't eat that much on average. While they may sometime eat a lot, if you what the quantity during one week, you'll see they eat less than most people.
- they eat slowly.
Those 2 things alone allow you to process a certain amount of unbalanced diet.
BTW, if anybody want to loose weight, the second one, eating slowing, on a table doing nothing else than eating, and chewing a lot, is a good starting point. You don't need to change your diet and you will loose quite some weight.
A 3rd thing is that indeed, somebody type will be able to eat a lot of things and not gain weight. But it's not a good thing.
Eating a bad diet will bring toxins in your body. The body usually process it with various organs. But if it can't because the amount is too important, it has 3 strategies:
- watering it down. Diluting toxins by holding a lot of water in the body. Typically the 4 pounds you take on Xmas. It's not fat, it's water.
- wrapping it in fat. Love handles are actually temporary storage for emergency that got a bit permanent. This is why people say it's the most toxic fat and the hardest to loose. Fat people fall into this category.
- using minerals to bring your blood PH up.
Thin people with a bad diet fall into this category. Now if you eat a lot of greens, you'll have the minerals to play this game and it's ok. But most people don't eat enough vegetable to allow that, so the body take minerals from various part of the body, including the bones. Instead of getting fat, you destroy your skeleton. It's not a good thing.
- snaily 10y agoDo you have a citation for your assertions - perhaps one with more specifics than unnamed "toxins"?
- sametmax 10y agoAgain I'm not a native english speaker, "toxins" is just a generic world I used to try to convey "anything the body can't process right now, how that is destroy it". "Some molecules are things that have nothing to do in the body (Maillard reaction output, antibiotic in the meat, pesticide in fruits, etc). Some are just regular things we can process but in a greater concentration that is healthy. Some are just natural waste of our regular body processes, but in a greater quantity than we can manage in our current health." I gave references on studies in another comment.
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- coldtea 10y agoThere are no such "toxins": https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxins-the-new-evil-humours/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxins-the-new-evil-humours... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-m... If you eat bad stuff you'll just bring empty calories and some crappy additives and such.
- Freestyler_3 10y agoBut I eat lots more and am not gaining or losing weight. When I do nothing and stay home for a week I will eat even more and still not gain. Which is frustrating because my ideal weight would be 80kg, but I cant get much above 75. It isn't high on my priority list so I have not tried many things. I just go around life and enjoy the food I want to enjoy, but my concious is there telling me "don't eat too much bad stuff, you want to stay healthy" Because even though I don't gain weight it is still bad to eat lots of fats etc. So yes I do eat plenty of green, and other variations of things. (also earlier I said "what feels good" I meant psychologically not physically)