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Your wife is one of the few pedigreed nutrionists who “knows” that! Sadly most nutritionists are overweight themselves and continue to advocate people consume w
by sbenitoj 9y ago
Your wife is one of the few pedigreed nutrionists who “knows” that! Sadly most nutritionists are overweight themselves and continue to advocate people consume whole grains, low-fat dairy, and fruit to lose weight/be healthier. Kudos to your wife for ignoring the massive amount of BS most doctors and nutritionists are inculcated with!
- teach 9y agoThere's nothing wrong with whole grains or fruit. The book "Wheat Belly" is terrible science. Also, my wife is a registered dietitian with a PhD, not a "nutritionist".
- equippan 9y agoWhat is wrong with whole grains or fruit? I have never heard of that before.
- why-el 9y agoNothing, I think the parent is wrong or misspoke. The advice is usually "substitute bad processed sugar with fruit", which is what Dr Lustig has advocated for the last decade. Of course too much fruit is itself bad, since the fiber can only do so much.
- taysic 9y agoWhy would too much fruit be bad? This is sadly a myth that gets formed when “sugar is bad” is oversimplified.
- brianwawok 9y agoA balanced diet is important. Fruit only covers certain parts. And yes it also has a bit much sugar. Replace 80% of your fruit with veggies and you will be better off.
- didibus 9y agoI agree, but most people should start by replacing most of their food with fruits. All their carbs and sugars should come from fruits first, and once they master that, they can try replacing some of it with veggies.
- brianwawok 9y agoNot sure this is a good way to diet, do you have any peer reviewed literature that says a diet of mostly fruit is a good way to lose weight?
- didibus 9y agoSorry, didn't mean mostly fruit. I meant to say that it's best to start by replacing all your sugars and most of your carbs by whole fruits instead of veggies. And I say that only because it'll be easier to achieve, and still better then the alternative processed foods. You should also have fish/meat, nuts and seeds for proteins and fat. And if you can, do have veggies instead of sugar rich whole fruits. But its hard enough eating healthy, I've found that the first thing to do is focus on eating better and not the healthiest. So fruits are the best deserts, and are better then most snacky thing people eat between meals. Yet they're easier to adopt in your diet because most people find them tastier. For example, I see some people who when hungry and looking to snack down a whole bag of chips, or a whole box of oreos without thinking. But who'd mentally find it excessive to down a whole container of strawberries. Changing that attitude is a good place to start, and eating a whole strawberry container instead of a box of oreo is a pretty easy and simple change. Easier then just not snacking at all, or then eating coliflower instead.
- KGIII 9y agoToo much of anything is bad, even exercise.
- jldugger 9y agoMostly too many calories. Fruit isn't 'bad' as much as 'it's really hard to consume so many calories with all that fiber in the way'. But if you process fruit by removing that fiber, as say fruit juice, you're easily consuming tons of calories.
- sbenitoj 9y agoWhole grains are one of the biggest sources of dietary inflammation. There isn’t something inherently wrong with grains, it’s that they’re not even close to the grains we evolved to eat anymore (at least, not in the U.S. — grains in mainland Europe are generally fine, unless you have an issue with gluten/grains such as celiacs, Crohns, or IBS). Source: Tons but the book Wheat Belly is one of the most succinct. Also, every trainer who is even half-way decent at transforming clients tells them to avoid grains, don’t discount what people are ACTUALLY doing to get results, even if a definitive study hasn’t been done on it (although many studies have been done, see Wheat Belly). Fruit falls under the category of “healthy, if you’re healthy.” If you’re overweight and inactive, and you want to lose weight, then you should not be eating fruit, or any high-sugar, high-carb food for that matter. Once you’re lean and physically active, it’s fine.
- QAPereo 9y agoCitations for this crap?
- sbenitoj 9y agoHm, did you read my comment? I said source: Wheat Belly (book by Dr William Davis), but also my experience working with clients and with trainers who are experts at transforming clients from fat to fit.
- QAPereo 9y agoCitations, not a diet books and anecdotes. Edit: hate my tone all you like, but keep in mind if this weren’t fringe bullshit I’d be met with more than downvotes and attitude.
- sbenitoj 9y agoWheat Belly is not a diet book, it’s a summary of the science out there on grains with 100s of scientific citations. Yes it has diet recommendations at the end of it.
- curun1r 9y agoThe quibble could also be with the "low-fat" portion of the advice. Grouping all fats into a single category is about as useful as grouping fruits and vegetables together. There's nuance to which fats to eat, but they're mostly an important part of a healthy diet, despite being demonized for decades now. Low-fat and non-fat dairy products are little better than another source of sugar (lactose) since much of the healthy portion of dairy doesn't get absorbed without the fat. Avoiding omega-6-rich oils is probably a good thing for most people, since most don't get enough omega-3 to balance out, but beyond that and crap like trans-fats, fats are something to embrace not shy away from. And, what's more, getting off the beaten track of traditional oils can add a lot of interesting flavor to foods. Beyond olive oil, which is pretty common, coconut, avocado, walnut and macadamia nut oil have all become favorites of mine and I find the tastes of the food I cook/prepare so much more interesting than when I used to use corn/soybean/canola oils or tried to avoid fats all together.
- sbenitoj 9y agoAgreed! Also lard, tallow, and grass-fed butter. Nature doesn’t make bad fats, factories do.
- PerfectElement 9y agoYou misinterpreted what the parent said. Whole grains and fruits are not unbound fructose.
- bunderbunder 9y agoFWIW, this could be because nutritionist : dietitian :: toothitian : dentist.