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Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns? Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.
by hedora 3y ago
Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns?
Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.
- belltaco 3y agoPeople also ate out less and had more time to cook meals at home instead of eating highly processed foods bought from supermarkets.
- doubled112 3y agoI made countless "boredom orders" that were nothing but junk. I can't be the only one.
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- lotsofpulp 3y ago“Cooking” at home does not necessarily mean healthier than restaurants. Home cooking for most people uses tons of sauces/cheeses/creams/butter/chocolate/breads/etc loaded with sugar and sat fats.
- flagrant_taco 3y agoI don't think anyone defends sugar as good for you, but there is a lot of research showing that dietary saturated fats can actually be good for you. Especially if the concern is diabetes, ketogenic diets can be extremely beneficial as the body is burning primarily fat rather than glucose and glycogen.
- astrange 3y agoThe crank diet influencers who were previously into saturated fats being good sometimes now think sugar is good because of the influence of a dead crank diet influencer named Ray Peat.
- flagrant_taco 3y agoI don't know who Ray Peatis but there are cranks on both sides of any issue. To point to one example that you may have seen and use that to discredit all others isn't doing anyone any good. I ate keto for a couple years and still generally fall closer to that bucket, though I'm not dealing with any health issues and started eating some breads and carbs again. All the researchers, dieticians, and excercise/fitness coaches I learned from are all still agreed that sugar is bad for you as far as I'm aware. I haven't heard any of them pivot towards saying there are benefits from any meaningful intake of sugars.
- 876978095789789 3y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291812/ > A high-fat, high-saturated fat diet decreases insulin sensitivity without changing intra-abdominal fat in weight-stable overweight and obese adults https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/63/7/2356/34338/Overfeeding-Polyunsaturated-and-Saturated-Fat https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/63/7/2356/3433... > Despite comparable weight gain after 49 days, this double-blind trial showed that overeating energy from PUFAs prevented deposition of liver fat and visceral and total fat compared with SFAs. Excess energy from SFAs caused an increase of liver fat compared with PUFAs. Further, the inhibitory effect of PUFAs on ectopic fat was accompanied by an augmented increase in lean tissue and less total body fat deposition compared with SFAs. Thus, the type of fat in the diet seems to be a novel and important determinant of liver fat accumulation, fat distribution, and body composition during moderate weight gain. We also observed fatty acid–dependent differences in adipose tissue gene expression. The significant decrease in pancreatic fat in both groups during weight gain was an unexpected finding that needs confirmation due to the low amounts of pancreatic fat in this lean population.
- timeon 3y agoObviously most people do not need that but sugar is good for quick energy.
- wolverine876 3y ago> Home cooking for most people uses tons of sauces/cheeses/creams/butter/chocolate/breads/etc loaded with sugar and sat fats. A restaurant chef once told me, 'not as much as we do'. I was in a city that required chain restaurants to put sodium quantities (and maybe other data) on the menues. The numbers were eye-watering.
- grvdrm 3y agoFormer restaurant chef. Indeed, that’s my experience. Especially butter. I’ve never seen so much butter go into a dish. Another that flies under the radar: ingredient quality. Example that comes to mind: the cooking oil for sauce/fry/etc is garbage.
- satvikpendem 3y agoFat is flavor, after all.
- grvdrm 3y agoI don’t hate it! Key at home is to not overuse the stuff that’s bad for you and focus on high-quality stuff (as best you can tell)
- wolverine876 3y agoThe oil in homes or the oil in restaurants is that bad?
- singularity2001 3y agoEspecially when “cooking” means heating up frozen pizza.
- tamimio 3y agoIn general, it is: I know the ingredients, I know what’s in there, I know there is no old oils is used, I know no MSG is used, or soy or other non healthy ingredients, I know the source of the meat, I know my salad is fresh and wasn’t one of those refrigerated bagged ones, Among others. And that’s compared to restaurants we are not even discussing fast food industry.. not to mention how over-priced plus the 25%tip.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoBased on what I see in most people’s shopping carts, what you describe is far from the norm.
- myko 3y agoHow so? Ate more healthily at home, walked more, got outside more generally. Physical health likely improved with lockdowns.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoResearch from all over the world indicates that this isn't the case. At least, not generally. It may be the case for you.
- clipsy 3y agoWhat research?
- haldujai 3y agoLifestyle related research, especially diet, is often low quality but as you asked: Physical Activity: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5/2235 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5/2235 https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/bmjosem/7/1/e000960.full.pdf https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/bmjosem/7/1/e000960.full.... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003687022001685 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000368702... Diet: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/15/3494 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/15/3494 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-021-00897-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-021-00897-3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629622000601 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016762962...
- clipsy 3y agoThanks, that's a lot of reading to get through but it's interesting that we see such changes in activity and diet versus the OP article's finding that major health statistics haven't noticeably moved.
- haldujai 3y agoDid they say that? Are you referring to this section or did I miss something, I mostly skimmed the JAMA article: > In our study, baseline clinical characteristics of patients with incident type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes were not different during nonpandemic and pandemic years. This is consistent with other studies showing similarity in age, HbA1c, and body mass index among patients with incident diabetes before and during the pandemic. If this is the section you mean that's not discordant, what they're saying is that people with diabetes have similar characteristics during non pandemic and pandemic years. It doesn't comment on whether more people in general have increased BMI therefore placing them at risk for T2DM.
- watwut 3y agoOn the other hand you had more free time, because there was no commute. My fitness went UP due to homeoofice and lockdowns. I also started to eat healthier, simply because I had more and easier control over what I eat.