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I've seen it. His data shows it's the increase of calorie consumption over time. This was mostly sugar (Honey, table sugar, HFCS are all around half fructose),
by jp555 13y ago
I've seen it. His data shows it's the increase of calorie consumption over time. This was mostly sugar (Honey, table sugar, HFCS are all around half fructose), but it was the sustained increase in energy intake over years that's the cause. Even if fructose has some special role in promoting more of a fat-storage bias in metabolism, it's due to eating too much, not due to the fructose; eating less (or scaling activity with food intake) solves both problems.
- natrius 13y agoWhat if eating fructose makes you eat more? That has certainly been the case for me.
- jp555 13y agohow do you know that? There are so many possible confounding variables that make that claim doubtful.
- natrius 13y agoWhen I avoid carbs, I lose weight. I don't get cravings for the foods that normally led me to overeat. It's an anecdote, so feel free to take it with a grain of sugar, but Taubes and Lustig improved my life a great deal.
- jp555 13y agoEvery gram of stored carbs (glycogen) gets stored with ~3g of water. By cutting carbs you use up stored carbs and rapidly lose this water-weight. This is why low-carb diets work so well at first, But it's not fat you're losing.
- natrius 13y agoThe first week or two of weight loss is indeed mostly water, but I weight 40 pounds less than when I started avoiding carbs. It works for me.