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A good article that echos some things I've read here and there already. I recently started walking 3x a day and avoiding carbohydrates whenever possible; I alw

A good article that echos some things I've read here and there already. I recently started walking 3x a day and avoiding carbohydrates whenever possible; I always knew that the exercise wasn't for the weight loss, but I was surprised to read it did not impact metabolic rates. It is pretty crazy, the amount of crap food we get presented with; both ones considered "healthy snacks" and the blatant unhealthy ones. Even crazier when you trace back the parent companies and there's only really a handfull of them behind the scenes of most brands out there. Feels like prime material for a last week tonight episode

ozim 11y ago
Hey it would impact metabolic rates if you would be body building. More muscle = more calories to feed them. In article you can see as well that weight loss was connected with slower metabolic rate. But walking as written in article is easily filled up with couple cookies. Other thing is I don't like term "losing weight" it is much better to lose fat and even gain weight building some muscle.
- meesterdude 11y ago
  Well, i think thats where diet comes in. when i go for walks, i don't think about eating a cookie afterwards :) though I do love me some chocolate chip cookies, they're strictly a no-no. And to me, lose weight == lose fat. Honestly, I'm not even watching the scales anyway; i'm just taking a known good path behaviorally and letting the results pan out on their own.
chipsy 11y ago
The deadly one for me is dairy. It's omnipresent and I've attributed its component parts to symptoms ranging from brain fog to elevated heart rate to inflamed joints. Fortunately whey seems to be an exception, so protein shakes are OK. Cut out dairy and avoid most sugars, and I have very few remaining issues. But I also admit my experience is personalized; everyone probably has foods that they aren't compatible with, but can tolerate "enough" to dismiss for a single meal - and people who never encounter long-term issues just happened to get lucky.
mrbriskly 11y ago
Agreed, John Oliver would have a field day with this.
- thirdsun 11y ago
  Last Week Tonight: Sugar - https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs Should be close enough.
austinjp 11y ago
Avoiding carbohydrates? How about vegetables and pulses? Plenty of carbs in them. Okay, sans snark.... avoiding refined carbohydrates perhaps?
- FooBarWidget 11y ago
  What vegetables, besides starchy ones like rice and potatos, contain "plenty of carbs"?
  - austinjp 11y ago
    Ya I was being overly snarky, apologies. May be 5% carbohydrate in most veg, but there's only 10% in potatoes anyway. My issue is with the term "carbohydrates" being used as shorthand for "bad stuff". It does seem that simple carbohydrates should be consumed in moderation, maybe not at all. But generally any diet should include carbohydrates. The term "avoiding carbohydrates" is ambiguous and usually means "avoiding starches and/or refined sugar".
    - digi_owl 11y ago
      Refined sugar is probably the devil in the details in all of this. As i have come to understand it, sugar in easily digestible form do not show up much in nature. Thus our ancestors likely developed a instinct for binge eating once such a source have been found (ripe berries etc). So once refined sugar comes along it does a number on our sub-consciousness.
      - ddebernardy 11y ago
        Don't miss the fiber though. If I understood Lustig's sugar video right, fiber helps to keep the fructose in your bowels, where it feeds your gut bacteria instead of getting metabolized similarly to alcohol in your liver. That and vitamins makes eating a berry healthy, but not a candy bar.
        digi_owl 11y ago
thirdsun 11y ago
Should be close enough - John Oliver on Sugar: https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs
agumonkey 11y ago
I'd love to see a RandallMunroe `what if processed food was reduced to almost zero`. How many things would disappear (factories, their consumption and polluants, shops, pesticides), how much healthier would we be, wealthier, how much free time doctor would have for worthy cases. The whole shebang.
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ozim 11y ago

Hey it would impact metabolic rates if you would be body building. More muscle = more calories to feed them. In article you can see as well that weight loss was connected with slower metabolic rate. But walking as written in article is easily filled up with couple cookies. Other thing is I don't like term "losing weight" it is much better to lose fat and even gain weight building some muscle.

meesterdude 11y ago
Well, i think thats where diet comes in. when i go for walks, i don't think about eating a cookie afterwards :) though I do love me some chocolate chip cookies, they're strictly a no-no. And to me, lose weight == lose fat. Honestly, I'm not even watching the scales anyway; i'm just taking a known good path behaviorally and letting the results pan out on their own.

chipsy 11y ago

The deadly one for me is dairy. It's omnipresent and I've attributed its component parts to symptoms ranging from brain fog to elevated heart rate to inflamed joints. Fortunately whey seems to be an exception, so protein shakes are OK. Cut out dairy and avoid most sugars, and I have very few remaining issues. But I also admit my experience is personalized; everyone probably has foods that they aren't compatible with, but can tolerate "enough" to dismiss for a single meal - and people who never encounter long-term issues just happened to get lucky.

mrbriskly 11y ago

Agreed, John Oliver would have a field day with this.

thirdsun 11y ago
Last Week Tonight: Sugar - https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs Should be close enough.

austinjp 11y ago

Avoiding carbohydrates? How about vegetables and pulses? Plenty of carbs in them. Okay, sans snark.... avoiding refined carbohydrates perhaps?

FooBarWidget 11y ago
What vegetables, besides starchy ones like rice and potatos, contain "plenty of carbs"?
- austinjp 11y ago
  Ya I was being overly snarky, apologies. May be 5% carbohydrate in most veg, but there's only 10% in potatoes anyway. My issue is with the term "carbohydrates" being used as shorthand for "bad stuff". It does seem that simple carbohydrates should be consumed in moderation, maybe not at all. But generally any diet should include carbohydrates. The term "avoiding carbohydrates" is ambiguous and usually means "avoiding starches and/or refined sugar".
  - digi_owl 11y ago
    Refined sugar is probably the devil in the details in all of this. As i have come to understand it, sugar in easily digestible form do not show up much in nature. Thus our ancestors likely developed a instinct for binge eating once such a source have been found (ripe berries etc). So once refined sugar comes along it does a number on our sub-consciousness.
    - ddebernardy 11y ago
      Don't miss the fiber though. If I understood Lustig's sugar video right, fiber helps to keep the fructose in your bowels, where it feeds your gut bacteria instead of getting metabolized similarly to alcohol in your liver. That and vitamins makes eating a berry healthy, but not a candy bar.
      - digi_owl 11y ago

thirdsun 11y ago

Should be close enough - John Oliver on Sugar: https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs https://youtu.be/MepXBJjsNxs

agumonkey 11y ago

I'd love to see a RandallMunroe `what if processed food was reduced to almost zero`. How many things would disappear (factories, their consumption and polluants, shops, pesticides), how much healthier would we be, wealthier, how much free time doctor would have for worthy cases. The whole shebang.

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