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Perfectly Calm, Dude
What Really Makes Us Fat
In a recent thread I pointed out a book by Gary Taubes called Why We Get Fat.
In NY Times this week, he points to a study that just came that has really interesting implications.
What Really Makes Us Fat
[QUOTE]The Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a clinical trial by Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children
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the Sho Kosugi of ISH
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
inactivity and eating too much crap food
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Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
carbs make you fat-wow what a controversial conclusion, who knew
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2012 I rep flatulence
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
cliffs?
Americans just don't move enough. IMO
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(◣_◢) CoLa
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
I'm confused; how is eating low-fat a controversial conclusion to weight loss?
I've seen some other studies that show it is primarily sugar that leads to health issues/weight gain/obesity. My girlfriends dad looked into this study and experimented with not eating sugar but still eating fat and he ended up losing weight; as did some others i know who tried it out.
Apparently sugar is a toxin that should be regulated on a level that rivals alcohol.
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All For *One* For All
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
A calorie is a calorie I feel is the simplest way to lose weight. If you watch your calories in versus calories out you should probably lose weight in that time frame. The biggest reasons where getting more obese than every is they ware our society is designed. Everything is automated.
100 years ago we walked to our jobs, had more manual labor jobs, we broke a bike to our job
Today people drive everywhere sitting on their asses drinking and eating in the morning.
A study was down that back in the 1960s almost 70%+ of kids walked to school. Today only 5% to 10% of kids in schools walk to school.
20+ years ago kids got out and played and exercised. F*ck I remember going out and playing baseball in a church parking lot 3-4 days a week for a few hours. Shit was fun as hell.
Today kids are engrossed into their screens. They're watching their TV screen, their computer screen, their iPod screen, their iPad screen, etc.
Fast food is EVERYWHERE today. Human instinct is to eat high calorie content that is dense in calories, when we were hunters and gatherers this was in our nature back then because meals were way more scarce. It's hard to turn that psychological feeling off and to cut back on calories.
It's so much easier to go through the drive-thru and pay for a 5-10 minute meal than it is to go to the store and pick up the food and decide what you want.
My opinion...
More advanced cultures that are "westernized" are becoming fan and obese because our society is geared towards making money off obesity. The US government pays farmers to only grow corn and grain farms which account for high fructose corn syrup and other horrible un-nutrional things for you. While farmers who grow a variety of fruits and vegetables get paid less. Because of those demand for this product that's cheap and easy to produce we take the easy way out of providing our bodies energy. Which is to reach for the big-mac versus making the food ourselves.
Personally I cut down on my calorie intake by 300-500 a day and upped my exercising to running 30 minutes a day. That's all i changed. I didn't keep and exact count, but I eat portions better while drinking only water during 90% of the time and lost 60 pounds.
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All For *One* For All
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Originally Posted by Cowboy Thunder
cliffs?
Americans just don't move enough. IMO
Agreed.
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2012 I rep flatulence
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Originally Posted by Loneshot
I'm confused; how is eating low-fat a controversial conclusion to weight loss?
I've seen some other studies that show it is primarily sugar that leads to health issues/weight gain/obesity. My girlfriends dad looked into this study and experimented with not eating sugar but still eating fat and he ended up losing weight; as did some others i know who tried it out.
Apparently sugar is a toxin that should be regulated on a level that rivals alcohol.
No doubt. The "fat free" stuff is bullshit. Did you see the 60 minutes special on Sugar being a toxin?
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(◣_◢) CoLa
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Originally Posted by Cowboy Thunder
No doubt. The "fat free" stuff is bullshit. Did you see the 60 minutes special on Sugar being a toxin?
No, i had been reading some articles and a bunch of user-info on the rogan board. There was also a video that i didn't watch that may have been that which you're referring to. I need to watch it asap though.
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All For *One* For All
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Originally Posted by Cowboy Thunder
No doubt. The "fat free" stuff is bullshit. Did you see the 60 minutes special on Sugar being a toxin?
Sugars are bad for you if you consume too much. Typically 25-35g a day is ideal, but people are consuming like double and triple that. Which onsets diabetes and puts you at risk because it makes you insulin resistant.
It's like the schools that did away with pop machines. Well those same pop machines that have soda...well those soda companies own the sugary energy drink/oj companies too. Those have just as many calories/sugar in them as pop. Only it has vitamin C in it. So you get vitamin C, but you still get just as fat off of it versus pop.
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2012 I rep flatulence
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I dunno Meticode.
I am under the belief that natural sugars are fine.
I don't believe 100% Grape, Apple, Orange, etc. juice made people obese.
Pop is just on a another level with how your body breaks it down.
My philosophy on nutrition is to eat as natural as possible and cook real meals as my grandparents did. Aka, I spend way too much money on food.
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Extra Cheese
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Sitting on your ass all day, eating Taco Bell and drinking soda, and generally being a piece of shit person is what's making you fat.
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Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Genetics also play a major role
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Perfectly Calm, Dude
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
So which of the commenters so far have actually read the article?
Because some of you are posting the exact opposite of what it says.
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2012 I rep flatulence
Re: What Really Makes Us Fat
Originally Posted by KevinNYC
So which of the commenters so far have actually read the article?
Because some of you are posting the exact opposite of what it says.
Ok, I finally did.
So that was a really long winded way of saying in a one month trial they concluded that "The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the more easily we remain lean. "
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