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Question: Is wheat/glutton bad because it is genetically mutated? As far as I know, there's no mutated stuff in Europe. So, it's ok to eat say imported pasta from Europe? Not even sure that is available... but hypothetically speaking.Also, Bud is bad but Heineken is good?
But, new wheat is supposed to be much worse than old wheat?
Correct -the old wheat is bad, the new wheat is much worse. It's like the difference between a filtered cigarette and a non-filtered cigarette. The filtered one is "better", but both are pretty bad for you. Both are toxic.
Sorry, as the saying goes you're entitled to your opinion but not to your own facts.
You can't argue with the results.
Yes, the standard "eat less and move more" argument. Usually uttered by people who have NEVER been seriously overweight for any significant length of time. You don't think that overweight people try to exercise and diet? Man, there is a shitload of money spent in this country on diet and exercise. And yet we, as a nation, get fatter and fatter. In fact, the data I've seen shows that we spend MORE time exercising now than we ever have in the past. Plus, that is the same advice people have been getting for 30 years. How's that working out so far? A better approach is to address hunger. Because it is a broken hunger mechanism (combined with a broken fat metabolism), which drives obesity. Your fat is just stored energy. You should be able to live off that stored energy with very little hunger (it's how we survived famines and ice ages in the past). But in obese people, there bodies do not "see" the fat, their bodies are "blind" to it. Every meal we eat, about half the calories are used for energy by the body immediately - this is for things like keeping our heart beating, our lungs breathing, our brains working, etc... We can only use half the calories up front like this. The 2nd half of the calories get shuffled off to our fat cells for temporary storage. After 2 hours, what SHOULD happen (and does happen in healthy people), is the body simply releases those fat calories so we can make it another 2 or more hours before needing food again.In people that gain weight, this DOES NOT happen. They get to the 2 hour mark, the body doesn't see the stored fat calories, but it still needs energy to run. So it sends out hunger signals. Because your heart, brain, lungs, cells, all need energy to run. So you eat again. And half the calories get used immediately by your body, the other half go to your fat cells. And the cycle repeats. THIS is how people gain weight. Now, tell me how "eating less and moving more" is gonna address these metabolic issues?
There's nothing wrong with exercising, and some people can use it and a healthy diet to maintain a target weight. Even so, you might want to experiment with a low-carb diet. You might find that you could focus more on enjoying the outdoors without turning every outing into a workout session.
Its all about consumption. If you are going pig out on wheat products you are going to get fat. When you get fat your body has harder time repairing and keeping healthy. We are just a bunch of pigs at the trough, that's all it is. Not to mention some people are allergic to gluten and don't know it. That worsens their health situation. Its just like anything else. It is all about moderation and learning healthy eating habits. It's dam hard but that basically will fix America's Fat Bastard problem.
No it isn't about moderation. It's about the crap we ingest. Do you really think obesity AND diabetes at this rate and scale (it's an EPIDEMIC) both here and other countries is just due to people overstuffing their faces and not walking it off? Seriously?
You describe an anomoly as I have never seen it happen. I've been involved in sports since 1966 and never seen this. We have 120 kids on our swim team, and since we joined in 1994, there has never been a fat kid on it. For the vast majority of people, simply getting off your ass will solve the problem. I objected to the title of the documentary, "The Men Who Made You Fat", because it is irresponsible to otherwise healthy people. According to the scenario you present, an actual health condition that makes you fat, the documentary also does not apply, because the health condition is at fault, not "The Men".
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Well just like I said above about opinion vs facts.
Nice to see this thread get fired up again. In skimming the past few pages, I see Food Inc & King Corn already mentioned. A more recent one that rocked my world is Forks Over Knives. http://www.forksoverknives.com/ You can watch the documentary on DVD or free streaming at the usual netflix, amazon, etc sites. The punch line is to go all Vegan / Plant based diet. Avoid Animal based foods as much as possible.I've got high Cholesterol (typically 260 to 280 range in years past) and a family history, on both sides, of heart disease, alzheimers, cancer, etc. I recently turned 50 and in an attempt to bring down the Cholesterol to a reasonable level and avoid the statins, I cut out 95% of dairy products and scaled back red meats & eggs to once a week. For the past 5 years my cholesterol has hovered in the 250 range. After watching Forks Over Knives this spring, I jumped in with both feet and went 98% Vegan for two months and had my Cholesterol checked. Total Cholesterol dropped from 259 down to 219. LDL went from 134 to 133. I am stoked. I also lost about 8 lbs. Hard to argue with those kinds of results, drug free.
