I agree that most of us put too much stock in the foods we eat (or
don't). I don't pay too much attention to what I eat, and I do eat
plenty of butter and fat in general (including nuts and meat). While
I've gained a little weight in the last decade, I attribute most of it
to not enough balance in food versus exercise. In the last year I
started paying more attention to getting out and about, and not eating
as many sweets (or bread). I think I'm down about 10 pounds in the last
year, and am now much closer to my historical weight that I had in my
20s, 30s and 40s.
bp
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On 1/22/2017 3:27 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
While I am sure that the mix of the food you eat has a significant
effect on your health, pretty sure almost all of us eat too much. And
I don’t think you can generalize too much because your genetics affect
how you metabolize your food. Eskimos can survive and thrive without
fruit and veggies. My wife is Swedish and wants nothing but meat. I
don’t ever want meat.
I wish I could just cut back. It doesn’t seem like I eat too much but
the numbers say I do. Most days I don’t have breakfast, I have a 300
cal microwave meal and then one smallish plate of home cooked in the
evening. Not lots of snacks. Still the pounds are up, the
triglycerides are up, the blood sugar is up.
Perhaps meth is the answer. Have been watching Breaking Bad straight
through since the holidays. Just started the final season yesterday.
*From:* Bill Prince
*Sent:* Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:20 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] [OT: Off the wall discussion]
You ought to read "/The Big Fat Surprise/" by Nina Teicholz
(https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/1451624425).
Her contention is that a guy by the name of Ancel Keys started it all
when he published a study in the 1950s called "The seven country
study". In it he asserted that the so-called "Mediterranean diet" was
the key to good health. Her research contends that the seven country
study was cherry picked from a study of about 30 countries. Keys went
on a multi-decade crusade to sell his theory, and a bunch of other
questionable dietary studies.
The American diet changed from a largely meat-centric (and higher in
fat) diet to the allegedly healthy low-fat diet of today.
Part of her analysis looks at the remarkably successful Atkins diet
that turns the Mediterranean diet on its head.
bp
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On 1/22/2017 2:55 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
The more medical research I do, the more history I read, the more I'm
rapidly coming to the belief that the increase in processed sugar in
the 1940s and beyond in American foods has had a hugely negative
effect on our current social, mental health, medical, and political
issues. Not that it's the root cause (way too many factors), but it's
definitely a huge contributing factor.
Has anybody else looked up any research on this lately?
