Pete Vincent wrote:
> You can ingest all the nutrients you want, but if you have the
> "efficient" genetic disposition, eating lots of sugar and starch
> and not getting any exercise will give you typeII. Only genotypes
> from areas long accustomed to grain diet can cope with the high
> carbohydrate precentage of typical mass market processed foods.
>
> Processed foods have always had extra sugar and starch, because it's
> cheap content
Junk food has two aspects -- lack of nutrients and high content of
their antagonists including refined sugar and starch. Two sides of
the same coin -- I emphasized the one and you emphasize the other.
The importance of "genetic disposition" and "lack of exercise" is
widely exaggerated by the industry in order to blame the victims
("it's not the junk food the industry sells to maximize profits,
it's the victims who have the wrong genes and habits")
and to get public acceptance for genetic tinkering and other band-aids.
> In fact, foods with a greater percentage of fats, comprised of
> healthy essential fatty acids, will stimulate the metabolism to
> burn more calories and keep your weight lower. However, it
> cannot overcome persistent overindulgence in sugar and starch,
> ie donuts, pasta, pancakes with syrup, packaged breakfast cereal,
> all the components of the typical middle-american white-bread
> diet.
Again, it's not just the overindulgence in sugar and starch, but
the junk foods are highly deficient in the healthy essential fatty
acids (omega-3) while brimming with the unhealthy fats (saturated,
omega-6 and trans-fats which are antagonists of omega-3).
> The american obesity epidemic could probably be wiped out in
> a year by placing all high carbohydrate food points of sale
> at the top of fifteen flights of stairs.
It would be more efficient and practical to ban the unhealthy
ingredients that merely serve the profit-maximization of already
super-rich shareholders of both the "food" and pharma industries.
Those who blame genes and elevators are helping to perpetuate
their anti-social rip-off.
Chris
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