I have read a lot of the posts and advice on here and people are saying it's all very hard to determine what to eat and what not to eat. It isn't hard - it's very easy.
If the food has been processed in any way, don't eat it. We don't need
to eat a majority of the foods that we slam down our throats every day.
We don't need juice, dairy, chips, sweets, ice cream etc.
People think that juice is healthy. They say there is a lot of sugar in fruit so it's bad for you. NO. Fruit has natural sugar, yes, but it also has fiber and nutrients in it that counteract the sugar when we eat it, so the sugar is still there, but our body can use it positively.
Here's one thing most of you probably don't know. Our bodies can't detect fructose. There is fructose in basically every packaged food. We are getting fatter as a race not because of the fat we eat, but because of the sugar. Our ancestors from hundreds of years ago didn't eat chocolate chips, and ice cream, so why do we need to?
Humans have been consuming fat since the year dot. Therefore our bodies know the fat and it can use the fat accordingly. We find it hard to eat too much fat because our bodies have an 'off switch' for fat - it detects when we have consumed enough fat and we feel full. The Human body has NO 'off switch' for sugar. You won't feel full from just eating sugar, you just start to feel sick.
If you crave sweet food, then eat fruit or nuts. Dried fruit is not good to snack on, unless you've dried it yourself and not added anything to it. Full fat milk is fine to have in moderation, as lactose is detected by the enzymes in the liver, so the body can deal with it.
Everything I have said here, and everything else that I'll say on this site is fact, so don't have a go at me because none of this is my opinion - it's fact. If you have trouble understanding why we shouldn't eat sugar, then all you need to do is read "Sweet Poison - Why Sugar Makes Us Fat" by David Gillespie. If you read that book, you will never need to go on a diet again for the rest of your life. No, cutting sugar out of your diet is not 'going on a diet', it is merely CORRECTING your diet!
Please comment me back on what I've written here!
People think that juice is healthy. They say there is a lot of sugar in fruit so it's bad for you. NO. Fruit has natural sugar, yes, but it also has fiber and nutrients in it that counteract the sugar when we eat it, so the sugar is still there, but our body can use it positively.
Here's one thing most of you probably don't know. Our bodies can't detect fructose. There is fructose in basically every packaged food. We are getting fatter as a race not because of the fat we eat, but because of the sugar. Our ancestors from hundreds of years ago didn't eat chocolate chips, and ice cream, so why do we need to?
Humans have been consuming fat since the year dot. Therefore our bodies know the fat and it can use the fat accordingly. We find it hard to eat too much fat because our bodies have an 'off switch' for fat - it detects when we have consumed enough fat and we feel full. The Human body has NO 'off switch' for sugar. You won't feel full from just eating sugar, you just start to feel sick.
If you crave sweet food, then eat fruit or nuts. Dried fruit is not good to snack on, unless you've dried it yourself and not added anything to it. Full fat milk is fine to have in moderation, as lactose is detected by the enzymes in the liver, so the body can deal with it.
Everything I have said here, and everything else that I'll say on this site is fact, so don't have a go at me because none of this is my opinion - it's fact. If you have trouble understanding why we shouldn't eat sugar, then all you need to do is read "Sweet Poison - Why Sugar Makes Us Fat" by David Gillespie. If you read that book, you will never need to go on a diet again for the rest of your life. No, cutting sugar out of your diet is not 'going on a diet', it is merely CORRECTING your diet!
Please comment me back on what I've written here!
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Wow, talk about misinformation. Sugar does not make you fat. I don't care about GI, or insulin, or anything else. Sugar cannot, does not and will not make anyone gain fat.
The only way to get fat is by eating more calories than your body needs. You can eat absolutely no sugar, and low GI foods, and if you eat more calories than your body needs, you will get fat.
As study after study has shown, there is no "metabolic advantage" to low carbohydrate diets.
ReplyYou are right Barry, sugar doesn't make you fat, however it doesn't fill you up either. Therefore if you eat foods high in sugar, you won't stay full for long, thus you eat more and more. That is the danger of sugar.
However, eating foods containing fat, you will feel full after a small amount of them and stay fuller for longer, thus consuming less calories than if you ate the high sugar, low fat foods and then went back for seconds and thirds trying to feel full.
Yes, people should watch their calorie intake, but the general public are extremely ignorant about calories and how much food is too much. Thus they simply eat when they are hungry. Which is why the high sugar diets that is prevalent around the Western world does make people fat.
ReplyExactly! Weight gain is caused by an excess of calories regardless of where they come from. If I eat 1000 calories worth of Snickers per day and nothing else, I'll lose weight (although I'd feel terrible). If I ate 3000 calories of chicken breast and broccoli, I'd gain. Eating for health and eating for weight loss aren't necessarily the same thing.
ReplyOh, and I agree that it's easy to eat right. It's just not fun. That's why most people don't do it.
You're obviously an advocate for so-called paleolithic eating. That's fine. Don't pretend it has any advantages over a diet that includes "processed foods".
I eat (among other things) bagels, fruity pebbles, ice cream, pizza, spaghetti, milk, and I am about 10% body fat. I used to be 20%+ body fat. My blood work went from awful to perfect. There's nothing - I repeat - nothing wrong with eating processed foods in moderation.
ReplyPlease give the last 2 minutes of my life back. The only thing worse than ignorant writing is arrogant and ignorant writing.
No sir, your opinion is not fact.
Can I unsubscribe from just the community posts?
ReplyIf you're talking about, Barry, don't bother. Any sort of comment about his way of writing and expressing his opinions bounces right off.
ReplyCome on Drew, hang in there....we need you to stay and bring "balance to the force"..LOL
ReplyUm, ooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkk. Your body can't "detect" fructose? Yes it can, my friend. The problem arises from consuming extra sugar along with the rest of our food...this is the whole HFCS problem. It's not the HFCS that's the inherent problem; it's that people consume a lot of foods with HFCS in them and it adds extra calories that we don't need. And when people consume beverages with sugars in them, your body doesn't recognize "fullness" but it absorbs the sugar anyway. You can't get fat unless you're eating more calories than you expend, pure and simple.
ReplyProtein also keeps you feeling full for longer and contains less calories than fat. I try and eat a low fat diet, not because there's anything wrong with fat, but rather because I want my calories for the day to stretch further. It's also why I limit my sugars.
But I include fat, protein AND carbohydrates in my diet, because all of it is necessary for nutrition.
ReplyI agree with calories in, calories out BUT, I have seen a big difference in the way my body looks based on the make-up of those calories. When I changed the foods that made up my daily food program, even though calories were similar, my body made a big about face to looking leaner & better. So, Barry, maybe you are a lucky one that can eat anything you want & not gain weight. BUT, me, I exercise very hard, I eat healthy 85-90% of the time to get the results I get. Eating like you but for the calories that meet my body's needs does not result in my body looking like it does now.
Every body is different so you need to work with what is right for you. I eat a healthy combination of protein, fat & carbs based on what I have found works for me. I have had to change things along the way & still do....
I just don't think it is "what works for me works for you thing". One size does not fit all.
ReplySince he seems disliked, I don't want to defend Barry, but he didn't say he ate whatever he wanted -- he said processed foods "in moderation" were fine. Who knows what that means? If you ate one bagel every few weeks, I don't think it would destroy all of your hard work.
ReplyThe problem is people consume too much sugar and thus digest too many calories.
ReplyA 20oz sugared cola can have 340 calories.
340 calories X 365 days = 124100 calories per year.
If not burnt off that is over 35 pounds of fat.
Even 100 extra calories a day yields 10 pounds of fat per year.
I too had believed the FACT that a calorie is a calorie, until I read Steve Pavlina's blog where he conducts a 30-day raw food challenge. He wrote a detailed log every day and although he ate more daily calories than before the challenge, he lost weight and increased muscle endurance (he was not selling anything either). It's an interesting read. I don't think anyone can say we know all there is to know about food and its effect on the human body.
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