Michelle Obama's School Lunch program: 4 million dollars worth of food thrown in the trash everyday
- Thread starter Max E.
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The claim was confirmed by Dr. Atkins 40 years ago."he said his fat patients lost more weight with bed rest"
“while unusually strenuous physical exercise slows the rate of loss (of fat)"
To be honest I'm surprised all this low carb knowledge is new to you, a martial artist and presumably one who puts high value on physical fitness. Anywhere you read nowadays the old calorie in calorie out paradigm is in retreat.
Look up Sam Feltham's n=1 experiment. He held his exercise constant, his calories consumed constant, but changed the composition of those calories and got markedly different results. This stuff is pretty widely known in the nutrition field and, for example, body builders have long known.
It's not new. I've actually done the atkins diet before and seen some significant results. I'm not arguing the fact that carbs make you fat, and tired, and more full. All I'm saying is that (lack of) exercise is a BIG reason why obesity rates are where they are. It's not the only reason, but it's a huge part. That's all I'm saying.
Your video on fructose was awesome. I really enjoyed it and will be passing it on to some friends and my wife. But I maintain that having a healthy balance of diet and exercise is key to maintaining sensible weight.
What I am against, however, is absolving fat people of the responsibility of their weight simply by letting them "blame manufacturers".
You're in luck, there are so many more videos available!
Fat Head is another good one, you can get it on itunes.
And I have a sample size of 1 also ... but one balances either side of the equation to keep weight constant ... you can vary calories in, calories expended or both of them and achieve a stable weight. Most everybody I know thinks it's more difficult to keep pounds off as you age, and it is, but it's possible and to me that's part of the challenge.
Yep, I need to spend more time on that stuff and less on Finance. But even though it was a great video, as I mentioned earlier, it really didn't discuss exercising (or the lack of exercise) in any way. It simply laid all the blame on fructose and sugar, and that's not accurate. That's not to say it was wrong, just not the whole story.
Exactly. It takes commitment. It also requires you to start with a body that is relatively in shape. So much more difficult to begin have the issue with aging when you're already 50 pounds overweight.
Yep. They can choose Doritos or an apple (or substitute any other healthy snack). They can substitute seafood for a quarter pounder or an all you can eat buffet. They can substitute yogurt or more fruit for a piece of cake, ice cream, cookies, ......
It gets more difficult as we age because we become more insulin resistant as we age. Sadly, muscle tissue does this faster and more so than adipose tissue. For most folks, the more they work out they more they are going to eat. So the problem (I assume exercise has some use, but for weight control only 20%. 80% is diet) is compostion of your food. Ask any bodybuilder about bulking and cutting and what dietary variable they adjust to achieve them.
Which brings us back to the choices we are giving our kids in the school cafeteria, and what they are likely to do with them. No one thinks most kids have the decision making power of an adult.