“No, my original post was in response to your blanket assertion, in response to someone else’s comment about bacon, that eating meat would necessarily inhibit weight loss. Nothing in the title to this thread, the original article or your comment qualified the discussion to those suffering from “metabolic syndrome”.”
You seem to be laboring under a misunderstanding. The original comments were:
““is the all bacon diet I have dreamed of?—
“No. The proteins in meats convert to glucose in the blood raising blood sugars. So, meat/protein must be limited to only adequate levels.”
You came into the discussion and tried to say my comment was false because of your personal experiences with weight loss. What you seem to be missing here is the fact that you obviously 1. did not consume enough protein from eating enough bacon and other proteins and carbohydrates together for a prolonged enough period of time to induce metabolic syndrome as a consequence of the glucose derived from the proteins and carbohydrates to start the causal chain of fatty liver, fatty pancreas, insulin insensitivity, increasing blood glucose, increasing insulin, further insulin insensitivity, lipase inhibition, fat burning inhibition, progressive weight gain, obesity, cortisol stimulation, further insulin insensitivity, further elevated blood glucose, onset of Type II Diabetes mellitus, and so forth. It all starts with a diet high in glucose that prompts the development of the fatty liver and fatty pancreas. You are likely unaffected in part due to genetics giving you a higher sensitivity to insulin and lipase control than the general population. That brings us to where eyou wrote:
“a specialized condition that only applies to a limited number of people”
This is in no way a specialized condition. That is one of the important points to be learned in these videos. Insulin insensitivity and the way in which the lipase control sets up so-called metabolic syndrome for the retention of body fat is actually a survival mechanism built into all human beings as a mechanism to cope with starvation. The only “specialized condition” involved in these metabolic disorders is the historically unprecedented quantities of carbohydrates that have been included in our diets of almost all kinds since the early 20th Century and super-sized even further since about 1991. The percentage of the population being affected by diabetes in the U.S. Alone has been tripling, and the number of people in the U.S. who have already entered into metabolic syndrome due to overexposure to carbohydrates in their diets is now the vast majority of the entire U.S. population of more than 300 million people. The number of people who are not currently in a stage of metabolic syndrome in the U.S. is now the MINORITY of our population. If you are not in metabolic syndrome, you are part of a very fortunate minority now.
Nonsense. I've eaten a gram of protein for each pound of body weight daily for the last 15 years. That's more than 90% of the population consumes. If I don't eat enough protein to trigger this then virtually nobody does.