>I was skinny as a rail until I was 20 or 21, then bam! Something changed. I couldn’t reduce my intake enough to lose weight. I had to run at least 18 to 24 miles per week, ***and*** reduce my intake of food to preposterous levels to lose weight at keep it off. Neither reduction of intake nor exercise alone sufficed—and there’s something fundamentally wrong with that. There has to be a third—or third, fourth, and fifth—element at work there.<
When you’re young, your pancreas can take care of the carbohydrate-laden food you eat. But at adulthood, many people develop a condition called insulin resistance. This condition causes your body to turn the starchy stuff you eat into fat instead of into energy.
In a large percentage of the population, insulin resistance leads to type 2 diabetes in later life.
Read Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories for a more thorough explanation.
How many fat quadriplegics have you seen? Weight loss results are often astounding when you can't sneak extra calories.
I could put away the food with no problems up until the age of forty. I think the biggest problem is, due to wear and tear, I can't really exercise as intensly as I had in the past.
“But at adulthood, many people develop a condition called insulin resistance. This condition causes your body to turn the starchy stuff you eat into fat instead of into energy. In a large percentage of the population, insulin resistance leads to type 2 diabetes in later life.”
I am very grateful for that information.
I am furious, but not at you, because this is the first time I have encountered that information. I have to wonder why the legions of people who should have told me about that never did.
“Read Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories for a more thorough explanation.”
What a coincidence! I was clicking around yesterday from one article on nutrition to another, and ran across references to that in several places. It seems he has another book out, “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.”
Some people said it was a shorter, more accessible version of “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” but I don’t know, not having read either book.
I am definitely going to read “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” and soon.
Thank you for contributing to a discussion rather than exacerbating a quarrel.