Bush?
Wheat! Stop eating it and watch the fat dissolve.
I am a “Calorie-is-a-calorie” kinda guy.
The term, Empty Calories, still infuriates me...
Ya got snookered.
How a body converts food to Kcals is very different from how a bomb calorimeter converts food for the 'official' measurements.
All folks are different. I eat about 2000 Kcals for first breakfast. Carbs, fats, all the good stuff.
And then move on from there.
I barely maintain my 120lbs.
Some folks would bulk up on that.
/johnny
A calorie is a calorie, but it also depends on how well your metabolism works. Many people gain weight in middle age even if they maintain the same diet and level of activity, because their metabolism changes.
Conclusion: Enjoy your steaks, your hamburgers and your other grilled meats this fine day, ladies and gents-—for your health. ;)
I learned recently that alcohol calories don’t make you fat (seriously): e.g., http://www.maxwettstein.com/Library/Alcohol.htm. This is why drinking hard liquor rather than high-carb beer can actually be good for your weight.
This is cutting edge information about 30 years ago. The real research is far beyond this. Some directions:
Adjusting the intestinal flora to a “skinny” floral combination of the 30-40 primary digestive bacteria.
Reducing the enterobacter genus bacteria. Very obese people have an intestinal flora that is almost 1/3rd enterobacter genus. Enterobacter produces a toxin that promotes weight gain.
The digestive Archaea consume gases like hydrogen that inhibit digestion by bacteria. Archaea look like bacteria but are totally alien to them.
Normalizing irritated MAST cell clusters in the fat. These cell clusters release chemicals that promote fat creation, and the fatter you are, you have more than proportionally greater numbers of them.
Triggering the production of more brown fat and overall metabolic thermogenesis. White fat saves calories, brown fat burns them up for heat.
Not too long ago, a research scientist discovered that incineration-based calorimeter nutritional data is wildly incorrect, in that the digestive nutritional value of raw and cooked foods is remarkably different, to the point where people on raw food diets generally exhibit some form of malnutrition over time.
Medically supervised starvation of obese people with diabetes has been shown to significantly reverse problems with their insulin production, if not permanently.
Some allergens are associated with obesity as well.
TRUE
The fork. The eeeeevil, wicked fork, it tempts us...yes it does!
Sweet, tasty, starchy carbs, corn, wheat, rice, potatoes.
Perhaps people are fat because they’ve been listening to these boneheads and their food pyramid.
I forgot to add that he runs 5-6 miles a day. But that wouldn't have anything to do with his weight, would it? /s
If you were in the wilderness and all you had to eat was rabbit or trout, you would starve because it takes more energy to metabolize protein than it yields.
Poor Gary Taubes. He misses the point. No matter what you eat, there is the energy content of what is actually absorbed. There is the energy expenditure of a person over any particular period of time. If the energy expenditure over a particular period of time exceeds the energy absorption, there will be a reduction in weight in the non-water mass. It will be either in the form of carbohydrate (limited), protein (through protein catabolism), or fat. If the energy expenditure over a particular period of time is less than the energy absorption, there will be a corresponding increase in the non-water mass. This will usually be seen in an increase of stored dietary fat. If the carbohydrate portion of the intake exceeds the storage capacity of the organism in the form of glycogen, then there will be an increase in carbohydrate catabolism to protect the body and a corresponding decrease in fat catabolism resulting in an increase in storage of dietary fats. If the carbohydrate intake is sufficiently large and the total energy intake is sufficiently great, then de novo lipogenesis may be increased to help reduce the threat posed by the excess carbohydrates (read mostly glucose or fructose).
I follow a low glycemic index diet and I’ve lost 25 lbs (from 264 to 239) in 2 months.
I remember when my mom was 5’2” and close to 140-150 lbs.
She is now down to 80 lbs at the age of 97, of course
she’s also shrunk down to 4’5”.
If we live long enough,won’t care about eating.