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The article mentions prescription drugs but doesn't mention a widely used over the counter one: nicotine. US smoking rates are down about 50% over the last 20 years. (That's overall, I couldn't find any details by cohort.)
Is the suggestion that people are channelling addictive behaviors from smoking to eating?
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Noticed the same exact thing when I go to Europe, vs. America I think the article mostly applies to America. American food is just fattening
The study factored in the nutritional value of the food, so your comment seems counter to their findings. "...eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher."
The study factored in the macronutrients, but that's not all that matters when it comes to food.
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Link to data/research?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1256757... Actual suspected caloric difference is minimal, after all, well, it is seaweed, not a very dense food stuff. :) I'm not going to link to antibiotics causing gut flora problems, it is well known and responsible doctors actually can prescribe a nice little compact pill full of gut bacteria that replaces the ones wiped out as a side effect of antibiotics. T…
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Noticed the same exact thing when I go to Europe, vs. America I think the article mostly applies to America. American food is just fattening
The study factored in the nutritional value of the food, so your comment seems counter to their findings. "...eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher."
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I agree, the macros look sort of the same, but the source of those calories is much different. Just the types of cooking oil we use has changed a lot. Look at what goes into cookies now. It used to be butter, now I've seen recipes with canola oil. (if anyone tells you to use canola oil in your baked goods, ignore them and use butter!) There is evidence that gut bacteria is passed down from generation to generation, w…
I think this is spot on, and came to comment likewise... I think the types of product we are using for our macros is way off base from even a few decades ago. I only had a little glimpse of how much so because I know someone very allergic to soy, and it's in almost everything these days. I don't think that most things in particular are necessarily bad for you, but it might be worth taking a few steps back and switch…
What's wrong with vegetarianism? I would think it has lots of benefits. It's better for the environment, you don't risk eating very processed meat filled with hormones and additives, from animals often kept in horrible conditions. The meat industry is a textbook example of industrialization, which you consider very harmful. So what's the beef with vegetarianism?
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I agree, the macros look sort of the same, but the source of those calories is much different. Just the types of cooking oil we use has changed a lot. Look at what goes into cookies now. It used to be butter, now I've seen recipes with canola oil. (if anyone tells you to use canola oil in your baked goods, ignore them and use butter!) There is evidence that gut bacteria is passed down from generation to generation, w…
I think this is spot on, and came to comment likewise... I think the types of product we are using for our macros is way off base from even a few decades ago. I only had a little glimpse of how much so because I know someone very allergic to soy, and it's in almost everything these days. I don't think that most things in particular are necessarily bad for you, but it might be worth taking a few steps back and switch…
That seems very expensive for soup, unless you’re buying top end ingredients at a yuppie natural food store.
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Is the suggestion that people are channelling addictive behaviors from smoking to eating?
Smoking reduces your appetite, leading to less eating and less weight. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137085989/the-skinny-on-smokin...
Actually there are two parts: it reduces appetite, and also raises the resting metabolic rate, cf. e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2773833
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> There is evidence that gut bacteria is passed down from generation to generation, we could very well be seeing a delayed effect from public policy and health decisions made around the time the previous generation was growing up. oops. This is something that doesn't get mentioned enough. Your gut bacteria play a large role in your health, and we're going so far as to do fecal transplants to resolve GI tract disorder…
> one of the primary causes of America's obesity > problems. As any European who's spent time in the US can tell you, a dramatically simpler explanation is that portion sizes are enormous and many foods are "low fat" which mean they're loaded with sugar.
Safe choice?
Came battered, deep friend and sprinkled with icing sugar.
I mean if a Scot is surprised at what you do to food then you are doing some weird stuff.
[NB I know you can get really good food in the US - but the portion sizes still amaze me].
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> one of the primary causes of America's obesity > problems. As any European who's spent time in the US can tell you, a dramatically simpler explanation is that portion sizes are enormous and many foods are "low fat" which mean they're loaded with sugar.
Stuff's ridiculously loaded with sugar. I stopped eating sugar for a few months on a whim. It's rather difficult to do so. Everything just pointlessly has loads of it. Even trying to use no-calorie sweeteners is difficult as some places like to tout how natural they are. I went back to eating sugar but I can no longer stomach a lot of foods I would happily have eaten before. Everything is so sweet.
I gave up sugar (well, candy, anything that had refined sugar added, most fruit) for four months. I lost a lot of fat quickly, but it was exceptionally hard from a willpower perspective, and I'd get a massive high when I accidentally ate sweetened food. I'd love to give it up again, but my self discipline is currently needed elsewhere...
No but seriously, this is a terrible article.
As soon as you read »…a professor of _kinesiology_ and health science…« you know the statements are coming from people who believe in esoteric pseudoscience.
If your burn more energy than you take in, you lose weight.
Everything else doesn't make sense.
You can get fat by eating 5000 calories worth of paprika every day.
Statements like these only help people who have weight-problems to have an excuse not to do anything about it.