The Sugar Conspiracy

Post by ashmud » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 8:29 PM UTC

xiaoma wrote: post #255

leonroy wrote: post #94

Jack Lalanne (American fitness guru) stated "If man made it, don't eat it". I recall reading that and scratching my head at the sheer number of food products that encompassed. I thought it a rather presumptuous statement. Five years later and after many books and articles on nutrition I now fully agree with him. When I hit the grocery store I skip the middle aisles and head straight for the fish and meat counter or t…

> Grains and milk are relatively recent to our diet (past 10000 years) People have been eating wild wheat for at least 50,000 years and archeologists published a paper in the December, 2009, issue of Science on their discovery in Mozambique of stone tools with wild grain residues dating some 105,000 years ago. Also keep in mind that most of humanity is lactose tolerant now while less than 1% was even 10k years ago an…

Post by Cshelton » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 8:33 PM UTC

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Here is what worked for me to lose fat (weight), but not muscle. It really is simple. - Reduce carbs/sugar intake to around ~100 grams/day, this varies slightly per person. Just reducing bread/grain intake alone is a TON. Grains are turned into glucose, same as sugar, it's effectively the same thing. This also means getting rid of all sweats, processed food. They are just bad for you whether you are overweight or not…

Hasn't it been shown that artificial sweeteners can mess with your blood sugar level and may be just as bad for you as sugar? It seems like it would be best to wean yourself from the craving for sweets. http://www.webmd.com/diet/20140917/artificial-sweeteners-blo...

Post by xiaoma » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

ashmud wrote: post #311

xiaoma wrote: post #255

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> Grains and milk are relatively recent to our diet (past 10000 years) People have been eating wild wheat for at least 50,000 years and archeologists published a paper in the December, 2009, issue of Science on their discovery in Mozambique of stone tools with wild grain residues dating some 105,000 years ago. Also keep in mind that most of humanity is lactose tolerant now while less than 1% was even 10k years ago an…

Common wheat of today is probably not what people were eating 50k years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wheat

Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 8:39 PM UTC

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> I think a better heuristic, is "Just eat what your great-grandma ate". Snarky "lead paint?" aside, this only really works if you're also as active as great-grandma was. Chances are she got a lot more exercise than we modern folk do.

If you read the article you would have seen this "There has been no commensurate decline in physical activity, in either country – in the UK, exercise levels have increased over the last 20 years." Sure, exercise is important, but a potential lack of it is not the problem. The most significant way you can interact with you body is through the food/drink you put in your mouth. Food has changed so much over the past fe…

Post by brenschluss » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

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>> It's just common sense advice that humans seldom make a food healthier by tinkering with it While true, this isn't because humans are incapable of improving food. It's because the ways our species has been improving food recently have been driven by capitalism; we've been making it easier to grow and giving it more appealing taste so that it's easier to mass produce and sell. These qualities, especially the taste…

It's not driven by capitalism (any more than any transaction ever has been), it's driven by consumerism. Twinkies would not be manufactured or sold if people didn't like gobbling them up at the available price. Stop blaming corporations (which are just made up of people) and simply blame your fellow citizens for being a bunch of idiots.