Kind of crazy that you guys don't understand this yet. I may not know how to hack, but I know how the body operates. Most people would do well to read Volek & Phinney, both 'the art and science of low carbohydrate living' and 'the art and science of low carbohydrate performance'
Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?
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#22Yes.
For me, probably most is the highly sedentary office lifestyle.
Compounding this problem, I more or less live alone and thus 'community food' (eating out) is my best access to non-frozen pre-prepared meals. I refuse to do leftovers (this is not negotiable).
The main problem with eating out is the portion size. Everything is insanely large.
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#23There's a BBC Horizon episodes with two identical twins, one goes for the low fat diet and the other for low carb diet to test which one is worse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t8r4h http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1amh2t_bbc-horizon-sugar-v...
Do they take cholesterol tests at the start and end? I skimmed a little but didn't see it.
That's the only thing I'd really be interested in.
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#24Yes. For me, probably most is the highly sedentary office lifestyle. Compounding this problem, I more or less live alone and thus 'community food' (eating out) is my best access to non-frozen pre-prepared meals. I refuse to do leftovers (this is not negotiable). The main problem with eating out is the portion size. Everything is insanely large.
Read into meal prep, a number of friends in a similar situation have tried it and reported great success.
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#25Neither by themselves, but when combined... I read somewhere that when they want to fatten up lab mice they feed them a mixture of 70% sugar and 30% fat or something similar. When you make something much more delicious and available than what appears in nature, it screws with an animal's energy balance signals.
> Neither by themselves, but when combined...
I buy that argument with high-fat zero-sugar diet, but is there a reasonable evidence that eating a high-sugar but low-fat diet is healthy?
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#26Bah, why do people write such painfully long posts without an executive summary at the top?
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#27Kind of crazy that you guys don't understand this yet. I may not know how to hack, but I know how the body operates. Most people would do well to read Volek & Phinney, both 'the art and science of low carbohydrate living' and 'the art and science of low carbohydrate performance'
In turn, I recommend you read How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger. http://nutritionfacts.org/book/
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#28Neither. Calories.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I skipped to the last few minutes of that, they seem to do a nice summary... "avoid processed foods" "All faddish diets are wrong and exercise is important" "the combination of fat and sugar is bad" (not just one or the other but foods full of both like donuts are bad)
I thought eating fat with sugar was better than eating sugar alone since the fat slowed down the absorption of the sugar, thus dampening the insulin response.
"When people eat a diet that is high in calories and high in fructose, the liver gets overloaded and starts turning the fructose into fat.
Lustig and other scientists believe that excess fructose consumption may be a key driver of many of the most serious diseases of today. These include obesity, type II diabetes, heart disease and even cancer."
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#30Bah, why do people write such painfully long posts without an executive summary at the top?
It's the New Yorker.