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Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

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Re: Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

#31
Fat is for survival, if you're don't spend the night outdoors you wont burn it.

Sugar is for energy to use immediately, if you don't use it it's turns into fat, 30% of it is wasted in that process though.

Overeating carbs is better than overeating fat.

Re: Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

#32

Earlier 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.

The program goes into the why: in nature fat and sugar can not be found in combination so there is no natural inhibition.

They tested this with mice, one set would have unlimited fat, another unlimited sugar, and the third set the combination of sugar and fat. Surprisingly, the first two sets of mice would stop eating when they were full. Only the third set of mice would go on eating and eating..

Re: Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

#34
I think I am misunderstanding the 30% claim. Is it over time or is it just that 4.4 is ~30% greater than 3.4? I think the latter makes sense without "the complex statistical way that the study’s results were projected over time" but then again I haven't read the actual study.

Re: Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

#36
post #22

Yes. 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.

It is "insanely large" because leftovers are built into the meal. You're meant to take some home and have it for lunch.

I don't really know what your post is about. It starts with the word "Yes" (???) and then gives a ton of incoherent excuses for something which isn't specified.

Re: Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

#40
My intuition is that there is a small delta in impact between a 'reasonable' diet and a 'perfect' diet, and so playing in that margin is pointless. But I've always felt it notable that you can consume a whole day's worth of calories in about 5 minutes with a super happy value meal, and then be hungry again a few hours later. I'd say avoid doing that.
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