Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment

That may have been a bit of a fad though. The single most important rule that I know of is to never mix an animal protein meal and sugar, because that creates triglycerides which harden your blood vessels. This single rule is why fast food is so bad. Cheeseburgers are fine, but add fries and a pop and you just blew it.

As I've gotten older, I've noticed that my need for carbs has diminished greatly. As a teenager, I frequently ate a bag of gummy worms and a 2 liter bottle of pop on weekends. That changed to a case of beer in college. Either of those sound untenable today though.

The single easiest bit of advice I could give someone to lose fat is to stop eating all white fluffies and all sugar. So eat peas, salads etc with each meal instead of corn/bread/potatoes. Then pump iron at least 3 times a week so your body is in a constant rebuilding mode.

You don't really need to watch your fat intake like they recommended 20 years ago either. Always opt for natural fats like avocado, peanut or almond butter and regular butter because you need those to rebuild your connective tissue.

The big secret that nobody ever tells young people is that bodybuilding is all about eating/exercising in ways that elevate your hormones, then strengthening your connective tissue. If you do those things, then muscle and endurance come automatically. If you don't do them, you'll always be emaciated and will eventually get injured.

For more information, search the nutritionfacts.org site for "diabetes".

The whole-food plant-based diet is the healthiest diet for humans.

Contestants on an extreme weight loss television reality show saw their resting metabolism drop after a rigorous program of exercise.

>The group as a whole on average burned 2,607 calories per day at rest before the competition, which dropped to about 2,000 calories per day at the end.

Six years later, calorie burning had slowed further to 1,900 per day, as reported in the journal Obesity.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-years-after-the...

Another recent study showed that diet effected metabolism.

>a large new study published on Wednesday in the journal BMJ found that overweight adults who cut carbohydrates from their diets and replaced them with fat sharply increased their metabolisms.

After five months on the diet, their bodies burned roughly 250 calories more per day than people who ate a high-carb, low-fat diet

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/well/eat/how-a-low-carb-d...

Not eating anything, and only eating proteins and fats, are both difficult for me. And simply abstaining is actually easier. When I consume anything I begin craving not only carbs, but craving the stimulation of eating, period.

I think its finally uncontroversial to say that not all calories are the same. But eating is more than just the metabolic process; like smoking it's about the physical habits and stimulation. In that way eating chips is not much different than eating pork rinds, and for some people that's what matters most.

Remember the Master Cleanser and juice fast fads? People consuming nothing but raw sugar for days, weeks, and even months on-end derived similar benefits--weight loss, improved insulin sensitivity, etc. And for some people it was really easy because you could sip on your drink constantly throughout the day, which was in an important way the antithesis of abstinence. Not all calories are the same, but it's still the case that fewer calories are better. Just do whatever it takes to get you to fewer calories.

I'm not trying to equivocate diets--vitamins, minerals, and fiber still matter. But, again, calorie count is ultimately the most important metric. How you manage it is largely a matter of your personal tastes and lifestyle. Few people can manage a perfect diet, but there's a least bad diet for everyone, and they're often wildly different. And that's basically what the expert stated in the article--the powdered diet isn't for everybody, but it was important to begin offering alternatives to the "balanced diet" recommendations.