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1. the conclusions were based on 25 adults. is this a valid sample size? 2. why is liver fat a driver for diabetes? the article and the paper don't address this.
https://www.healthline.com/health/fatty-liver-disease-and-di...
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dumb question: how easy is it for the average person to go from an “American” diet high in addictive things like bad fats, corn syrups, processed foods, etc. etc. to a “clean” 1200kcal diet? I was under the impression it was like trying to fight drug addiction and the chances of you sustaining it and not relapsing/making up the missed calories later as near impossible for most once you’ve become addicted enough to th…
It's not fair to assume every person is going to become addicted to things like diet coke or fast food. "American" diet has room for a lot of clean eating. Processed food shouldn't be considered the same as "American" food in my opinion. Convenience driven food choices is cultural in America but that doesn't make the chosen food American. I think something like Tex-Mex would easily allow for clean eating. Avocado toa…
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Apparently one major issue with fast food is the hyperpalatability. For example, when I visited my family in the states, I ate two double cheeseburgers at a fast food joint at 1000+ calories per burger, and I figured I could probably eat two more in that sitting without issue. In other words I ate 2000+ calories in a few minutes and could have kept going. Even one burger has more calories than I eat in a single meal.…
> I ate two double cheeseburgers at a fast food joint at 1000+ calories per burger Where was this? A double quarter pounder BLT at McD with standard toppings is 830 calories. A McDouble is half that.
One, along with fries, is enough to fill me up for practically the whole day. I think fast food gets a bad rap. It’s calorie dense but with all of the fat it keeps you pretty darn full.
Compare that burger with a few candy bars or not all that much soda…
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dumb question: how easy is it for the average person to go from an “American” diet high in addictive things like bad fats, corn syrups, processed foods, etc. etc. to a “clean” 1200kcal diet? I was under the impression it was like trying to fight drug addiction and the chances of you sustaining it and not relapsing/making up the missed calories later as near impossible for most once you’ve become addicted enough to th…
How is Diet Coke related to the conversation? It has zero calories.
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dumb question: how easy is it for the average person to go from an “American” diet high in addictive things like bad fats, corn syrups, processed foods, etc. etc. to a “clean” 1200kcal diet? I was under the impression it was like trying to fight drug addiction and the chances of you sustaining it and not relapsing/making up the missed calories later as near impossible for most once you’ve become addicted enough to th…
for me, it was just eating rich flavorful foods that also happen to be healthy what i did was cook for myself so i can reduce vegetable oils, salts, artificial flavorings etc, then cook things like fresh tomato sauces with fresh basil/oregano, fresh fish cooked slowly in plum sauce, chana masala curries with low sodium and delicious spices etc etc once you get used to healthy, satisfying and flavorful "good" food, ca…
The amount of calories per day caught my attention, 850kcal/day with diet replacement products. I understand that with medical supervision, there is less risk of malnourishment or nutrients deficiencies. The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Looking around, I found this other study studying total diet replacement provi…
One company working to reverse diabetes in the US is https://www.virtahealth.com/ (disclaimer: I work there).
The amount of calories per day caught my attention, 850kcal/day with diet replacement products. I understand that with medical supervision, there is less risk of malnourishment or nutrients deficiencies. The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Looking around, I found this other study studying total diet replacement provi…
David Goggins lost 100 lbs in 3 months on an 800ish calorie diet. I’m not recommending that… but what you can accomplish when you own it versus doing it for other reasons is probably significant too. Especially for when the “diet” (or whatever word is preferred, a la “intervention”) ends. I lost 60 lbs over a couple of years and set a state lifting record for my age group. I love what I do and kept the excess weight…
The amount of calories per day caught my attention, 850kcal/day with diet replacement products. I understand that with medical supervision, there is less risk of malnourishment or nutrients deficiencies. The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Looking around, I found this other study studying total diet replacement provi…
dumb question: how easy is it for the average person to go from an “American” diet high in addictive things like bad fats, corn syrups, processed foods, etc. etc. to a “clean” 1200kcal diet? I was under the impression it was like trying to fight drug addiction and the chances of you sustaining it and not relapsing/making up the missed calories later as near impossible for most once you’ve become addicted enough to th…
On the other side are people that say, "eat less, exercise more".
Lots of people have chosen either one of these to be true. It is certainly possible, though.
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Interesting, when I lost 80 pounds doing a ketogenic diet my appetite leveled off at exactly 1200 calories per day. I wasn’t counting calories out of anything other than curiosity as I was losing weight anyway. Getting even lower would have been pretty difficult.
I did a lot of ketogenic diets when I was younger in an attempt to shed all of the weight that comes with being raised in Appalachia. It was my experience that it was a great kickstart to a weight-loss plan for someone who was at rock-bottom health and needed fast results while not feeling like you're starving. But I feel like it taught me to be bored with eating, and to establish a more healthy relationship with foo…
Part of that might be from less water retention early on.
Your body holds on to more water when your diet is full of carbs. As your liver runs down its glycogen stores and you eventually go into ketosis, you lose a lot of water. That's also there the early 'keto flu' comes from, which is a bit like a hangover; plenty of fluids and electrolytes fix you.
Losing water looks great on the scale. On the one hand, it doesn't actually do anything for you healthwise. On the other hand, losing that water ain't bad for your health either (assuming enough fluids and electrolytes), and is a great motivator for the kickstart you described.
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This isn't an exception. Eat less.
This is definitely an exception, one would be deficient in just about every (micro)nutrient and therefore expire much faster than a normal human. While also being much more miserable.
It wouldn't require a whole lot of thought to come up with an all candy diet that supplied the minimum necessary nutrition. How broad is our definition of "candy" for this? Are you willing to consider candied fruits, vegetables, and bacon? Chocolate covered things? How much dark chocolate would we have to add to something to consider it candy?