Wheat belly

[Highjack]

Proteins and various nutrients are the building blocks of the machine that is your body, and carbohydrates are the fuel upon which it runs. There is a large and growing minority of people who can't metabolize gluten, with symptoms ranging from intestinal discomfort to cardiac arrest, and when they take that seriously I understand them. When they say that I would be better off without wheat they're wrong. Everyone is different, that's evolutions way of guaranteeing that someone survives in the event of an ecological change. The Paleodiet concept is neat, but doesn't take into consideration that humans have been evolving with their dietary constraints for all of evolutionary history and that includes the last 10,000 years of agriculture. 99.99% of the populaiton was once lactose intolerant, but economic conditions favored dairy farming in Europe and within a few dozen generations the overwhelming majority of the European population was able to metabolize lactose, the sugar in milk. African, Asian and New World populations couldn't and their majority still can't. If a paleo diet works for you, great, but don't close off the innovations of the entire holocene without a good reason.

 

[Highjack]

Anecdote: Medical doctors all believed that it was natural for all humans to have lesions in their intestines. Nearly everyone ever autopsied displayed evidence of lesions in their intestines. Then Nazi Germany invaded the low countries and took every cow out of their country to feed the Wehrmacht. By the end of the war medical doctors performing autopsies on the residents of these areas discovered that they had no intestinal lesions. It was the red meat in their diets that was causing all of that damage.

I'm not a vegetarian myself, but I understand some of the philosophy behind the lifestyle. I also found out that persons on strict vegetarian diets tend to drop five to ten points in IQ. This drop is absent in persons (like weightlifters) who take creatine. Creatine when metabolized leaves a supply of atinosine triphosphate, normally produced by the mitochondria, and ATP is the fuel cells use to repair themselves and build new cells (among other things.)

 

[Sonny]

In university, a long time ago, I was sharing a flat with a British lawyer taking the bar in Ontario. There was a small corner store nestled alone in our very residential Italian neighbourhood in mid-north Toronto.
We had next to no money, but scraped together some change for a bought dessert from that little corner store. All we could afford were two small plastic containers of vanilla pudding.
Back at home, I examined the list of ingredients as was my wont with my occasional interest in health, as it was a bit of the social culture of the day, these days being a recycle of then.
I burst right out loud in laughter, and showed the label's large print to my English buddy.... the label read "Guaranteed Non-Nutritive".

 

[Alix Turner]

I'd rather eat whatever the fuck I want, and not deny myself because people feel the need to tell me what I should and should not do...
I gave all that up when I became an adult...

I battled with my weight for years, I have had people try to sell me on non dairy diets, raw food diets, wheat and gluten free diets, the hunters diet and on and on.. I've seen most of my friends go on and off these diets around me and for the most part none are ever really happy with their bodies. A few years ago I decided I was totally done with that crap. I stopped buying reduced or sugar free, fat free, low carbohydrate diet foods and started eating what I wanted, when I wanted, like an adult. Between that decision and regular exercise, I have not had a problem with being unable to manage my weight since. I think it's 90% a mental game, and most of these diets only leave people feeling more dissatisfied and frustrated which leads to eating with your emotions instead of eating for their physical requirements

 

[vancity_cowboy]

I think that is really what it come down to .. The work most people do to day . requires very little physical exertion compared to 50 yrs ago.

i'm not too sure about 50 years ago maxx, i mean that was 1960's, but 100 years ago even a guy working in an office split and hauled wood for his fires at home, hauled water for his household needs in some cases, often had a small herd of livestock and chickens in the back yard for food that had to be fed and watered and mucked out twice a day, he walked or rode horseback to work six days a week in all weather, hauled coal and water at his place of work, STOOD at a standup desk all day for 10 hours a day - then on the day of rest it was walking off to church after tending to his chores, and spending the rest of the day mending tools, clothing and tack

and this is an office worker remember

and we wonder why we get fat

also i see nobody's mentioned the empty calories contained in the alcohol in booze

 

[Larry Storch]

I've always been a little on the thin side thanks to my metabolism, but I did discover something recently that made a big difference. About a month ago I noticed I was gaining weight, but not the good kind (muscle) and I wasn't eating a lot of crap. It took me a little while to figure it out, but what it got down to was not what I ate, but when I ate. Thanks to our current life style most people have a very light breakfast or just a coffee and a muffin/danish/toast in the morning. Then a bigger lunch and finally the main meal of the day when they get home. Seems upside down to me. I work nights, so I usually get up around 12 to 2 p.m. So I decided to have dinner when I got up and then a smaller lunch and then something light at the end of the day. I usually have a bowl of Raisin Bran before bed. Well, I manage to lose the additional 7 pounds I had packed on and all I did was reverse my meals. As far as whether wheat is good or not, there are always going to be new studies and diets coming along and I can't be bothered following any of them. As long as the bulk of my meals are vegetables, then I think I'm doing good.

 

[Bartdude]

Another useless diet fad. Brought to you by the same scammers who tried to tell us it was bad to eat rice, but good to eat bacon.