Fat is not, and has never been, the enemy. Sugar is.
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people don't want to hear that they're killing themselves every time they put something into their mouthes and generally, it's all their own fault. I know I didn't want to hear it until I faced the truth. there's no way that 95% of the crap that is sold is healthy, even most of the "healthy" snack food should be eaten in moderation. people hate moderation, especailly self-moderation.
Also, people don't realize that there are trace amts of sugar in foods that contain splenda, so if one drinks 3 coke zeros, eats some ice cream made with spelnda, put splenda in tea and then later used splenda to sweeten a grapefruit, one has actually had some sugar and calories that day without thinking aboutit. it's 0% sugar and 0 calroies FOR ONE SERVING. if you don't count how many servings you had all day and figure that out, you're taking all sorts of things in (including sodium) without accounting for it. Food labels are very tricky things and it takes time and research to figure things out.
people who count calories also forget that pam is 0 calories for one five second spray, but after that, you need to start adding those bad boys up. It's like that for all foods/drinks that claim to be 0. if it were really 0, it'd be water with nothing in it.
i know for a fact my body doesn't read sf/ff ice cream as a dairy. My body looks at a serving of ff/ss or even low sugar low fat ice cream as a carb. Read the labe, if it contains low fat-no fat or low sugar-no sugar, they HAVE to put something in it, and the label looks a lot like the ingredients in chemistry made carb foods. My body gets that ss/ff ice cream and says "oh, she ate pasta or bread, let's make fat for the winter!" If I have sf or ff or even ff/sf dairy foods, it's very limited every week, because I don't really need it. It's best for me to just drink skim milk or skim lactaid (milk and my stomach fight) as well as take a calcium with D and E vitamin.
What's weird is when I eat a potato, my body is less inclined to do make fat, i think it's because the potato is striaght-up a potato and has nothing else added but does contain a lot of vitamins and minerals.
I also do something that perhaps 3% of the population does, which is sit and look at what I eat every day and plan out as well as own up to everyting i put in my mouth. Good or bad. if I have bread with breakfast, and I know I want a potato at dinner, all bread or snacks that my body will think is bread, are avoided the rest of the day.
I HATE those high-fructose corn syrup commercials where someone makse a comment about HFCS and someone says "what do they say? well it's perfectly fine in moderation." True, most things are fine in moderation, but you ACTUALLY HAVE TO MODERATE it and when HFCS or even just corn is in EVERYTHING, then it becomes almost impossible to moderate it.
I did enjoy the article, but I HATE how it seemed like he was just tyring to sell an expensive book and meal plan to desperate people. I think it would have come across as more professional if he didn't keep harming on his book and his plan. Just relate teh article and give a nudge towards various options.
Jilly
i can attest to the fact that eating food filled with carbs makes me feel bad. since may 11th i have not eaten sugar,or any processed foods filled with flour. any carbs i have eaten are from fruit and vegetables. and i feel much better. the weight is not coming off as quickly as when i was younger, but if i drop a size every two months, i figure in a year i will disappear. ;)
I need to be better about all this, obviously, since I'm diabetic.
It's funny, most people I know don't know the correlation between low fat foods and high sugar -- that generally speaking, when they cut the fat, they increase the sugar to make it more palatable.
Worse, far worse, than sugar--they add corn syrup, which is kinda like crack for the pancreas.
This is a LONG comment--but wow, check out THIS news:
Cancer cells slurp up fructose, U.S. study finds
August 2, 2010
REUTERS
WASHINGTON—Pancreatic tumour cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
Tumour cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.
They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.
“These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation,” Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.
“They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth.”
Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.
Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.
Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.
Several states, including New York and California, have weighed a tax on sweetened soft drinks to defray the cost of treating obesity-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
The American Beverage Association, whose members include Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods have strongly, and successfully, opposed efforts to tax soda.
The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar.
Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.
Tumour cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. “Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different,” Heaney’s team wrote.
“I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in our diets,” Heaney said in a statement.
Now the team hopes to develop a drug that might stop tumour cells from making use of fructose.
U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup went up 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990, researchers reported in 2004 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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