Cianan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:38 pm
Mantrik wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:13 pm
Cianan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:55 pm
Come on. You've been promoting a low-fat diet, a fad diet unfortunately enduring for decades with ill-deserved publicity. Are we going to redefine restrictive?
I'll define sensible restriction - if you are predisposed to have high cholesterol, a diet producing higher levels of cholesterol may well kill you. If you are diabetic, have an ethnic predisposition etc. you may want to think before beleiveign that a diet high in sugar is better than one high in fat.
Ignore the media campaigns which flim-flam between demonising fat and sugar and use a bit of common sense - clealry we have an obesity crisis because people are dimwitted and easily led, not because the world has sugar and fat in it. Persuading people to give up their fat and sugar is probably far less easy than asking them to give up their guns, even though they are using them to kill themselves.
I know what you're saying, but you also need to consider that public notions about fat have also been based in deeply flawed data.
Would you believe me if I said I completely healed myself of obesity and numerous risk factors for disease by switching to a mostly fat diet? I'm not in ketosis, I eat starch, but I still eat at least 750 calories in high-quality fat every day (I love butter, nuts and coconut!), including saturated fat, and I now have a body like that of an athlete who has never been fat in their life. I maintain my health just by walking. Someone who has been obese is usually observed gaining weight and keeping fat more easily no matter what they do, but it was as though eating fat made my body unrecognizable due to a newfound speedy, healthy metabolism and resistance to weight gain. It changed everything. I can't reconcile what is typically said of fats either with recent, reliable studies or my personal experience.
In the context if this thread, I see high fat and high sugar calorie-dense diets spreading to parts of Asia and creating the same obesity issues we have in the West. Whatever your diet and wherever you live, the simple formula is that if you consume more calories than you need you will put on weight. Similarly, you will lose weight even if you eat loads of fat. I know vegan and vegetarian people at the gym with massive muscles and others who are endurance athletes , and they don't over-indulge in any food group, so like you I am more inclined to believe my own experience than studies when it comes to the food industry. (Of course, vegans can eat too much fat and sugar and become obese too.)
I haven't been to India for some time, but last time I was there I sat down to dinner with half a dozen people whose 'ice-breaker' was to discuss their badge of honour - yes, they had all managed to become diabetic. Whatever we are predisposed to, in terms of disease, we would do well to heed.
Btw, didn't the super-fit Atkins, of the high fat Atkins Diet, drop dead with heart trouble?
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