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March 27 - April 5, 2020
that our venerated profession is no longer interested in addressing the causes of disease.
“The second of the chief causes of obesity is the floury and starchy substances which man makes the prime ingredients of his daily nourishment.
People who lose weight dream about food. They obsess about food. All they can think about is food.
it is harder for people who have lost weight to resist food.
It’s a normal hormonal fact of life.
Yet nutritional authorities continue to preach that caloric reduction will lead to nirvana of permanent weight loss. In what universe do they live?
The low-fat, low-calorie diet has already been proven to fail.
Eating less does not result in lasting weight loss.
“Eat Less” does not work. That’s a fact. Accept it.
In 2007, Alli won the “Bitter Pill Award” for worst drug from the U.S. consumer group Prescription Access Litigation.
The early Greek physician Hippocrates, considered the father of medicine, said, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
Obesity increased relentlessly, even as we sweated to the oldies.
whether physical activity increases or decreases, it has virtually no relationship to the prevalence of obesity.
If lack of exercise was not the cause of obesity epidemic, exercise is probably not going to reverse it.
Exercise is still healthy and important—just not equally important. It has many benefits, but weight loss is not among them.
You can’t outrun a poor diet.
Overeating did not, in fact, lead to lasting weight gain.
Eating more does not make us fat. Getting fat makes us eat more.
The reason diets are so hard and often unsuccessful is that we are constantly fighting our own body.
Obesity is a state of leptin resistance.
“We do not get fat because we overeat. We overeat because we get fat.”
It’s only mildly ironic that while condemning other diets, the AHA would recommend the only diet (low-fat) repeatedly proven to fail.
Think about foods that people say they’re “addicted” to. Pasta, bread, cookies, chocolate, chips.
there are no natural satiety hormones for refined carbs.
In 1988, the American Heart Association decided that it would be a good idea to start accepting cash to put its Heart Check symbol on foods of otherwise dubious nutritional quality.
In 2009, nutritional standouts such as Cocoa Puffs and Frosted Mini Wheats were still on the Heart Check list.
Every morning, just before we wake up, a natural circadian rhythm jolts our bodies with a heady mix of growth hormone, cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenalin).
States with the most poverty tend to also have the most obesity.
The first choice in our arsenal was the beloved Eat Less, Move More approach, which sported a perfect record unblemished by success.
“Rich desserts can be omitted without risk, and should be, by anyone who is obese and trying to reduce. The amount of plain, starchy foods (cereals, breads, potatoes) taken is what determines . . . how much (weight) they gain or lose.”
But there are no essential carbohydrates and no essential sugars. Those are not required for survival.
A friendly reminder from a legit source.
It is now increasingly recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health consequences. HARVARD RESEARCHERS DRS. FRANK HU & WALTER WILLET, 2001
Nutritionally, a piece of butterscotch candy cannot be reasonably compared to kale simply because both contain equal amounts of carbohydrate.
Dietary fat, with it high caloric density, must therefore be bad for weight gain as well. However, there was never any data to support this assumption.
Hippocrates wrote, “To eat when you are sick, is to feed your illness.”
Plutarch (c. AD 46–c. AD 120) also echoed these sentiments. He wrote, “Instead of using medicine, better fast today.”
There are, in fact, no species of animal, humans included, that have evolved to require three meals a day, everyday.
