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Giles Yeo
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January 8 - January 13, 2024
The ONLY way to get rid of fat or carbs from the body is to use it, to burn it off.
If all of this sounds suspiciously loosey goosey and a little bit comme ci, comme ça, that’s because it is!
As Paracelsus supposedly said, ‘sola dosis facit venenum’, which is Latin for ‘the dose makes the poison’.
However, shortly after the US entered the First World War in 1917, American women were encouraged to stop buying corsets in order to free up metal for war production. This single step was said to have liberated some 28,000 tons of metal, enough to build two battleships!19 That is a lot of difficulty breathing, body-slimming and silhouetting.
As a result, the market for corsets bottomed out, and by the early 1920s, the corset had left the realm of common use and entered that of the costume drama. The problem was that without the mechanical aid to literally ‘stay in shape’, many women were now looking for natural ways to actually get into shape, which meant, sadly, to lose weight.
eat a little less of everything. Words to live by, even more than a century on.
adding to my collection of early twentieth-century calorie books
Once the food gets to an appropriate level of mush, now called a ‘bolus’, you swallow it.
The issue is, there are actually two openings at the back of the throat, one to the oesophagus, and the other to the trachea, which leads to the lungs. How do we make sure that our food enters the correct opening? We have a little flap called the epiglottis, which normally stays open so we can breathe, but then closes up the opening to the trachea when we swallow, so the food goes down the oesophagus and heads to the stomach.
This is caused when another protein comes along and binds to a segment of DNA next to the Lactase gene, and in doing so, turns the gene off, stopping the production of lactase.
In fact, on an average day, an average human being will use up to 50 to 75kg of ATP, with each ATP recycled (ATP to ADP and back to ATP again) 500 to 750 times. That is roughly our bodyweight, or around 6 × 1025 – 9 × 1025 (a ‘6’ or ‘9’ followed by twenty-five zeroes) molecules of ATP every single day in order to keep everything in our body ship-shape and ticking along.
the liver’s most important role is actually to make sure that your blood glucose levels do not drop too low.
The headline function of insulin is its role in controlling blood glucose levels, but actually, insulin flips the switch between storage or metabolism of all fuels.
Others, however, such as the L cells, secrete GLP-1, oxyntomodulin and PYY… Maybe the ‘L’ in GLP-1?
Put simply, a calorie of protein makes you feel fuller than a calorie of fat, than a calorie of carb, in that order.
That is the problem with many (but not all) ultra-processed foods; because the processing strips out much of the flavour, which has to be replaced to be made palatable, you often end up consuming more sugar, salt and fat as a result.
Think about that for a second, 15 per cent of the milk market is not actually milk at all!
As it turns out, oat milk is 10 per cent oats, which have been soaked, giving the required white colour. The fatty taste and consistency comes from rapeseed oil and other emulsifiers (yum!), and it is then fortified with a whole heap of vitamins and minerals so that you get any significant nutritional value from drinking it at all. This and the closely related ‘quinoa milk’ are clearly only possible because of high-tech industrialised processes.
‘If you focus on health, your weight will take care of itself.’ Me
you will likely find that the calorie information on display is still derived from Atwater’s original 9 calories per gram of fat, 4 calories per gram of carb and 4 calories per gram of protein general factors.
There. After saying that I won’t tell people how to eat, I will tell you to not do Carnivore.
rather than wasting our lives obsessing about our weight and how we look, we should, instead, focus on our health.
‘Free sugars’ are sugars that are not inside the cells of the food we eat. This obviously includes the powdered or granulated form of sugar. However, while it doesn’t refer to sugar in whole fruit, it does include the sugar in fruit juice, from which the fibre has been removed. Free sugars also refer to that found in honey, syrups and nectars.
Remember, we eat food, not calories, and if you take care of your health, your weight will take care of itself. Peace and out.
