On 7/8/2014 4:10 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/7/2014 11:20 PM, wrote:
>> On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:03:17 PM UTC-5, Terrence Crimmins wrote:
>>>
>>> The best way to lose weight is to become young again, when you
>>> would eat like a pig and not gain a pound. It's tough to do, though.
>>>
>>>
>> Being young has absolutely nothing to do with ones size. I see
>> PLENTY of young people, all under the age of 20, terribly, terribly
>> obese. Even though your comment was meant to be taken with a grain
>> of salt, it's simply not true.
>>
> It's not a simple issue. But I see more overweight young people
> (teens and 20-somethings) than I used to. I guess they're eating a
> lot of junk. That's why there are all these diet fads and alleged
> miracle pills.
Well, what would anyone expect from a feedlot diet? We feed cattle and
pigs lots of corn to fatten them up. We've moved to a corn-based diet
for ourselves, too.
Plus: plastics. Chemicals found in plastics mimic human hormones.
They've found links between chemical ingestion and obesity. Worse of
all, the diet advice we've been given over the past half-century or so
has been hideously, dangerously, wrong. We decided red meat was bad
and encouraged people to eat more grains - but protein is the most
satiating food, and grains are fattening agents. We replaced animal
fats with hydrogenated fats, which are far unhealthier than animal
fats. We marketed 'fat-free' foods whose fat content was replaced by
sugars. But eating fat satisfies one's sense of hunger, where eating
sugar exacerbates it. We switched to low-fat milk, getting rid of the
good fat that makes you feel full, but leaving in all the milk sugar
that's bad for you. We advised people to eat many small meals a day in
order to stave off hunger pangs, but constant eating keeps your liver
busy producing enzymes digesting the food you just ate, not leaving it
any time to produce enzymes to break down stored body fat.
Overeating is part of it, but it's not all of it. If it were, it would
be simple to lose weight and simpler yet to keep it off.