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diabetes: scarier than terrorists and gays combined
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That may be because low carb doesn't perform any better when compared to other diets.
Depends on how you define "low carb". The studies I've seen call anything under 200-250g a day LC, and that is far, far above what I would consider a low carb diet. 100g daily is more like it. On top of that, any study that depends on people self-reporting what they eat is intrinsically flawed.
All know is, low carb worked for me; my blood sugar is under control (I was pre-diabetic) AND my cholesterol went down more than 50 points on a VAP test. On top of that, I've lost 30 pounds of fat and maintained my muscle mass, all in 6 months.
True, but I would wager that the overwhelming majority of chronic over-eaters and morbidly obese didn't get that way by glandular disorder, and if they did there's not much dietary help for them anyway.
People who are on drugs can still use medicines that aren't narcotics, and people that are morbidly obese can eat without eating poorly.
So why are you not just eating like you should?
My problems are low body awareness and high impulsiveness, so I have a bad habit of eating way too much at meal times and going for sweets. As such, regimenting meals and getting a summer job outside the house (read: away from food sources) was pretty much what I needed (I'd held my weight before going to college, so it couldn't have been switching back from the school caf, and my intake was kind of controlled by my mother outside of the breakfast which I changed from bagels to eggs).
One principal I've noticed is that the best diet is the diet that eliminates a weakness. I tend to be a sucker for sweets but inherited my mom's taste for fish and poultry, so I had to go low carb. People who eat too muck fried food tend to thrive on low fat diets. Either way, people are likely to chose the worst diet if going for easiness.
The main study I've seen was Atkins v. standard, although the NYT science section noted that Taubes' diet hasn't distinguished itself in the review of his latest book.
I haven't really gained weight since I stopped playing ball in college.
But I played O-line, and haven't really been able to shuck they weight I intentionally gained back then. I don't really eat all that poorly.
Edited: Guess I was being reactionary, as always, and should have more closely examined your posts.
I'm skeptical of low carb diets being the same effectiveness as regular diets, unless as mentioned last page, they're going for like 200 carbs instead of around 50.
I think the Atkins comparison showed the only difference was that Atkins subjects kept it off a little better. For newer diets, the results vary from large but insignificant difference to rounding error, with the former probably being explainable by the fact that nobody eats crackling (pure fat) but everybody eats mashed potatoes and candy (pure carbs), so that only one diet has an in-built block on total excess in allowed categories.
Where did I say that was normal? I said it could be dangerous and I'm doing it for a very brief time.
And a small ear of corn has 60-70 Calories. I ate less than half, and it's the only carbs I've had this week.
What he's doing is not dangerous in the long term and, in fact, he mentioned that he upped his weekly calorie intake after his latest doctor visit. I realize you all want to be "right" but I believe it's time to move on.
So...diabetes is a terrible thing and we should probably try and prevent it, huh?
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Unless it was a "give a subsidy for healthy food and then tax 'pre-packaged' food to the point where you're buying less than with what the subsidy gives you extra for." Though I'd still like to be able to buy prepared foods at the grocery store because a lemon chicken made at Wegmans is still better than some chicken nuggets from the frozen food section.
I'd personally like to see food stamp programs (or whatever your state uses) direct spending options to natural and healthy foods.
Of course, I felt stronger about this after a woman in front of me at Walgreens once used food stamps to buy $12 worth of Twizzlers and Big Red soda.
Although there's reports showing that food stamps are getting used more often to buy nicer products, like at a Whole Foods and such.
My brother and sister were on WIC for a while and it was awesome for them, there was no way they could afford fresh/canned fruit otherwise, or probably milk.
I agree. It would be nice if there were some sort of education that came with the food stamps too, so people might make better decisions. Most people I see with food stamps get frozen pizzas and microwave dinners instead of whole, healthy foods.
Of course, then we'd have to get them to actually cook, and far too many people now don't or can't.