Not so sure; there was a LOT of high fructose and trans fat in that list; the former causing liver damage and the latter terrible HDL vs. LDL level balances.
Nutrition Professor loses weight on "twinkie" diet
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Not so sure; there was a LOT of high fructose and trans fat in that list; the former causing liver damage and the latter terrible HDL vs. LDL level balances.
Meh, it works for me cause I don't have above average muscle mass. Plus I'm saying that cause I'm not saying my actual weight *cough*.
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No it does not cause this. It can lead to this problem in people with a strong genetic disposition for these sorts of disorders. Even then the corralation is not strong.
For one, the difference between table sugar (which is common natrual food as it is), and HFCS is quite small. HFCS contains only around 15 to 20% more fuctose. Table sugar (sucrose) is actually 50% fructose.
Let me prefix my post by stating that I'm currently enrolled at a chiropractic school, and we take a LOT of science classes. One class I'm currently taking is nutrition, and I'm kind of scared that a nutrition prof did something this stupid.
Yep. You're right on the money. All he managed to do was to put his body in starvation mode (aka lowered his basal metabolic rate). As soon as he goes back to a normal diet, he's going to be taking in more calories than he needs. I would be surprised, actually, if he didn't end up heavier than where he started.
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Worst diet ever. Period.
I don't care how much he has lost, he is probably going to gain that all back plus more once he goes off the diet.
Yep. You're right on the money. All he managed to do was to put his body in starvation mode (aka lowered his basal metabolic rate). As soon as he goes back to a normal diet, he's going to be taking in more calories than he needs. I would be surprised, actually, if he didn't end up heavier than where he started.
This is false, actually, but a very common notion. You need to compare HDL's to LDL's to get any true indication of heart disease risk.
In a healthy individual, HDL's should be higher than LDL's. His HDL's are about a third the concentration of LDL's. Not good at all. This man is seriously in need of exercise. Believe it or not, exercise is the number one way to raise your HDL's. It's also an excellent way to help get his blood pressure under control. That and drinking a lot more water. And fricking eating healthy!
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Not necessarily.
Varying factors contribute to whether you can lose weight or not. I myself have two disorders that are both known to cause weight gain, even if you do count your calories and portion sizes. I was down to 1200 calories a day and STILL gaining weight before I figured out how I should best eat to support the disorders I have. Ironically, it meant more calories and more fat, and then I started losing weight.
Yes necessarily, by not eating enough calories you're body must have been compensating by conserving energy somehow, perhaps by decreasing unconcious movement or something, therefore your calories in were still > calories out. There is no getting around it.
OH god, not another one... you are way off. FRUIT have way more fructose than table sugar, and yet it is not harmful in any way... why? It consists of fructose still naturally bound with sucrose; the fructose in HFCS is~not~bound... it is a wholly different monster that our bodies are not designed to understand.
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I am a chemistry major less then a year away from a degree in said subject, and I have taken advanced courses in biochemistry; I know what I am talking about. Metabolically, there literally is no difference between the two. The first thing that occurs to sucrose metabolically is it is broken down into fructose and glucose. Our bodies do understand what fructose is, it just gets processed through a different pathway.
I HAVE done this too..starved myself for the sake of burning more than i took in. Worked out 3 hours a day 7 days a week and lost nothing. I have yet to find what my body needs to lose weight, but im going to find it.
Not ironic at all. Fat is a MAJOR fuel source for the body. It's what your heart runs on - and it doesn't run on anything else. If you don't consume any fat, your body will manufacture it from what you do eat (ie. carbs). Once your body is satisfied that you're consuming enough carbs, fats, and proteins to support it, (well-balanced, diverse portions) then it'll stop (eventually) trying to hoard as much as possible. It'll still hoard some, but not nearly so much. Heh - maybe it's a trust thing.
Interesting that his health seemed to have improved. Perhaps the lack of diversity in his diet caused his body to become more efficient at absorbing the few nutrients he was taking in (from the 1/3rd of his diet not composed of junk food, lol).
HERE WE GO!
glad to see someone is sane:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/11/12/nutritionists-to-america-for-the-love-of-god-dont-try-the-twinkie-diet/
glad to see someone is sane:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/11/12/nutritionists-to-america-for-the-love-of-god-dont-try-the-twinkie-diet/
You didnt read the initial post he said the same thing... don't do it
I assume you didn't read indi's assertion that you demonizing of fructose is also has no merit.
Oh I read it, and he's wrong. My warnings about HFCS are intensely valid, given the fact that it's idea of fructose has little relation to the natural molecule by the same name that, instead, is bound with sucrose in a way our bodies are designed to understand. Between indigo and nutritional lab scientists, I'm going with the nutritional lab scientists.
The first thing that you body does when sucrose enters your stomach is cleave that glycosyl bond forming glucose and fructose.
free fructose is used in the krebs cycle to form citric acid. So you, like any nutritional scientist who fail to acknowledge this are blowing smoke out of thier ass
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