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Results of the longest weight gain/weight loss research ever done
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&feature=youtu.be
People who want to lose weight might want to watch this. Actually, every person who eats should watch this. Already in the first 10 minutes a few myths are debunked that are frequently given out for advice here for people who want to lose weight.
Very interesting. Is an hour and a half long, but I think it's worth it.
People who want to lose weight might want to watch this. Actually, every person who eats should watch this. Already in the first 10 minutes a few myths are debunked that are frequently given out for advice here for people who want to lose weight.
Very interesting. Is an hour and a half long, but I think it's worth it.
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I don't have time to watch it now... may do later.
Yea, that's a no-brainer. But it is explained why this is can be very difficult if you eat the wrong things. I don't think UK sweetens all their stuff with high fructose corn syrup like the USA does, but basically, in very short words. Fructose (fruit sugar, but it's in normal household sugar too) is differently metabolized than Glucose (like a fat, not like a sugar). It does not trigger the hunger hormone, basically leaving the brain "starving" (i.e. you eat more), you get fatter (because of the way it is metabolized and not triggering insulin), leaving you with a high concentration of low density lipoproteins (sooner or later guaranteed cardiovascular diseases), high conenctration of urea acid (gout), more hunger, hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
And yes, it affects children (fed with formula [sweetened]) and even the unborn child through the diet of the mother. The professor called Fructose rightly a toxin.
But let's not learn something about our health, Glee is on!
Advice advocating a low fat diet as healthy and a good way of losing weight is flawed and based on a dodgy and incomplete statistical analysis from the 70s, and a load of biology stuff to back up.
A diet should be balanced and low in saturated fat for optimum health. Wittering on about fructose doesn't change that.
A friend of mine (a bread monster) is now with Slimming World. They tell her the carbs are "free", meaning you can eat as much as you want, which is clearly stupid.
Fructose or any sugar can be enjoyed in moderation as part of a balanced diet. The ONLY thing that matters is whether you overdo it and whether your calorie intake exceeds your needs. You can eat a mars bar for every meal and lose weight.
A calory isn't simply a calory, so "More out than goes in" is way to oversimplified.
10 weeks is nothing. The damage dealt is severe but slowly. and he ate a whole can of beans and 3-4 celery stalks daily(!). That's loads of fibre. He would be starving by just eating a twinkie every three hours. Oh no, wait, I am convinced. A single incident is much more convincing.
I'm over-simplifying it, but not by a great deal. What you are claiming, rightly, is that different foods release energy in different ways. Fructose releases energy quickly, making it more likely that your body will turn the excess energy to fat, whereas other foods release energy slowly. But at the end of each day or week, when everything balances, if you have consumed more energy than you've burned off, you'll be putting on fat and if you don't you won't.
What fructose does is make you overeat. The problem still remains the over-eating.
I do Slimming World too. Some carbs are free, but bread isn't. There are some other rules attached though which mean that you still lose weight. E.g. a third of what you eat has to be fruit and veg at every meal so you can't just eat loads of pasta by itself. Slimming World's "free" foods do seem too good to be true but they are basically low energy density foods that fill you up thus llimiting the total number of calories you consume and it does work. At my group the losses are really good every week and I've lost lots of weight following this diet so I don't think it's stupid.
I'm not against any diet company, if they encourage healthy eating and weight loss then fair play to them. I used a website which did a similar thing for a while, to try and control my poor diet, and it worked wonders for me. Although I have now plateaued a bit, need to sort that one out.
no its not. Thats all it is if youre talking about losing or gaining weight. It IS that simple.
Its better to eat a balanced diet, for many reasons, one being its easier to keep satisfied and keep your self control if youre eating balanced, but if you just want to get a few pounds off, calories are ALL that matters
He furthermore points out that it's the balance between the sugar and other nutrients. Fruit has a lot of fibre too, that satiates you. For some reason he did not go into, he tells the US eliminates almost all fibre from processed food (I think it is because of freezing and shelf life, and therefore making it able to export it, which is a huge income for the US), so the overwhelming majority of calories you take in is from Fructose in processed foods. He gives the example if you are just eating stuff like it comes out of the earth you would cure diabetes type 2 very soon, because fructose to and fro, you simply cannot eat that much if there are other nutrients that satiate you. It is, I repeat, in processed foods, and in the US 95% of everything is sweetened with it to a degree that those people eat about 10 times the amount of sugar per year than hundred years ago. And even if it is not HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), normal table sugar contains fructose too.
Like I said, I don't know with what the UK sweetens it's stuff but HFCS is the big deal in Japan too, so maybe you have it too, or at least in imported foods and it makes sense to check from time to time what is in the stuff you are buying, because you might literally poison yourself or your child (even unborn) slowly but almost irreversibly.
Thinking about it a bit more. I wonder if part of the problem with people who have a problem with weight, is maybe expecting to feel fully sated at every meal. Expecting your body to tell you when to stop. Ties up a bit with the OP about this ingredient overriding the bodys satiety hormone, but really, who expects to be full up from every meal?
It is facing a extreme here, concerning satiety. Because of the elimination of fibre and starch and the reduction of fat over the years there is not much in it that satiates you. I have never been to the US but friends tell me the meal sizes are RIDICULOUS over there. And when you have a 1000 kcal coke at a McDs, which is purely sweetened by fructose, it makes you actually eat MORE than less. So I guess even being halfway satiated is already had you gorged down too much food. But you are right of course. The doctor recommend waiting 15 minutes before get second helpings.
Sucrose is turned into glucose and fructose by the enzyme sucrase. He states it's virtually the same as the syrup in the video.