What We Know of Obesity and Low-Fat Diets Might Be Wrong

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4 points·paulpauper··7 comments

I think it's been well established that a high-starch diet will lead to weight gain. Starchy foods have the side effect of increasing the craving for more starchy food the more we eat them. Starches are not bad we just have to eat them in moderation along with proteins and vegetables.

Keep this in mind, and do what you will with it, farmers feed the animals they want to fatten as fast as possible, foods that are high in starch. Foods that are high in starch like molasses(sugar), grains, and oats.

Oops, I meant to say carbs, not starch. Anyhow a high-carb diet will lead to weight gain.

Avoid foods that cause a large short lived blood sugar spike and choose foods that are digested more slowly instead.

This is a case where a non invasive way to monitor how your blood sugar reacts to different food choices would be a handy learning tool.

Maybe we should say, Not entirely correct. It's ok for science to keep learning. Not even a surprise.

He opens the top drawer of his desk to show me: “I usually have a bunch of nuts here, and…” There, in a red wrapper, is a big bar of dark chocolate. “I recommend a minimum of 70 percent [cocoa],” he says. High-fat foods. And the jar next to the desk, with a spoon beside it?

Raw coconut butter. Loads of fat. Does he spread it on something? “No, just eat a couple of spoonfuls in the middle of the afternoon.”

(2016)

Yup. low fat is just propaganda from the sugar industry

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