DailyDirt: Diet Myths
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The general public knowledge when it comes to diet and nutrition is an absolute mess, and it’s no surprise given the number of mixed messages, bad scientific studies, deceptive marketing slogans and pseudoscientific quacks out there making noise. Even in the true scientific community (once you find it underneath the sensationalist journalism), there are a lot of unanswered questions about fueling a human body. One of the most notable things about the world of nutritional science is how fast myths are adopted and how frequently the common wisdom is genuinely overturned — here are just a few recent examples:
- More and more studies are suggesting that the number of calories you eat isn’t as important as where they come from. People have been calorie-counting for years, and it rarely achieves long-term results. [url]
- Our fear of fats might be somewhat overblown, too. The original study that linked fat to heart disease (and many others that followed) had some serious flaws, and since a lot of fat gets replaced with carbs in the average diet, people may actually be worse off. [url]
- A researcher who found key evidence of non-celiac gluten sensitivity has done another more rigorous study that yielded opposite results. It’s going to be hard to stop the multi-gazillion dollar industry that’s formed around gluten sensitivity — expect further studies to provide more mixed results. [url]
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Comments on “DailyDirt: Diet Myths”
Diets
My diet is based on the following rules:
1. I like how it tastes.
2. it is nutritious
3. the meal is balanced.
4. the food or additives do not make me sick.
5. try to get plenty of exercise.
Dairy Fat Is Less Fattening Than Non-Dairy Fat
The high calcium content seems to inhibit fat absorption by the body.
1. It is a good idea to count calories for a limited time to get a feel for what numbers different items give. It is also important that you find out what you need of daily calorie intake. It will give you a feel of what you have to be careful about eating too much of later on, which is a very useful skill! Knowing how much soda you can drink and chips you can eat while still keeping an overall healthy diet is pretty handy when you start getting tired of the dieting.
2. Most important of all, eat very diverse.
3. Exercise is extremely important if you want to diet in a healthy way. Several calorie restriction diets are shown to be pretty unhealthy without it.
4. How you like food is crucial for a longer diet/ life style change. Never underestimate motivation! Don’t go nuts with a “healthy food”- or foodtype-restrictive- diet. You might end up quitting that program which is far worse than you using a less effective diet/lifestyle change!
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Exercise has little or nothing to do with weight loss. In fact, it has been negatively correlated to weight loss, mainly due to an increased appetite that accompanies exercise.
The main problem is sugar, especially fructose, the sugar from fruit. Sucrose (table sugar) is 50/50 glucose and fructose. Glucose can be used by the muscles directly; that is why insulin regulates its level in your blood. Fructose must be converted in your liver, however, the bad news is some of it goes directly to fat without even becoming usable by your body (this percent increases when the liver is overwhelmed). Diets with high fructose (fruit juice, soda) lead to obesity because you are basically drinking fat. Plus, it strains your liver to be digesting fructose.
The reason fruit is fine is it contains fibre which regulates the release of fructose in your bloodstream, which helps it not overwhelm your liver.
Re: Re: It's a very complex machine.
Without exercise, a body is likely to crash it’s metabolic rate if it has a calorie shortfall. Your attempt to starve yourself will be moot because your body adjusts itself to survive.
Exercise is necessary as “maintenance” quite separate from the issue of diet and weight.
Re: Re: Re: It's a very complex machine.
If your body has a long-term calorie shortfall (without exercise), you could cause your body damage and distress over and above lowering the metabolic rate if you persistently exercise as well.
This is categorically correct. There are multiple good reasons to exercise and few if any reasons not to exercise… but weight loss tends to be orthogonal to exercise.
Re: Re: Re:2 It's a very complex machine.
By which I of course mean “I categorically agree with this” 🙂 I do of course reserve the right to be wrong (on the internet).
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Of course all weight is demonstrably /not/ created equal. It is better for the weight to be muscle which consumes more than keeping the same ratio of fat to muscle and losing a few pounds.
You should still avoid glutens
The gluten study did not REVERSE its previous findings, it simply discovered that almost all food with gluten in it also has other compounds that cause the inflammations. But for all practical purposes anyone who has gained joint pain relief from avoiding glutens should still do so.
Eat healty, stay fit, die anyway.
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*healthy
I’m pretty sure it still works. In particular, it is important to take quality products in a complex of different exercises to achieve your goals. It is also important to undergo various consultations so that the intake of vitamins or supplements is well perceived by your body. I am now looking for a quality product that will help me achieve my goal of weight loss. I remember the review https://ahealthyjuicer.com/phen375-reviews/ who talked about a good product. I think together with a small diet, they will help me quickly lose extra pounds