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EventsMarvelous new video on obesity
Obesity is not just about calories. That’s clearly explained in this new high-quality UCTV series called “The Skinny on Obesity”.
The first episode features dr Robert Lustig prominently. He’s a rock star of telling it like it is. I’m a huge fan.
The second episode (of seven) will be online April 20. Here’s the trailer.
PS: Consider spreading the video to your friends – more people need to see this.
http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity/
LCHF stops postprandial glucose spikes--this is why it not only induces weight loss but good health!
Immediately afterward, they watched a series of photos flash onto computer screens. Some depicted low-fat fruits and vegetables or nourishing grains, while others showcased glistening cheeseburgers, ice cream sundaes and cookies.
Do you think they have some pre-conceived notions about “healthy” food?
“Responsiveness to food cues was significantly reduced after exercise,” …Those results may not be typical, though. The Cal-Poly subjects uniformly were in their 20s, normal weight and fit enough to ride a bike strenuously for an hour. Many of us are not.
I think you meant to say “most?”
And as another provocative new study of brain activity after exercise found, some overweight, sedentary people respond to exercise by revving their food-reward systems, not dampening them.
What a surprise!
For exercise noticeably to dampen your desire for food, in other words, you may need to sweat for an hour.
Or you could just eat real food that satisfies your appetite instead of making you hungrier.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/does-exercise-make-you-overeat/
When Ms. Salisbury baked vegan doughnuts to share with her family, “they said things like, ‘I’m going to go eat some eggs now,’ ” she said. “They were very condescending. They don’t understand and don’t make any effort to understand.”
Her family sounds smarter than she is. They probably didn’t understand when she started wearing a tinfoil hat to prevent being abducted by aliens either…
“In most American adults, meat intake has been associated since childhood with pleasurable nutritional effects,” said France Bellisle, an eating behavior researcher in Paris.
She says that like it’s a bad thing.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/the-challenge-of-going-vegan/
Densely caloric and all too convenient food now envelops us, and many of us do what we’re chromosomally hard-wired to, thanks to millenniums of feast-and-famine cycles. We devour it, creating plump savings accounts of excess energy… “We’re simply not genetically programmed to refuse calories when they’re within arm’s reach,” said Thomas A. Farley, New York City’s health commissioner…He is one of dozens of leading physicians, academicians and public-health experts who appear in “The Weight of the Nation.” ... John Hoffman, an executive producer of the documentary, told me: “Evolutionarily, there was no condition that existed when we were living with too much fat storage. We’ve only known a world of plenty for maybe 100 years. Our biological systems haven’t adapted to it.”
Utter BS.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/opinion/bruni-and-love-handles-for-...
I dread this upcoming HBO “documentary.”
Some of us (like my husband, who rarely gets more than 5 hours of sleep per night) may be doomed anyway:
"Researchers have found further experimental evidence that inadequate sleep can increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. A five-week study showed that sleep disruption decreases insulin secretion, increases blood glucose levels and slows metabolism enough to lead to significant weight gain."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/health/research/curtailed-sleep-rai...
I guess it could be worse if we hadn't been doing LCHF for the past ten years.
I think it would be good to show that too.