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Why You're Fat
Why Your Fat!
* You take dietary advice from fat people!
Yo-yo diets, fad diets, etc. just don't work and are unhealthy! They cause your body to react in the opposite of how you intend. Your body puts on fat stores to help it deal with YOUR abuse!
* You consume MSG which is used to induce obesity in lab rats.
MSG or Mono Sodium Glutamate can be included on food labels as: "flavors", "natural flavors", "flavorings", "autolyzed vegetable protein", or "yeast extract".
* You consume foods laced with High Fructose Corn Syrup
Commercial Cereals, sauces, and desserts are laced with the stuff as it's addictive. Try avoiding foods with labels.
* You consume soft drinks and artificial sweeteners!
Most of the people I know that have lost weight and kept it off did it by simply giving up soft drinks for water (not chlorinated/ non-fluoridated water - get good tasting clean water so you'll drink more!). Artificial sweeteners are chemicals. They have not been proven to my knowledge to aid in the losing of body fat. I have heard people say they think it's made them worse!
* You burn out from exercise!
Do NOT jump into exercise! When muscle glycogen is depleted you'll feel burned out, or lacking in ambition. You have to build up your ability to replenish muscle glycogen and use it more efficiently. You need sugars to replenish it! Sugars or carbs are like a wick to a candle. They are a catalyst for fat burning. A brisk ~20 minute walk a day should be sufficient exercise.
* You're poisoned by fluoride
It's in your water, your food packaging, non-stick cookware, pharmaceuticals, tea, etc. It affects your thyroid function negatively.
* You're sold on the false assumption that it's hard to lose fat!
You think the more money you spend on special foods, or personal trainers, the better off you'll be.
Last edited by madthumbs on Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:28 am; edited 13 times in total
Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:15 am
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Stop using your weight scale! Muscle is denser, and sexier, and even sedentary muscle burns fat! Don't be afraid of putting on some muscle weight.
Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:04 am
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madthumbs wrote:
Stop using your weight scale! Muscle is denser, and sexier, and even sedentary muscle burns fat! Don't be afraid of putting on some muscle weight.
thats the problem with bmi... a buff person = obese according to bmi
its very simple if ur fat u have 2 choices... either be happy, or lose the weight...
u dont have to be skin and bones... like madthumbs said, a 20min walk everyday is more then enough... diets are for morons... remember moderation is key... theres nothing wrong with eating ice cream.. however u dont have to eat a whole fvcking gallon in one sitting!
im fat... im not obese, im not diabetic, and i have no problem with the way i am...
being fat also isnt always a bad thing... keeps u warm in the winter =P
being obese however is a bad thing and too many ppl are obese...
there are lotsa factors that play in ppl being obese... however common sense is usually the best cure for any ailment including obesity... sadly as many of u may have noticed common sense isnt very common...
the easiest way how to measure whether you're fat or not is to
measure fat approximately 1 inch over your hipbone.
considering burnout -
you're very right madthumbs
many ppl do a mistake when they eat improper food or train like crazy.
How body processes food is easy to understand:
when you eat carbohydrates (simple carbohydrates - fruits, vegetables)(complex carbohydrates - rice, pasta..) then your blood sugar raises and insuline starts to force this sugar into your muscle cells.
if muscle cells cant burn the sugar, its gonna pump the sugar into fat cells.
Carbohydrates are energy.
When you train, you have to make sure to eat carbs and proteins before the training,
and proteins after the training.
Another thing is - when you mix carbs with fat and you dont do enough sports - you will get fat soon.
since in that case - insuline in blood will force not only sugar from carbs into muscles and fat cells, but also fat there.
Therefore try to minimalize mixing fats with carbs.
A small note: a difference between simple and complex carbs is that 100 calories from simple carbs give you more intense energy
- i.e. 100 cal of simple carbs stays in your blood approximately half an hour (insuline is able to force 100 calories from simple carbs into your muscles in half an hour)
- with 100 calories of complex carbs it is about 2 hours.
(the numbers are approximate and vary individually)
the easiest way how to measure whether you're fat or not is to
measure fat approximately 1 inch over your hipbone.
Its a nice indicator as bmi and body fat test tend to be flawed at times.
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* You're sold on the false assumption that it's hard to lose fat!
You think the more money you spend on special foods, or personal trainers, the better off you'll be. -They just want your money!
I took offense to this one because I make a living off of it. Many people have wacky ideas about weight
loss including trainers I have to admit. But at the same time I tell people I am a guidebook and a
motivator not the magic pill to your weight loss. If you are up front with you clients they appreciate
that and don't get false expectations. I don't just want my clients money I am interested in their success
as it helps my credibility and I do what I do because it is also self fulfilling.
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Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:15 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8248 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
High Fructose Corn Syrup May Be An Invisible Factor In Obesity
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The ingredient accounts for more than 40 percent of the caloric sweeteners added to the foods we eat and drink. From bread to yogurt, our consumption has gone up dramatically in the past 30 years.
"It's gone up from about a half a pound of high fructose corn syrup a year back in the 1970s to about 75 pounds a year of high fructose corn syrup today," said Dr. Samuel Klein, director of Washington University School of Medicine's Center for Human Nutrition.
When I advise my clients and close relatives and friends that is one of the first things I tell them when I give them the sugar talk. This is one of the worst things to put in your body along with trans-fat, and aspartame. I'd say try to avoid the sugar whenever possible but these you shouldn't put into your system at all.
Corn is one of the big gmo crops out there. This the reason I try to avoid grains unless I buy it locally from my trusted farmer. Reguardless the majority of my intake of servings is fruits and vegetables unless the family is araund.
Intestinal bacteria is one of the keys to digestive health
It makes a big difference if the bacteria in your gut is balanced out and this balance maintained by eating the proper types of foods in the right combinations and proportions. If you eat badly, or have eaten badly, then it helps to take some probiotics to re-balance your internal bacterial culture.
Here's an interesting article on the effects of bacteria on obesity from mercola.com.
Two new studies show that obese people have different intestinal bacteria than slim people. What's more, the microbes in an overweight body are much more efficient at extracting calories from food.
One study looked at mice, the other looked at humans. In both, a family of bacteria known as firmicutes were more plentiful in the obese (20 percent more). Bacteria called bacteroidetes were also much more abundant in those of normal weight (the obese had almost 90 percent fewer bacteroidetes).
Most likely because of the firmicutes, the obese mice were more efficient at taking calories out of complex sugars and depositing those calories in fat. When these microbes were transplanted into the normal-weight mice, those mice started to gain twice as much fat.
As obese people lost weight, their bacteroidetes increased, while the numbers of firmicutes decreased.
I would also add that eating more often and smaller meals is a great help as it boosts your metabolic rate. I have noticed that a lot of fat people go long spans without eating, then binge. Like one huge meal a day and say they don't eat that much so it most be a "glandular" problem. The BMI is a bad system.
Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:09 pm
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Huge weight gains reported by patients on prescription drugs
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Huge weight gains reported by patients on prescription drugs
By Roger Dobson
Published: 24 June 2007
Thousands of people who take prescription medicines for everyday conditions are gaining large amounts of weight as an unexpected side effect, scientists have warned.
Researchers, who found that some patients were putting on up to 22lbs in a year, say that the drugs may even be contributing to the nation's rocketing obesity epidemic.
All of the patients they studied, on medication for conditions as diverse as diabetes, epilepsy, depression, high blood pressure and schizophrenia, showed evidence of weight increase.
"Given the common and long-term use of many of these drugs," said the researchers, "it is likely that they play a significant contributory role in the increasing prevalence of obesity."
New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows the amazing speed that our bodies make body fat from fructose. One of the reasons why low carb diets help you lose weight is that they reduce your intake of fructose.
Even though fructose, a type of sugar, is found naturally abundance in fruit, it is also added to many processed foods. Fructose is probably best known for its presence in the sweetener called high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is typically 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose. It unfortunately has become the preferred sweetener for many food manufacturers. This is because it is cheaper, sweeter and easier to blend into beverages than table sugar.
Sugar Type As Important as Calories
Dr. Elizabeth Parks, lead author of the study , said her team’s findings infer that the right kind of carbohydrates you eat may be just as important in weight control as the number of calories you eat. The study appears in the Journal of Nutrition.
“The message from this study is powerful because body fat synthesis was measured immediately after the sweet drinks were consumed,” Dr. Parks said. “The carbohydrates came into the body as sugars, the liver took the molecules apart like tinker toys, and put them back together to build fats. All this happened within four hours after the fructose drink. As a result, when the next meal was eaten, the lunch fat was more likely to be stored than burned.
“This is an underestimate of the effect of fructose because these individuals consumed the drinks while fasting and because the subjects were healthy, lean and could presumably process the fructose pretty quickly. Fat synthesis from sugars may be worse in people who are overweight or obese because this process may be already revved up.”
Blame Obesity Epidemic on Fructose?
Dr. Parks said that people trying to lose weight shouldn’t totally eliminate fruit from their diets but that limiting processed foods containing the sugar may help.
“There are lots of people out there who want to demonize fructose as the cause of the obesity epidemic,” she said. “I think it may be a contributor, but it’s not the only problem. Americans are eating too many calories for their activity level. We’re overeating fat, we’re overeating protein; and we’re overeating all sugars.”
Methodology
In the research, six healthy individuals went through three tests where they had to drink a fruit drink mix. In one test, the breakfast drink was 100 percent glucose, similar to the liquid doctors give patients to test for diabetes — the oral glucose tolerance test.
In the second test, they drank half glucose and half fructose, and in the third, they drank 25 percent glucose and 75 percent fructose. The tests were random and blinded, and the subjects ate a regular lunch about four hours later.
The researchers found that lipogenesis, the process by which sugars are turned into body fat, increased significantly when as little as half the glucose was replaced with fructose. Fructose given at breakfast also changed the way the body handled the food eaten at lunch. After fructose consumption, the liver increased the storage of lunch fats that might have been used for other purposes.
Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:15 am
madthumbs
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Why You Are Fat
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looking at how HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) can make you fat.
Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:16 am
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