mpeirce
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I don’t get the hate on carbs. I eat a lot of them, especially on run days.
For some of us, carbs drive cravings and make it harder not to over eat.
I don’t get the hate on carbs. I eat a lot of them, especially on run days.
I don’t get the hate on carbs.
I don’t get the hate on carbs. I eat a lot of them, especially on run days.
See, we are all different. I hate salad dressing, sour cream and butter, basically any greasy stuff; and have since I was a little kid who didn't know from a calorie. And I love the taste of a "bare" baked potato, and even more of a sweet potato.
Increased insulin resistance can happen to anybody, though, with age and heredity. So it's best to watch the starches and sweets even if you are thin.
Some of the things people eat - like cereal - are junk. But eating some nice dark whole grain and nut bread? 1-2 slices with butter and jam aren’t going to kill you.
I'm intensely/moderate (?) active according to the definition in this article. I walk a lot, pull 190 lb. labrador with me, 7 days/week. Work out in the forest preserves as my hobby, constantly moving out there, 3-4 days/week. Plus treading water at high level for an hour.
TDEE calculator shows "heavy exercise level" at 6-7 days/week. Bottom line, one burns most calories at rest. If you work out strenuously, your hunger level goes up and you eat more.
I see lots of construction workers standing around, operating machines that they sit at. Sure if you're jack hammering 6 hours/day, that's intense. It depends what you do on a regular basis.
No, “everything in moderation” is not fine if you have metabolic problems. A lot of people don’t get this.I almost never carb load (large intake) but still don’t see an issue with it. As my senior friend always says: ‘everything is fine in moderation’. I made some awesome cookies yesterday and half the dough went straight to the freezer.
Some of the things people eat - like cereal - are junk. But eating some nice dark whole grain and nut bread? 1-2 slices with butter and jam aren’t going to kill you.
About the only thing we eat from a box is a baking mix every couple months. Apart from a few Trader Joe’s meals here and there, we only get fresh/local premise food.
You can do it yourself with time or pay a decent amount to have it done for you - but eating fresh whole foods would probably eliminate most of the countries problems.
I really wonder if in the old days things were as sweet as today.In the old days, I think more things were sweetened with plain sugar. Now more things are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup -- maybe the same thing has happened to dog food.
The only reason I think it might be relevant is due to some articles I've seen about how the body processes sucrose vs fructose, like this one: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sucrose-glucose-fructose#absorption-and-use2 quote:
"Several studies have demonstrated the harmful effects of high fructose consumption. These include insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, obesity, fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome. In one 10-week study, people who drank fructose-sweetened beverages had an 8.6% increase in belly fat, compared to 4.8% in those who drank glucose-sweetened drinks."
I realize a lot of people debate that a calorie is a calorie (sugar OR hfcs), but not everyone believes that.
+1Indoor cats are also a lot easier on the local wild bird population.
. Dogs are carnivores..
Omnivores, I believe.
I think this is akin to the frog in the pot of water that is brought to a slow boil. The human diet was once low in all kinds of carbohydrates, then when we started to farm (10,000 years ago?) it became much more rich in carbohydrates (starch - a form of glucose) but still very low in simple carbohydrates, then simple carbohydrates (sucrose - glucose/fructose dimer) started to become more affordable (around 500 years ago) and really took off in the last 200 years, and now finally HFCS.Since sugar - sucrose - is half fructose, I suspect it’s just as bad as “high fructose” corn syrup which is only slightly higher in fructose.
Dogs are certainly carnivores, just not obligate carnivores. IOW, they are optimized for meat, but can also easily digest most carbs.
Facultative carnivores are those that also eat non-animal food in addition to animal food. Note that there is no clear line that differentiates facultative carnivores from omnivores; dogs would be considered facultative carnivores.
Indeed:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshel...at,would be considered facultative carnivores.
"You say tomato I say potato."
audreyh1 said:Liquid calories - not just the Big Gulp type sugary excess, but people are encouraged to drink plenty of fruit juice because it’s “healthy”. Well it’s not. Those nice vitamins come with a huge dose of sugar. Eat the whole fruit, don’t drink the juice.