A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries
Any weight-loss diet must have two crucial elements. First, it must improve your body’s existing appetite and weight control system. That is essentially why most orthodox dietary regimens fail: they ask you to restrict calories by eating less, tell you to burn away the calories you do eat by moving more, and often deprive you of fatty, protein-rich
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Most of us assume, given the long history of the U.S. and other governments officially advising people to limit fat consumption, there must be a long history of compelling randomized, controlled trials conclusively demonstrating the dangers of fat. Wrong!
Henry Alkire • Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
Removing protein and fat in the diet may lead to overconsumption. There are natural satiety hormones (peptide YY, cholecystokinin) that respond to protein and fat. Eating pure carbohydrate does not activate these systems and leads to overconsumption (the second-stomach phenomenon).
Jason Fung • The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code)
This dietary niche is intuitive and instinctual. Cows don’t need to be told to graze grass, nor orangutans to pick fruit, nor lions to prey on gazelles. But we humans have lost this instinct . Left to our own devices, we eat food incongruent with our design and evolutionary past.
Saturday 7
That is hardly surprising – this had been the human diet for hundreds of thousands of years, and the human body was well adapted to it. Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
The truth is that there are multiple overlapping pathways that lead to obesity. The common uniting theme is the hormonal imbalance of hyper-insulinemia. For some patients, sugar or refined carbohydrates are the main problem. Low-carbohydrate diets may work best here. For others, the main problem may be insulin resistance. Changing meal timing or in
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