Sublime

Item #2: Inefficient Healthcare Spending

The United States government subsidizes the raw ingredients that go into inexpensive carbohydrate-based ultra-processed foods. For example, the high-fructose corn syrup industry gets more federal funds (via subsidies for types of corn that are bred for that purpose and inedible for corn-on-the-cob

The key factor here is that fructose is metabolized in a manner different from other sugars. When we metabolize fructose, along with certain other types of foods, it produces large amounts of uric acid, which is best known as a cause of gout but which has also been associated with elevated blood pressure.

The empowering news here is that we can mimic many of these benefits in part by keeping tight reins on our bodies’ production of insulin. We can do this by engaging in brief periods of fasting (which I will introduce in chapter 6), avoiding rapidly digesting sugars, and demoting starches (especially processed grains) from mainstays in our diets to

But there is an even more insidious form of advertising called sponsorship and research. Big Food sponsors many large nutritional organizations. And then there are the medical associations. In 1988, the American Heart Association decided that it would be a good idea to start accepting cash to put its Heart Check symbol on foods of otherwise dubious

Caloric reduction and portion-control strategies only make you tired and hungry. Worst of all... you regain all the weight you have lost. I know it. You know it.