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Another theory on obesity
February 10, 2012 at
06:25 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua
There are many theories on the causes of obesity. Some say too much fat, too many calories. Ironically, many of the modern diets have generally failed to fix the problem.
The above video is long. For people who will reply with tl;dr here is the synopsis:
Watch it if you get a chance. I really enjoyed it and found it both eye opening and informative, without needing some shock factor or sex to sell it. It follows a simple premise and makes a lot of sense.
There are many theories on the causes of obesity. Some say too much fat, too many calories. Ironically, many of the modern diets have generally failed to fix the problem.
The above video is long. For people who will reply with tl;dr here is the synopsis:
Watch it if you get a chance. I really enjoyed it and found it both eye opening and informative, without needing some shock factor or sex to sell it. It follows a simple premise and makes a lot of sense.
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Glucose is not the problem. It's sucrose (which is one part fructose and one part glucose) and how our bodies deal with them and how much of them is in everything we eat. We can break down glucose no problem, fructose is another store.
He doesn't blame sugar, he blames sugar being in everything as a part of gov legislation to win re-elections by making food cheap.
Again, that being said, there are primary and secondary reasons for obesity. His case is in increase in sugar consumption is a key primary cause and presents data to support it.
If you have evidence to support this, I'd like to see it (I'm serious, I would really like to see it, I'm not being cynical). I take things with a grain of salt, that being said, I don't accuse people w/o evidence to support it. I don't support his evidence to tax sugar, I support his evidence to stop subsidizing sugar.
Like I said, I love my junk food. I do not stop my kids from having junk food. I just have the rules that go along with it.
I am fine with sugar. I will never blame sugar for the problem. I will always blame the schools, I will always blame the parents, I will always blame the government for their incorrect agenda of dumping money into food programs in schools instead of the physical education programs. On the latter, I don't care if schools sell cookies or Twinkies or whatever as long as they don't cut out physical education. Unfortunately, Phys Ed is the first thing that gets cut.
My entire argument in this thread is based on the first line in your spoiler: The problem is sugar - PERIOD.
There's a secondary cause of the above bold. Phys ed is part of the piece (stabilize metabolism, reduce stress, etc.), but there is more underlying data.
Again, we don't disagree. Watch the video when you have time and bump this thread.
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umm hai?
Glucose is not the problem. It's sucrose (which is one part fructose and one part glucose) and how our bodies deal with them and how much of them is in everything we eat. We can break down glucose no problem, fructose is another store.
He doesn't blame sugar, be blames sugar being in everything as a part of gov legislation to win re-elections by making food cheap.
Again, that being said, there are primary and secondary reasons for obesity. His case is in increase in sugar consumption is a key primary cause and presents data to support it.
The US isn't even in the top ten consumers of sugar per-capita. http://www.mapsofworld
There's a secondary cause of the above bold. Phys ed is part of the piece (stabilize metabolism, reduce stress, etc.), but there is more underlying data.
Again, we don't disagree. Watch the video when you have time and bump this thread.
After all is said and done, we seem to agree on most points. I just had a problem with that first line in your spoiler. Replace the word 'sugar' with 'parents' and we are done here.
The US isn't even in the top ten consumers of sugar per-capita. http://www.mapsofworld
Those places eat a lot more fiber than we do (we remove fiber to increase shelf life, while other places generally don't unless they're eating food we've sent to them).
Again, the video presents all this.
After all is said and done, we seem to agree on most points. I just had a problem with that first line in your spoiler. Replace the word 'sugar' with 'parents' and we are done here.
How the heck as I supposed to fit everything we've gone through in the OP without every response being TL;DR?
Those places eat a lot more fiber than we do (we remove fiber to increase shelf life, while other generally places don't unless they're eating food we've sent to them).
Again, the video presents all this.
This I can agree with. All that fat-ass farkers eating Twinkies and bon-bons instead of picking up an apple or some broccoli.
If this video is 90minutes, I'm not going to watch it. I don't have the time for it, and I find other things to be more important than understanding one persons opinion on the root cause of obesity.
That was way too definitive. No room for negotiation.
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I think there is to much sugar in everything and it is poison to our bodies and our bodies functions. But I still eat it