Calories

No one can tell this guy anything because he knows for a fact that the earth is flat. 

I think lilly might be saying that ya might lack the aptitude to guage your metabolism, water levels, strength and blood circulation - etc.

Takes time and ya won't find a whole lot in a book or magazine. 

The food you eat should gather a noted response pre an post workout.  But I'm new to all of this workout stuff.

Asomugha. You claim to study diet every day. You still come off as a dumb ass.

Healthy foods make you feel full. Unhealthy foods do not. Your little example with ice cream and veggies is meaningless.

You could eat the veggies and feel full. You couldn't with the ice cream, you'd undoubtedly crave something else. It is not realistic.

You are neglecting the fact that healthy foods can appease the appetite, while the unhealthy choices will fail to do so, making one go over and above the minimum calorie intake put forth.

Oh but you study diet every day............

slikstiks99 - Did you even read all my posts? I already said that, which is why vegetables are MUCH better to eat over ice cream still! My point was just that, there is no difference between 1000 calories from icecream or 1000 calories from vegetables WHEN IT COMES TO LOSING WEIGHT, its the same output, this means that if a little boy ONLY gets 1000 calories of icecream a day, and another boy gets 1000 calories of vegetables/meat/oats a day they will still gain / lose the same amount of weight (considering they have the same metabolism). But of course, after u have eaten 1000 calories of ice cream u will probably still be hungry, and this boy may then eat 3000 calories of them instead which is why it is bad, and there are also many health benefits for eating meat/oats/veggies over ice cream so i DID NOT say that its better to ice cream, because its not, its actually very stupid. My whole point was just that; No difference on the weight output on 1000 calories of Icecream vs. 1000 calories of vegetables.

good morning, liar

why are you still lying?



My point was just that, there is no difference between 1000 calories from icecream or 1000 calories from vegetables WHEN IT COMES TO LOSING WEIGHT, its the same output, this means that if a little boy ONLY gets 1000 calories of icecream a day, and another boy gets 1000 calories of vegetables/meat/oats a day they will still gain / lose the same amount of weight

Yeah, thats right.

Low GI foods, which cause your blood sugar levels to rise and fall slowly over time,  help you feel fuller for longer.

not all foods with a low GI are healthy




GI for those that do not know

= Glycemic Index

Thats right BMA, most Low GI foods are however more likely to be healthy, but you can also find high GI foods that are healthy like Oats. Oats are still complex carbs and slow absorbing carbs with lots of nutritional benefits. So yeah, its good to use the GI to see if a certain food is good to eat or not, so it can be used as a guideline, it is however not an exact answer. You cant see by looking at the GI what will happen to your blood sugar if u mix too things up, like sauce and rice, this way some foods may raise your blood sugar even tho they are low on the GI.

Gary Taubes

Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes

 studied
applied physics at Harvard University and aerospace engineering at Stanford University (MS, 1978).


After receiving a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981,

 Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982.


 Since then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines. Originally focusing on physics issues,


 his interests have more recently turned to medicine and nutrition.

Taubes's books have all dealt with scientific controversies.


Nobel Dreams takes a critical look at the politics and experimental techniques behind the Nobel Prize-winning work of physicist Carlo Rubbia.

 Bad Science is a chronicle of the short-lived media frenzy surrounding the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiments of 1989.

I agree with all what you have said in your posts

You exhibit the subject knowledge and understanding as would be shown by a health professional.

Some read books that are out there by controversial authors and unproven statements that have no clinical evidence base.

Yet lack the basic understanding of calories.

If people can't even grasp the significance of the daily calorie intake, then how can they understand anything about nutritional quality or about, Fats,Proteins, Carbohydrates, Vitamins, Fiber.

To achieve weight loss you have to eat less calories and use more  calories.

Evidence shows that the best way to lose weight is to make long-term changes to diet and physical activity


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i think the problem is that you two don't understand what we are saying.  we are not saying calories are meaningless.  and we are not saying that calories consumed vs. calories burned don;'t have some effect on weight.  if you ate two doughnnuts a day for a month and burned 1500 calories each day, you're going to lose weight. 

what we are saying is the calroies in vs. calories burned equation is oversimplistic, ignores many of your bodily functions and is not a healthy or effective way to go about a long term eating strategy whether you are trying to be healthy, lose weight or maintain weight. 

i'm not going to repeat why we think you guys are not so much wrong, although you are, but more just way outside of where you need to be to understand the issue.  you guys are doing simple subtraction when the issue requires calculus. 

but i think you two ultimjately answer be easy's initial question.  calories and cholksterol numbers are considered important because they oversimplify the issue making it easy for anyone to think they understand, and making success easy to allegedly prove, which at the end of the day, makes bullshit and bullshit products easier to sell, i.e. your cholesterol is x, take these pills and it will be y. 

well look what we have here, a convention of liars

welcome to the discussion, BMA the liar

I guess i need to be more specific, in that when i'm talking about weight loss, it is in reference to FAT loss. I guess you can pat eachother on the back after advising someone who'd like to lose weight, to have a limb amputated, a lobotomy, or a breast reduction

Your body does not store fat based on a surplus of calories, so it is silly to assume that causing a deficiency in caloric intake will result in FAT loss. Fat storage is regulated by hormones (insulin), via the pancreas secreting insulin as a feedback response to the liver flooding the body with glucagon.

I understand that you were instructed to think otherwise, but (wether or not this was intentional misinformation) it is misinformation. Obese people (in general) suffer from insulin sensitivity, where the feedback system breaks down from consuming complex carbs/sugars over time, and the body turns to storing more and more fat. To reverse this breakdown of our human bodys system, the solution is to disregard how many calories one takes in, and rather focus on something tangible that actually effects fat storage, and that is carbohydrates/sugar

I'm not sure what post #36 was supposed to infer, but if the two liars are as well studied on all angles of this subject matter, what do you have to say of the early 20th century works of the dentist Weston Price and his famed work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, where he scientifically linked the Western Diet and more specifically increased carbohydrate/sugar intake to most all of our collective modern health issues?

Weston Andrew Valleau Price^[1] (September 6, 1870 – January 23, 1948) was a dentist known primarily for his theories on the relationship between nutrition, dental health, and physical health. He founded the research institute of the National Dental Association, which later became the research section of the American Dental Association, and served as its chair from 1914–1928.^[2][3][4]

Price initially did dental research on the relationship between endodontic therapy and pulpless teeth and broader systemic disease, known as focal infection theory, a theory which resulted in many extractions of tonsils and teeth.^[5] Focal infection theory fell out of favor in the 1930s and was pushed to the margins of dentistry by the 1950s.^[6]

By 1930, Price had shifted his interest to nutrition. In 1939, he published Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,^[7] detailing his global travels studying the diets and nutrition of various cultures. The book concludes that aspects of a modern Western diet (particularly flour, sugar, and modern processed vegetable fats) cause nutritional deficiencies that are a cause of many dental issues and health problems. The dental issues he observed include the proper development of the facial structure (to avoid overcrowding of the teeth) in addition to dental caries. This work received mixed reviews, and continues to be cited today by proponents of many different theories, including controversial dentistry and nutritional theories.

The problem with the for profit 'professionals' in these fields is, that they can only offer up so much good information to their own detriment, until the curtain is all the way pulled back and they've rendered themselves less useful

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his paycheck is dependent on his not understanding it"

Obesity is when a person is carrying too much body fat for their height and sex.

A person is considered obese if they have a body mass index (BMI) of 30.

Today’s way of life is less physically active than it used to be.

So  calories  eaten are not getting burnt off as energy. Instead, the extra calories are stored as fat.


Without lifestyle changes to increase the amount of physical activity done on a daily basis, or reduce the amount of calories consumed, people can become obese.

Obesity is treated by losing weight,

 which can be achieved through a healthy, calorie-controlled diet and increased exercise.

Weight gain occurs when we regularly put more energy into our bodies than we use. Over time, that excess energy is stored by the body as fat.

Knowing the calorie content of foods can be a useful tool when it comes to achieving or maintaining a healthy weight.


 It can help us to keep track of the amount of energy we are eating and drinking, and ensure we're not consuming too much.

that's a good analogy.  there are ways of understanding weight loss that are completely off the mark and show a complete misunderstanding of how your body works- amputate an arm, have one of those colonics that flush out all the buildup in your colon, put on a rubber suit and go run in the 95 degree weather and take those pills that make you lose your water weight and finally, burn more calories than you take in without distinguishing between good calories and what bad calories do to your system.  all of those are ways to lose weight in the short term (none of them healthy or sustainable) and all of them are misguided ways of approaching the issue.

post #40

the link between nutritional  and disease is well known. Period.

Just a few here

Scurvy
Rickets
Iron Deficiency Anemia
Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Coeliac Disease (Gluten Enteropathy)

Obesity as a risk for Cardiovascular Disease, Type2 diabetes Hypertension

Did Mr Price document the relationship between dental health and smoking, or the relationship between dental health and dental hygiene, or the role of genetics in dental health.

repeat post #43

Obesity is treated by losing weight,

 which can be achieved through a healthy, calorie-controlled diet and increased exercise.

 It can help us to keep track of the amount of energy we are eating and drinking

yes, calories are helpful for that as calories are merely a unit of measurement of energy producing potential from food.  and if you stopped there, i think we'd all agree.  but you take that definition and apply to everything involving weight loss to try to oversimplify a compelx issue. 

Lets make it crystal clear.

Its not Astro Physics


A healthy, balanced diet is an ESSENTIAL part of maintaining good health.

simple


    Eat the right number of calories for how active you are, so that you balance the energy you consume with the energy you use. If you eat or drink too much, you’ll put on weight. If you eat too little you’ll lose weight.


    Eat a wide range of foods to ensure that you’re getting a balanced diet and that your body is receiving all the nutrients it needs.


Hard to put it any simpler.

Calories are a significant unit ..

That's why they are included on food packaging.


Tips

Base your meals on starchy foods
   
Eat lots of fruit and veg
   
Eat more fish
   
Cut down on saturated fat and sugar
   
Eat less salt
   
Get active and be a healthy weight
   
Don't get thirsty
   
Don’t skip breakfast