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**Bugamerka** · 10-24-2011, 10:59 PM

I am really passing this lecture around, it is about an hour and half but will answer so many of your questions. Please watch it and let me know what you think. It has changed me and I wish it had been available years ago. W have been fed so many lies about food. The worst thing for us is processed sugar and fructose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpF...e_gdata_player

Thanks Arad,

I think i was listening to Gary Taubes or someone with the same ideas on the radio about two days before "the beginning" and that is really what clicked for me, because it agreed with the personal observations (start of this thread) and the fact that when i ate carbs i was soon hungry, and only a meal with substantial meat left me "full" for more than 90 minutes."

After watching this - i have to admit i'm pretty confused, because the idea that the "medical science" has been so wrong for so long about this is rather difficult to comprehend.

Specifically, the "calorie equation"

Calories(Eaten) = Calories(Burned) + Calories(Stored)

Means to get thin you eat less or exercise more.

I was thinking earlier today: "but what if the body only absorbs the calories it needs from the food you consume and disposes the rest".

Calories(Eaten) = Calories(Burned) + Calories(Stored) - Calories (Disposed)

Do we always convert all the food energy we eat into glucose? Seems implausible. How does that explain people who are naturally slim no matter what? Its not like they are hotter to the touch. I have an economics background so it is natural for me to re-write the equation like this.

Demand = Supply
Calories(Burned) + Calories(Stored) = Calories(Eaten) + Calories (Disposed)

The demand side of this is asking the question: "how fat does your body want to be?" which translates to how hungry we are. How much we eat follows how hungry we are like supply follows demand in any economic equation.

Atkins and Taubes believe that the demand for calories to store is a function of how much insulin promoting simple carbs we consume. Do i have that right?

So really what we are talking about is a controversy between demand side nutritionists vs. supply side nutritionists.

Weird. Funny and Weird.

10-24-2011, 10:59 PM	#7
Bugamerka Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	I am really passing this lecture around, it is about an hour and half but will answer so many of your questions. Please watch it and let me know what you think. It has changed me and I wish it had been available years ago. W have been fed so many lies about food. The worst thing for us is processed sugar and fructose. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpF...e_gdata_player Thanks Arad, I think i was listening to Gary Taubes or someone with the same ideas on the radio about two days before "the beginning" and that is really what clicked for me, because it agreed with the personal observations (start of this thread) and the fact that when i ate carbs i was soon hungry, and only a meal with substantial meat left me "full" for more than 90 minutes." After watching this - i have to admit i'm pretty confused, because the idea that the "medical science" has been so wrong for so long about this is rather difficult to comprehend. Specifically, the "calorie equation" Calories(Eaten) = Calories(Burned) + Calories(Stored) Means to get thin you eat less or exercise more. I was thinking earlier today: "but what if the body only absorbs the calories it needs from the food you consume and disposes the rest". Calories(Eaten) = Calories(Burned) + Calories(Stored) - Calories (Disposed) Do we always convert all the food energy we eat into glucose? Seems implausible. How does that explain people who are naturally slim no matter what? Its not like they are hotter to the touch. I have an economics background so it is natural for me to re-write the equation like this. Demand = Supply Calories(Burned) + Calories(Stored) = Calories(Eaten) + Calories (Disposed) The demand side of this is asking the question: "how fat does your body want to be?" which translates to how hungry we are. How much we eat follows how hungry we are like supply follows demand in any economic equation. Atkins and Taubes believe that the demand for calories to store is a function of how much insulin promoting simple carbs we consume. Do i have that right? So really what we are talking about is a controversy between demand side nutritionists vs. supply side nutritionists. Weird. Funny and Weird.
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