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Re: New Medical Study
Fine, shrink my brain - and I really hope the part that shrinks is any part remembering all these B.S. studies I have read over the past 20 years about how I need to be eating low fat and low calorie blah blah blah and anything else is going to kill me or give me a fatal disease rather promptly. I don't even read them 98% of the time anymore. Wait a month or two and some other study will come out and contradict it anyway, or backtrack off the implications that can be made from the study.
I ate low fat and tried to control calories and didn't pay any attention to carbs for most of my adult life, and what that got me was near-constant hunger, unstable blood sugar symptoms, feeling like crap, blood pressure and cholesterol levels creeping up every year, and my high weight of 351. I always instinctively felt I needed to eat more real foods, whole foods, non-processed foods, foods not altered with junk to make them "low fat", fewer carbs and more protein and good fats. And as soon as I quit listening to the mass media crap and most folks around me and just started followed my own instincts, first with a whole foods diet and then to Atkins style primarily whole foods diet, I have been feeling better and losing weight ever since and am continuing to do so.
And to tell you the truth, even if I *DID* believe any of the studies I have read about how high fat or higher protein or whatever it is I do that is supposedly bad for me is going to make me die an early death... WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE AT ALL... I would honestly trade weighing a normal weight for the next 30 years or so and feeling good than another 40 years of being tired, morbidly obese, diabetic, disabled, repeatedly failing on their low calorie and low fat diets and/or being put on all kinds of pills to deal with the symptoms of my poor health, which is what the "popular" diets all seemed to be pushing me towards.
One of these days they will study the right things and decide controlling carbs and insulin is the real deal. Until then, whatever... makes no difference to me what they report.
Fine, shrink my brain - and I really hope the part that shrinks is any part remembering all these B.S. studies I have read over the past 20 years about how I need to be eating low fat and low calorie blah blah blah and anything else is going to kill me or give me a fatal disease rather promptly. I don't even read them 98% of the time anymore. Wait a month or two and some other study will come out and contradict it anyway, or backtrack off the implications that can be made from the study.
I ate low fat and tried to control calories and didn't pay any attention to carbs for most of my adult life, and what that got me was near-constant hunger, unstable blood sugar symptoms, feeling like crap, blood pressure and cholesterol levels creeping up every year, and my high weight of 351. I always instinctively felt I needed to eat more real foods, whole foods, non-processed foods, foods not altered with junk to make them "low fat", fewer carbs and more protein and good fats. And as soon as I quit listening to the mass media crap and most folks around me and just started followed my own instincts, first with a whole foods diet and then to Atkins style primarily whole foods diet, I have been feeling better and losing weight ever since and am continuing to do so.
And to tell you the truth, even if I *DID* believe any of the studies I have read about how high fat or higher protein or whatever it is I do that is supposedly bad for me is going to make me die an early death... WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE AT ALL... I would honestly trade weighing a normal weight for the next 30 years or so and feeling good than another 40 years of being tired, morbidly obese, diabetic, disabled, repeatedly failing on their low calorie and low fat diets and/or being put on all kinds of pills to deal with the symptoms of my poor health, which is what the "popular" diets all seemed to be pushing me towards.
One of these days they will study the right things and decide controlling carbs and insulin is the real deal. Until then, whatever... makes no difference to me what they report.
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