This is not an opinion. It is just something I picked up from a few places while researching weight loss.
A lot of people concern themselves with counting carbs, watching fat intake and counting calories. Here is a thought. The low carb diet stresses low carbs and high fat. The Japanesse eat a diet of high carbs and low fat. Both diet plans produce the same result even though they are in direct opposition to each other. They do have on thing in common though. Sugar is not included in the diet.
You want to know why we have an obesity epidemic in this country and who is to blame for it? I'll tell you. This is not a hateful comment it is true and you can look it up if you don't believe me. The person responsible for the strong presence of obesity in America is Richard Nixon. I have nothing against him and think he was a very good politician, just a little bit sloppy in the decision making catagory. But one thing he did forty years ago affects us to this day. Here's what happened.
At the time of the '72 election there was an issue with fluctuating food prices the gas does today. Nixon wanted to remove this issue from the election so he went to his secretary of agriculture Earl "Rusty" Butts (that is a real name look it up) and told him to stablize the food prices. So Mr. Butts put a plan into action that removed most of the fiber from food an replaced it with sodium to increase the shelf life. Everything tasted horrible so he hid the taste with high-fructose corn syrup. Ever hear of that stuff? It's in everything and this is why.
Now for what that does to the body. Once injested if not used up, sugar turns to fat. Along the way part of the process is to turn it into an aldehyde. Sound familiar? Kind of like formaldehyde. That's exactly what it does. You have this stuff in you and it slowly disolves the organs. As to how much fat it's like this. There is enough sugar in a twenty ounce coke that if you don't burn it off it has the potential to turn to 15 pounds of fat in a year. I'm paraphrasing a lecture on Nutritional Science from Cal Berkley. Nancy Amy is the Professor. If you have an issue with this tell her. Actually please don't. She is a nice lady. I listened to all her lectures and she's pretty cool.
The bad sugar is refined or processed sugar. Fructose is natural but it has something to go with it. Nature is smart. Sugar in general is bad but nature always provides the antidote. Fiber is the antidote to sugar. All fruit has fiber in it so it's ok. Ever see sugarcane? It's a stick basically. A rule to watch is twice the fiber for amount of sugar. I did not come up with this, nature did. This information came from a guest lecturer at Cornell so again just passing it along.
You're on the internet right now. Go check it out. Find a graph of any obesity study in America and notice how it really starts to climb in the early seventies. If you can avoid sugar alone you will see an immediate change in your weight plan.
A lot of people concern themselves with counting carbs, watching fat intake and counting calories. Here is a thought. The low carb diet stresses low carbs and high fat. The Japanesse eat a diet of high carbs and low fat. Both diet plans produce the same result even though they are in direct opposition to each other. They do have on thing in common though. Sugar is not included in the diet.
You want to know why we have an obesity epidemic in this country and who is to blame for it? I'll tell you. This is not a hateful comment it is true and you can look it up if you don't believe me. The person responsible for the strong presence of obesity in America is Richard Nixon. I have nothing against him and think he was a very good politician, just a little bit sloppy in the decision making catagory. But one thing he did forty years ago affects us to this day. Here's what happened.
At the time of the '72 election there was an issue with fluctuating food prices the gas does today. Nixon wanted to remove this issue from the election so he went to his secretary of agriculture Earl "Rusty" Butts (that is a real name look it up) and told him to stablize the food prices. So Mr. Butts put a plan into action that removed most of the fiber from food an replaced it with sodium to increase the shelf life. Everything tasted horrible so he hid the taste with high-fructose corn syrup. Ever hear of that stuff? It's in everything and this is why.
Now for what that does to the body. Once injested if not used up, sugar turns to fat. Along the way part of the process is to turn it into an aldehyde. Sound familiar? Kind of like formaldehyde. That's exactly what it does. You have this stuff in you and it slowly disolves the organs. As to how much fat it's like this. There is enough sugar in a twenty ounce coke that if you don't burn it off it has the potential to turn to 15 pounds of fat in a year. I'm paraphrasing a lecture on Nutritional Science from Cal Berkley. Nancy Amy is the Professor. If you have an issue with this tell her. Actually please don't. She is a nice lady. I listened to all her lectures and she's pretty cool.
The bad sugar is refined or processed sugar. Fructose is natural but it has something to go with it. Nature is smart. Sugar in general is bad but nature always provides the antidote. Fiber is the antidote to sugar. All fruit has fiber in it so it's ok. Ever see sugarcane? It's a stick basically. A rule to watch is twice the fiber for amount of sugar. I did not come up with this, nature did. This information came from a guest lecturer at Cornell so again just passing it along.
You're on the internet right now. Go check it out. Find a graph of any obesity study in America and notice how it really starts to climb in the early seventies. If you can avoid sugar alone you will see an immediate change in your weight plan.
