WSJ Article Says You Can Be Obese at a Normal Weight. Shocked?

Harold14370 said:
My body keeps sending me SOS signals for the essential nutrients in ice cream, potato chips, and jellybeans.
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Mine too!!

Well, technically it's okay on the jelly bean front, but it definitely could use some more chocolate. Pizza stores are low.

I think your body is bad at figuring out cravings. Like... it needs electrolytes and suddenly you crave salty chips. Or you need some protein so you crave pizza :p That's why one suggestion for hunger is that sometimes you misinterpret thirst. So have a glass of water, and hunger sometimes goes away.

Pizza, ice cream, chocolate and potato chips - aren't those the four food groups?
 
Something actually just came to mind, we've been talking of the horrors of insulin for a while now... but... really... this massive overproduction of insulin that is debated isn't really possible, not on the grand scale that is insinuated anyways.

Do you all know what the result of overproducing insulin compared to your blood sugar would result in? well first your liver would release all its glucose, when that was removed from the blood due to insulin you would faint, then go into a coma and turn into a veggie and if not rescued by someone then die.

So... while it is true, insulin from carbs > insulin from protein, it is simply because the blood sugar rise from carbs is higher. it isn't like there is suddenly a magically abnormally large amount of insulin just flowing around.. because if there was, you'd be a veggie or dead :)
 
Is the blood sugar from carbs always higher? I know some veggies are listed as having the same GI as protein. Everything I know about insulin I learned on the Internet!

(Okay, that's not really true since mom is diabetic, but it'd make a good bumper sticker!)
 
GI doesn't really say anything about the amount of energy in the food, it says something about the speed at which it is released into the blood stream.

So therefore veggies are good GI wise because the release energy slowly and more steadily into the blood stream while for instance... say... a twinkie bar will release all its energy into your bloodstream fast. Now this is a simplification but yeah.. if you want the longer story you can wiki it :) it is about how fast the stuff is chopped up to be small enough to pass through the intestine wall and into your bloodstream.

The reason the blood sugar from carbs is higher than say, protein, is because it is only a limited amount of the energy in proteins that is turned into glucose which then raises the blood sugar, all the energy (simplified again) from carbs is turned into glucose, so therefore carbs will per kj raise your blood sugar more than protein or fat yes :)

Oh, is she a type 1 or 2?
 
She's a type 2. Of course, when she was first diagnosed she got told that being diabetic meant she had to go on a low fat diet, and that alcohol could put her into a coma. ... That was back in the mid 80's.

Of course, it's also given me the impression that insulin is kind of a good thing to have, and not the devil ;)
 
Yeah, insulin shouldn't be seen as neither bad nor good, it is simply the hormone that either the body, or novozynes, produce to regulate our blood sugar :) and luckily the treatment of diabetes has come a looong way. Things like counting carbs and figuring out how much insulin we need / carb, using GI as a way of predicting blood sugar levels etc.

The alcohol part is... really weird to tell a type 2 diabetic, I mean... afaik the only risk is type 1's that get hypoglycemia and the liver being busy with the alcohol does not release glucose into the blood stream which will then possibly equal a coma if the patient doesn't get some dextrose or something like that fast :)
 
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