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Controlling body fat for some people means total deprivation of anything pleasurable.
And also, whenever I see this thread title, I start singing in my head "let's talk about, fat, baby, let's talk about you and me ..." Because Thursday.
On the topic of addiction and food.....I believe that's another area where we are getting misinformation and intuitively make poor choices (something else that's addressed in that documentary....Fed Up.....that I mentioned earlier).
Even when a person believes they are eating a sensible breakfast if they're eating yogurt....they could be consuming more sugar than one and a half donuts. Sugar is very addictive (and it makes us more hungry to boot). Our brains are signaled in the same way with sugar as they are with cocaine.
It was not meant in a snide way, simply as a fact that it is obviously very important to you, and just as obviously to others not as much, which is to be expected, because we are all different in what we prefer. I don't see snideness in that, more that I was summing something up.
And also, whenever I see this thread title, I start singing in my head "let's talk about, fat, baby, let's talk about you and me ..." Because Thursday.
Aaaand...now I am, too. Thanks. lol
Yes, this is a very important point. Exchanging the "unhealthy" can of soda for the "healthy" glass of orange juice isn't going to help anyone lose weight.On the topic of addiction and food.....I believe that's another area where we are getting misinformation and intuitively make poor choices (something else that's addressed in that documentary....Fed Up.....that I mentioned earlier).
Even when a person believes they are eating a sensible breakfast if they're eating yogurt....they could be consuming more sugar than one and a half donuts. Sugar is very addictive (and it makes us more hungry to boot). Our brains are signaled in the same way with sugar as they are with cocaine (actually sugar is 8x more addictive than cocaine).
FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history
A few of the myths Fed Up sets out to debunk:
that eat less, move more is an antidote to obesity
that fat people lack will power and simply need to take personal responsibility to lose weight
that the government should be doling out nutrition advice and rules
that if youre skinny, youre healthy
The Food Industry focuses on calories because that way it can blame fatness on people who lack willpower, rather than on their products, no matter how nutrient-devoid, artificial-crap-filled, etc., they are. For example, in 2013, Coke ran an ad instructing people how to count calories and fight obesity while still consuming its products.
~Review of Fed Up, The Documentary | Feed Me, I'm Cranky
Yes, this is a very important point. Exchanging the "unhealthy" can of soda for the "healthy" glass of orange juice isn't going to help anyone lose weight.
A glass of juice, whether fresh-squeezed or not, has about eight full teaspoons of sugar per eight-ounce glass. This is about as much sugar as a can of soda.
The sugar in orange juice is typically a fruit sugar called fructose, which many mistakenly believe is a “healthy” form of sugar.
When the sugar is consumed in its natural form, with the whole fruit, the fiber in the orange tends to slow the absorption of sugar and thus prevents a spike in your insulin levels. When you drink just the juice, it's too much sugar, all at once, for your system to handle.
Elevated insulin levels are one of the primary drivers for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and weight gain. This may be why drinking fruit juice has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, while fructose itself has been shown to increase your triglyceride levels.
I'm curious then, since I don't know a lot about this kind of stuff, wouldn't the juice be technically better, since it has "natural" sugar vs. the soda that has not only chemicals that can damage our system, but added sugar?
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