I find it hilarious when anyone spews their particular chosen talking point on which food or ingredient or whatever is the one to blame whatever problem on. Salt, sugar, carbs, gluten, lactose, etc.. and all these bullshit diets, and all the doctors and scientists and idiots who say one thing one week and the exact opposite the next. Then there’s the FDA, pushing a food pyramid largely constructed by lobbyists, etc etc..
Here’s something to try: Whatever you eat, eat it in MODERATION. Try it just once, you might be amazed! It doesn’t matter what you eat if you eat too much of it. You can be on any diet you want, but if you eat more calories than you burn off, you WILL gain weight, period. If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you WILL lose weight. Understand how this works? It’s remarkably simple.
Now, eating nothing but Twinkies and drinking nothing but eggnog isn’t healthy for sure, but if you consume them in moderation based on calories in/out, you won’t gain weight. But of course nobody does that. They grab the box of Twinkies and go to town, then eat their second dinner afterward, followed by their before-bed snack. And then they go on twitter and complain about processed food.
This shit ain’t complicated, even though most people try to make it complicated. You don’t need to get stupid, just use some common sense. It ain’t rocket science. But it does require will power, and most people just don’t have it. No willpower + cheap and readily available food of all kinds means FAT.
AMERICA IS ADDICTED TO MONEY so there is little consequences to selling shit products that actually destroy society.
Clearly the food pyramid is not working in the USA [Yet Japan has the same food pyramid but different foods]
Telling somebody to eat in moderation is purely putting the blame on the customer for purchasing their shit products.
It is like a drug dealer saying "you should use less heroin"
Your analogy of Twinkies and Eggnog based on the Calories in/out theory is totally wrong.
From a numbers perspective it is correct
but there is biology involved [and the human body always adapts to short term demands /expenditure]
Biologically the human body
is designed for self preservation, this goes back 1000's of year to us being hunter/gatherers.
There is zero essential carbohydrates needed for survival, because our bodies can produce the necessary glucose in the liver [called gluconeogenesis]
The body only needs between 30g-50g glucose per day, so when this is exceeded insulin is used to store the excess [as body fat]
So from calories in/out theory if you needed and consumed 3000 calories per day of fats and protein it would be a zero some game.
Now if this same 3000 calories was consumed as pure carbohydrates/sugars you would get 2 things happening
1: a dopamine spike [reward in the brain]
2: an insulin spike which causes carbohydrates/sugar calories to be stored [for later] creating a short term energy shortfall
After you "come down" off your spikes 2 things happen.
You get hungry for more [due to the lack of available energy]
You get lazy [due to lack of available energy]
Dopamine makes you want more and more and more
The human does not want to give up it's stored energy
The type of Food is what makes the person "fat and lazy" [they are actually the victims here]
And the food industry doesn't want to change at all because their business model works for them.[a perfect storm]
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