What Really Makes Us Fat: Are All Calories Equal?

by Fef Posted 2012/07/02 20:57:48

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Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital conducted a diet study that the American Medical Association published last week. The study suggests that some calories help weight loss dieting better than others.

The New York Times reports:New research shows that not all calories are created equal. That might help us figure out how to keep people from getting fat.

From this perspective, the trial suggests that among the bad decisions we can make to maintain our weight is exactly what the government and medical organizations like the American Heart Association have been telling us to do: eat low-fat, carbohydrate-rich diets, even if those diets include whole grains and fruits and vegetables.

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frank 2012/07/03 18:47:47

Calories Are Not Equal

As long as people sit on their asses and become couch potato’s we will continue to gain weight. If we can get off the couch or away from the computer and start getting active the pounds will start to come off.

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none 2012/07/03 04:45:44

Calories Are Equal

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Too many calories and not enough exercise to burn them off. Stop eating so much fat ass.

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EdVenture 2012/07/03 04:45:17

Calories Are Equal

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I don't think it's the issue at hand, we need to add healthful living to our educational curriculum and put pressure on the food industry, profit before health is a dead end.

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cynsity 2012/07/03 03:22:00

Calories Are Equal

All Calories are equal and have NOTHING to do with weight gain! You gain weight because you do not eat proper portions you eat high CARB (aka sugar) foods and you do not excerise which if you did THEN maybe what calories you took in would matter.

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Jackal 2012/07/03 00:31:53

Calories Are Not Equal

I don't understand the answers...

Anyway, what makes us fat is not the calories. Counting calories is futile and it doesn't help you lose weight. Over eating is what makes you gain weight. SUGAR is the trigger that makes you gain weight.

This is what is actually happening...

-You eat something sugar or drink a sugary beverage... you sugar level skyrockets...
-Your body pumps out natural insulin to try to balance it...
- but ends up dropping you sugar level lower than normal...
-So in order to balance out the sugar level in your blood you feel hungry and you eat some more.
-Which then skyrockets your sugar level above normal again.. and thus the cycle continues.

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cynsity to Jackal 2012/07/03 03:19:58

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YEAh finally someone else who gets it... that is the primary cycle.. as well you add in that most feelings of HUNGER are actually thirst and add that many people do not understadn that almost every food has natuyral sugars and all food is converted into sugar by the body...

To counter sugar high cycles the body must have proteins which slow teh absorbation of sugars.

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JanHopkins to Jackal 2012/07/03 05:33:55

Hmm. There must be something wrong with me. I can eat all the sugar I want and be bone skinny. It's the high fat intake that will make me gain weight.

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Jackal to JanHopkins 2012/07/04 02:59:44

Sugar is merely a trigger that makes you begin the cycle of over eating. Just sugar alone doesn't make you fat... it makes you diabetic...

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JanHopkins to Jackal 2012/07/04 04:03:49

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Nope. My husband who never liked sugar is diabetic. I, on the other hand, was checked for diabeties because of my high sugar diet and the doctor could not believe how fast my body can assimilate sugar. He said, "your body knows exactly what to do with sugar so don't worry."

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Jackal to JanHopkins 2012/07/04 14:17:01

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That was suppose to be a joke about diabetics, but I see that it wasn't funny because your husband is diabetic.

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JanHopkins to Jackal 2012/07/04 23:19:01

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No problemo.

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Rubyking 2012/07/03 00:12:55

Calories Are Equal

depends I think

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Sister Jean 2012/07/02 20:59:12

Calories Are Not Equal

and need to work em off

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