* Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> [Feb 14. 2015 07:40]:
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I pretty much agree on everything, but...
4. People used to think that _consuming_ fat led to fat people; we now know it is the opposite: consuming carbs lead to fat people. Consuming fat encourages the body to burn fat, whereas consuming carbs encourages the body to store fat. In fact, consuming carbs upregulates insulin, which inhibits the burning of fat.
To me it seems there is a "carb hysteria" (in the US) right now, very much parallel to the "cholesterol hysteria". Water bottles with "zero carb" on them? You gotta be kidding! Try the following: few kilometer swim (as fast as possible). Once with no special preparation, once where you eat a metric eff-ton of pasta the day before (750 gram dry pasta should do). The difference is drastic. Long distance runners should tell the same story (I have heard the variation "two such days of pasta"). Warren might want to have say here. The unqualified statement "fat does not make you fat" (or even "makes you slim" as you say with "it is the opposite") reeks of wishful thinking (but see below). Rural Bavaria gives you plenty examples of "fat makes fat fugly people" (to an apparently somewhat lesser extent since the mid 1990s). Neither pasta nor fat nor anything in particular makes you fat. Not burning the energy taken in makes you fat. Some people are unlucky and have to watch that balance all the time, and very carefully. Others (me!) can eat three times of what is needed and stay very very slim (at least while young). When young ( < 30 years old) and my diet was "at least twice of what's needed, all the time" I could see the net of almost microscopic blood vessels on my belly (but, damn, I'd get could quick in water!). Here I ignored the very small and very unlucky amount of people who are "lardarse by nature". They do exist but the number is _significantly_ below the number of morbidly obese persons we have today. Best, jj
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