Reddit reviews Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Yes and no. This is like saying a flat tax makes taxes simpler. It is not the calculating the tax that is difficult. It is calculating the income.

Likewise it is calculating how much you are burning that is problematic. The body will do things to thwart weight loss when detecting caloric deficits like lowering your resting metabolic rate. Meanwhile the cravings for food just increase. A person only has so much will power. Most people will fail if they continue to try this same path. The trick is to work with with hormones to lesson those cravings and/or sustain the metabolic rates so that the deficit calculation is correct.

Adding up the number of calories you eat is relatively easy. Calculating how many calories you are burning is a lot tougher and more variable. THAT is the hard part in the over-simplistic statement weight-loss = calorie in < calorie out.

Read Fat Chance for a more complete read and the science.

I haven't watched the video, but I have read his book. Basically, in nature, it is very hard to get lots of fructose quickly. In fruits and other plants it is packaged with fiber which makes it filling and honey is guarded by bees, so the amount of fructose you can absorb quickly is limited.

However, in fruit juice, the fiber is gone, so his advice is to eat fruit, but do not drink fruit juice, as fruit juice is just as sugary as soda. He also says to avoid honey, as it is just sugar (and the bees are no longer guarding it).

You should read a book and educate yourself on that. But I'm sure you know more than medical science.

El orlistat lo unico que hace es evitar el metabolismo de grasas, o sea no sirve mucho si te clavas un paquete de galletitas, y vas a cagar aceite. El real problema es el azucar y la produccion de insulina. Tu cuerpo no te pide comida porque le falta nutricion, es una relacion super compleja entre señales hormonales como la insulina, la leptina y el cortisol.

Si realmente te interesa el tema podes ver este video: http://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM

O directamente leerte estos libros:

http://michaelpollan.com/books/in-defense-of-food/

http://www.amazon.es/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed/dp/159463100X

EDIT: ah las de venta libre y herbalife son chamuyo, usalas si te gusta regalar plata

It's your body adapting to your new fuel source. Without all the refined and heavily processed sugars and starches provided by those sources like bread and potatoes, your body needs to adapt to finding a different source of fuel; ie. your fat cells. The hormones insulin and leptin are in a constant dance trying to regulate your body composition; when you have high carb foods, this causes an insulin spike which then leads to more fat production because insulin regulates the fat creation.

It's a really fascinating process and if you're interested, I suggest picking up the book Fat Chance. It really opened my eyes as to what's going on in my body when I eat anything. After reading the book, I've found it extremely easy to pay attention to what I'm eating and control it as well. It opens your eyes as to the practices of the food industry and the level of misinformation that we're fed.

Brain damage, damaged vagus nerve, Prader Willi, the list goes on.

EDIT: While I'm in no way defending the uglies of fat logic, obesity is a lot more than "eat less and exercise more" as this subreddit likes to think. Biological forces are in charge of energy balance and once you fuck up that feedback loop strict willpower just won't cut it for weight loss.

EDIT 2: Keep downvoting me, but after you hit that arrow go and read this and this

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Title | Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Description | Watch "The Skinny on Obesity" with Dr. Lustig: http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717] More UCTV videos about sugar: http://www.uctv.tv/sugar Dr. Lustig's book (comes out Dec 27, 2012), "Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease": http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed/dp/159463100X Thank you to Centar dr Gifing for providing the Serbian subtitles for Sugar the Bitter Truth. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cXfUiAey9wzYg3K_eR_zg
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In this book (Fat Chance) FAT CHANCE by Dr. Lustig he says that drinking a juiced or even a blended orange will be less "healthy", than eating that orange because the mechanical process of breaking the food also breaks the fibers.

(And I'm quoting freely from memory here..) he says that basically what your'e left with is a sugar drink with vitamins. And since none of us in the western world ever suffer from vitamin C deficiency you might as well just have a glass of coke.

EDIT: btw its a really good book thats available as an audio book. I do recommend listening to it

EDIT2:updated link, not sure why there are two so similar titles

EDIT3: Finally found the paragraph so you can read it. As other people have pointed out; this may be codswallop