Tag: carbohydrates

The case against carbohydrates gets stronger

Via The LA Times

As anyone who’s gone on a diet knows, once you lose some weight, it gets harder to lose more. The “eat less, move more” mantra, as simple as it sounds, doesn’t help us deal with our bodies’ metabolic reality: As we shed pounds, we get even hungrier and our metabolism slows down.

But findings from a new study I led with my colleague Cara Ebbeling suggest that what we eat — not just how much — has a substantial effect on our metabolism and thus how much weight we gain or lose.

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I KNEW I WAS ABOVE AVERAGE

The average woman now weighs what an average man weighed in 1960. Who says women don’t have equal rights?

I find it fascinating that our weight started soaring at the exact same time that consumer debt began soaring in the early 1980’s. Corporate fascism and the banking cabal captured our economic system and used their propaganda machine to sell toxic processed chemicals, disguised as food, to the increasingly dumbed down and sedated masses. TV, iGadgets, carbohydrate rich corporate carb enriched crap, and suburban sprawl requiring autos to get anywhere have combined to create the Obese States of America.

Who benefits?

The mega-corporations peddling toxic faux food.

The medical industrial complex peddling pills to treat all the ailments created by the toxic faux food.

The bankers supplying the debt to consume the faux food and pay for the pills to treat the symptoms.

He ain’t heavy, he’s your obese brother.

Via Zero Hedge