I'm not saying that doesn't make it healthier but it's still going to have a higher fructose content than historically. Even if you're only growing your own seasonal fruit you're still going to be getting a lot more than you would have foraging in ancient times and fruit just wasn't a big part of peoples diets until relatively recently.
My great grandmother once got an apple for Christmas.
Or an orange, i'm a bit hazy, I was told this a while back.
I am not saying that fruits should be consumed everyday, either.
I am having couple of servings monthly, maybe even less.
But there are tons of added sugars - fructose and all other modern additives that claim zero calories -that are damaging health in many other ways.
I agree. But I will die on the hill that the primary issue is caloric intake. Other factors such as the one your pushing, medication, sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, high stress all contribute though.
Thinking I should pull together some notes and do a post on how bad sucralose is for you...
While overeating is a problem, there are much worse issues. All calories are not made equal.
Also gut and liver health is extremely important. And much more factors than just calculating calories are involved.
Fasting to lower your calories intake while stuffing yourself with sugars and processed food will still might make you thin but also sick.
To add a bit to the fruit note, if you eat a fruit, you get also fibres. Not just fructose. And if non-toxic, the fibres will make your gut microbiome happy and well fed.
But yeah - better have the fibres from veggies.
Yes, certainly comparing fruit to drinking fruit juice, fruit is the better choice for this reason. My admittedly weak understanding is that the prebiotic value of fruit fibre is heavily dependent on which fruit you are talking about though.
Real fasting (not IF) has positive effects on cholesterol, blood sugar and bf%. It is even considered anti-carcinogenic due to autophagy. About the only negative is hormone suppression, but that rebounds at the end of the fast. Occasional fasts are possibly the healthiest thing people can do.
That being true, all those will take effect even without fasting. Just eliminate processed food.
That doctor was doing experiments with obese kids. They took them off processed food, while trying to make them maintain weight making them eat more if the scale showed less every day.
They liver fat went down almost instantly. In like 10 days or so.
Here is the video that made me grab the book:
Got to go!
You will only induce autophagy by using a ketogenic diet if not fasting. So, not just eliminating sugar but eliminating carbs altogether. There are reasons not to do this long term and some people can't do it at all.
Sorry - that was the video but I think the author is the same.
So once again this is the guy claiming that fat is actually healthy in that previous screencap right?
He said that out of all obese people 20% do not develop metabolic syndrome and that the rest had metabolic syndrome before they started to gain fat and that it is a symptom rather than cause of the metabolic syndrome.
So if everyone else got sick *before* they got fat, that implies that being fat is actually protective of getting sick in the first place. Ridiculous.
Not protecting from metabolic syndrome doh.
Maybe other kinds of protection of the body yet.
But that is certainly the implication from his words is it not? They may be clumsy but that is what he says both in the book and then repeats it in that video. He doesn't say a portion of the 80%, but 80% got sick before they got fat and the other 20% don't get sick.
In the book he states the numbers.
Yes, I know you posted the screenshot earlier. That's how I know he says the same thing in the book as the podcast. Face it, any time someone tells you this "one weird trick" they're a scammer.
The doctor is with tons of experience and supportive data.
Why should I trust you better?
Plus what is he selling exactly?
I downloaded the book tbh.
You might have, but he is selling the book isn't he?
At the end of the day "Eat less food" is something fat people don't want to hear so they will pay money for books and programmes that will tell them something else that they do want to hear. I am not saying eat less sugar & processed food is bad advice, but particularly the processed food advice can be expensive. Eating less food literally saves you money no matter what food that might be. It is advice that anyone can take, most people just don't want to hear it.
Might be more expensive for those living in the city, but there are also tons of other evidence that current monoculture farming is terrible for the soil and the nature. Not to mention that the most sugar is in the processed foods.
And where I live actually there are small farms, even not registered, that sell over Facebook. They sell naturally cured meats, no preservatives, no additives, home made diary products, jars of canned foods, etc. that actually cost less than the dead food that is sold in the stores.
My father is going strong into regenerative agriculture, producing we are canning our own food for the winter and making our own sauerkraut.
We don’t raise animals, yet…
That is not more expensive than going and buying food from the other side of the world just for the fancy label super food or whatnot.
That's great but I do think you're vastly overestimating how expensive the cheapest processed food is.
Once again, *if* you can do this great, but do you really believe this is largely repeatable advice for people?
"Bro, just buy land and start farming and canning your own food",
Well, the dude was saying that there was periods in history that factory made food made sense to battle the famine. But it is not the case now. And instead of pouring tons of government and business money in treating the symptoms without much effect, those money can go into prevention and make the food real and more affordable.
Food is real now, and healthy food is incredibly cheap. It doesn’t cost much to buy fresh produce and chicken, which is a solid foundation for meals.
