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Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose

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Fructose, a new paper proposes, is the pernicious little demon driving so many human metabolisms towards obesity.

Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose
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  • You say to solve obesity eat less. What you're actually saying is that people should starve.

    And not starve on a calorie basis, you're fine with meeting the calories they need to function, you're telling them to starve nutritionally.

    You're telling them to ignore their bodies number one desire, which is to live, in order to meet an aesthetic.

    I'm telling you that that will not work.

    That will not work because the food that is available in the caloric amounts available is nutritionally insufficient to survive on for many people.

    And you ignore the mind body connection, assuming that it's simply a matter of thought to tell your body that no you have eaten enough food and you're not going to eat anymore that's all you fucking get when your body is telling your mind that it is starving and it needs more food and it's not going to function until you provide it for me

    The human diet is not a solved equation.

    If all food were the same then how can you starve to death with a full belly of rabbit meat?

    If all food were the same, how can you die of malnutrition eating only fish?

    I'm telling you the root cause of modern-day obesity is that obese people have either a natural predisposition or a genetic requirement for a different nutrient profile than the foods that are commonly available in the western diet provides.

    The foods of the last 80 years are vastly different than the foods of the hundred thousand years available prior to that.

    The crops that we grow have been optimized to grow quickly and to provide a lot of calories. Our grandparents would get one crop of corn per year. Modern Farmers May grow two, three or four crops of corn in the same field per year.

    It takes time for plants to absorb nutrients from soil.

    Even when you supplement with fertilizers, not every fertilizer is optimized to perfectly recreate ideal soil substrates.

    Fertilizers typically prioritize nitrogen as nitrogen causes plants to grow quickly.

    So the fast food that is grown in the soil does not have the same nutrient profile as the slow food grown in the soil.

    We then feed our cows and chickens the fast farmer food and then we eat those cows and chickens and the fast farmer food but we further break those down and reconstitute them into things that do not spoil easily.

    Canned foods, for instance, we're developed so that the beans that you harvested in October could be eaten in February. Now, canned foods are meant to be one of the primary Staples of the western diet. Everything about whatever was put into those cans has been sterilized and optimized for shelf longevity.

    • I'll stop that rant to start a different one and this one will be quicker. The best meal I've ever had in my life was at a farm to table restaurant.

      I was out visiting this place with my girlfriend at the time and she saw this little restaurant by the side of the road and we decided to stop in.

      It was fairly pricey but reading their menu they mentioned that all of the food that they were serving there that day that could be grown locally was harvested this morning and prepared for you today.

      I spent $100 for the two of us to eat. I had meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans and it was $40.

      I thought that for $40 I would get a gargantuan portion and instead it was actually a very small portion compared to what I would normally eat. The serving of meatloaf was about the size of a deck of cards. The mashed potatoes were about the size of my fist, and I probably got maybe 25 green beans.

      I was somewhat upset because my expectations based off of my normally available foods would say that a dinner of meatloaf would cost less than $20 and would fill the plate but there was a lot of plate available and visible on this $40 serving.

      But, I said fuck it we ball worst case I can go and get some other fast food elsewhere if I still feel hungry afterwards.

      And let me tell you, I honestly cannot remember the last time I was so satisfied with a meal. The taste was not twice the price worth but when I finished eating I kind of felt tingly.

      My stomach was sending waves of pleasure through my body, it was a sensation that I have never felt before.

      My stomach was telling my entire body that I was full, and I was satisfied, and that I had eaten exactly the right amount of food and that feeling continued for the remainder of the day.

      We had this meal at like 1:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday and I did not want to eat again for the rest of the day.

      The freshness of the food. The nutritional quality of that meal was so far above the available nutritional quality of any other food that I can personally locate that I got physically high off of eating fucking meatloaf.

      I am not rich.

      I cannot afford to eat $40 meals for every meal. I do not have access to a farm to provide me with fresh vegetables to eat every single day.

      But that one experience highlighted to me how important nutrition is when fighting obesity.

      That is why I feel confident in saying that obese people are not obese because they just love eating so much and they are fat little piggies that can't control themselves.

      I feel confident in saying that the grand majority of obese people who eat the Western diet are obese because the food that they have available does not have the nutritional profile that their body is craving, and because of that, their bodies compel them to continue eating until they meet their nutritional baselines.

      If that is the case the best solution for obesity is to first nourish the body and then allow them to eat whatever they want on top of that.

      And you can say it's all calories in calories out that you want but not every calorie is the same because once again, if they were, how can you starve to death with a belly full of rabbit meat?

    • No, you are saying people should starve, and pretending I am saying it.

      And then you say people should ignore their bodies and pretend that I am saying it.

      You then try to talk about ascetics, I guess? Which no, you eat a healthy amount of healthy food, and not more. Have a treat, it's fine.

      Don't eat much more than you need to and you will not be obese.

      You've already stated that ingesting more calories then you burn causes obesity. This is correct.

      Nobody is arguing that all food is the same either, this is another thing only you have brought up.

      You're making all these facetious arguments you're shooting down yourself, so be sure to pat yourself on the back for surmounting the obstacles you constructed.

      And no, the root cause of modern-day obesity is not body type and metabolism. Everyone has minutely different nutritional requirements, not just obese people, their nutritional requirements are not the root cause of their obesity, that claim is absurd on its face.

      People are obese at different relative weights, and it's natural to have different body types, and it's equally natural to carry too much extra weight because you eat too much.

      You know how to make fat ducks and geese? Feed them more calories than they need. Know why some dogs and cats are way fatter than the others? They get way more food than the skinny dogs and cats. Know why humans get fat? They eat more food than they burn.

      As you've already stated.

      It's good that you're learning about nutrition, but try expressing your nutritional tidbits to someone who asked you about them.

      None of your anecdotes are related to the direct cause of obesity, which is eating too much.

      As you've agreed to.

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