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Why you need to go on a diet right now
It is worth starting to monitor nutrition today, because then it will be too late.
What are our chances to lose weight
Earn extra weight is easy, make yourself obese is even easier, and losing weight after that is extremely difficult. Only one out of 210 men is able to lose weight. For women, the indicator is slightly better – 1 to 124, but this is less than a percent.
Such data were obtained by British scientists Only One in 210 Obese Men Reach Healthy Weight .. It would be funny if it weren’t scary: the authors of the study tracked the weight of 278,982 participants with different degrees of obesity for ten years. Continue reading
How to eat carbohydrates and not get better
Your girlfriend eats pasta at night and doesn’t get better by a gram, and you follow a variety of diets, but get fat anyway. Life hacker understands why this happens, and also explains why protein diets do not work and how much carbohydrates you need to include in order to be healthy.
While protein diets and carbohydrate-free food systems are at their peak, we all forget one simple thing. The assertion that carbohydrates is bad crumbles to ashes after only one argument: all vegetables and fruits, as well as any greens and dairy products, are made of them. The most natural and healthy plant foods can be harmful? Unlikely. So what’s wrong with these weird carbohydrates? Continue reading
Sweet Conspiracy: A History of Deadly Scientific Mistake
For almost 40 years, we have been afraid of saturated fats, abandoning them in the name of health and harmony. Although back in 1972, the English scientist John Yudkin strongly stated that eating fat does not lead to obesity and heart disease, sugar is to blame. However, the results of his research were ridiculed. The fact that we were victims of a profound scientific error is not to blame for scientific research, but the usual human qualities: fear, charisma, the desire for power.
Robert Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California who specializes in treating childhood obesity. In his 2009 lecture, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” he strongly argues: fructose, commonly used in modern diet foods, is guilty of the American obesity epidemic. Continue reading
