For decades we’ve been told gaining and losing weight is all about the calories. Just one little problem: the research says otherwise. Diabetics undergo dramatic weight changes when they adjust their insulin levels — and so do you. Your diet determines how much insulin your body will produce over time. From the documentary “Fat Head.”
If you eliminate sugar and most anything that tastes sweet (there are about 30 names for sweeteners, natural and synthetic) and stay away from white, processed cereal grains I guarantee all of you that you will keep a good 20 to 40 pounds off and be able to eat nearly anything you want and still maintain your weight. I can eat nearly 4,000 calories a day and I can’t gain weight for 3 years now that I have followed above advise.
Americans are fat , Latins and forgienz have beast bodies they take care of there body , it’s been proven latins have beast bodies . Americans are fat
@ledhed70 Please read a little bit about the subject. You have an opinion and just that …. you don’t KNOW shit.
Read the latest research, read Gary’s book, read time magazine … read!!! Stop writing about something you now nothing about.
Read is good for you
@karmuppet I ended up with a lot less respect for scientists after working the film, at least those in the health/nutrition fields. Spurlock’s company is called The Con. We should’ve known …
i’m reading Good Calories,Bad Calories thanks to seeing it mentioned in Fathead.
I’m so G-D mad at how bogus nutritional “research” became accepted and how everyone repeats it now like it’s gospel. and i enjoy Morgan Spurlocks documentaries but he needs to be kicked in the ‘nads for his distortions in Supersize Me.
I like how these clips explain everything is very simple terms and use simple graphics and animation! Makes it VERY easy to understand it all!!!
@ledhed70 the frencch food is just full of fat, you knowlegeless mupet …:-D
Medical students 30+ years ago probably read textbooks that suggested that carbohydrate drives insulin drives fat accumulation, end of story, but more modern textbooks indicate that the process of fat storage is more complex than that: adipo-insights.blogspot.com/2009/09/is-fable-of-unfettered-fat-burning.html
@ledhed70 Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, volume 2010: “Our results suggest that diets with a high GI and high GL were positively associated with blood lipid levels that posed an elevated CHD risk, independent of other known risk factors.”
I know I’m just a comedian and therefore unqualified to interpret straightforward English sentences in study documents, but it sounds to me as if the researchers are blaming sugar and refined starches for elevated heart-disease risk.
@ledhed70 Obesity reviews, July 2008, a meta-analysis of low-fat vs. low-carb diets: “There were significant differences between the groups for weight, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triacylglycerols and systolic blood pressure, favouring the low-carbohydrate diet.”
Low carb wins for improvements in weight, LDL, triglycerides, HDL, and blood pressure … damn, those American paradoxes are really adding up.
@ledhed70 New England Journal of Medicine, July 17, 2008. Comparison of low-fat, Mediterranean and low-carb diet in a clinical, controlled study. Low-carb dieters lost the most weight and had THE GREATEST IMPROVEMENT IN LIPID PROFILES, even though the subjects on the Mediterranean diet had the “best” ratio of monosaturated to saturated fat intake.
(Yeah, that animal fat is just terrible for your heart …)
@ledhed70 JAMA, Vol. 297 No. 9, March 7, 2007 “In this study, premenopausal overweight and obese women assigned to follow the Atkins diet, which had the lowest carbohydrate intake, lost more weight and experienced more favorable overall metabolic effects at 12 months than women assigned to follow the Zone, Ornish, or LEARN diets.”
More favorable metabolic effects than Ornish’s low-fat diet … another American paradox.
@ledhed70 No, he didn’t starve them. He helped them lose weight while remaining strong. Point is, before the 1970s, the accepted way to lose weight was to cut sugar and starch. It’s the low-fat diet that’s new and faddish.
@ledhed70 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 80, No. 5, “a higher saturated fat intake is associated with less progression of coronary artery disease according to quantitative angiography.”
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, January 13, 2010 “Overall, Krauss and his colleagues found, there was no difference in the risks of heart disease and stroke between people with the lowest and highest intakes of saturated fat.”
Must be an American paradox …
@ledhed70 Riiiight. Very low-fat diet in France. That’s why they named it the “French Paradox.” Because the low-fat diet supporters, upon seeing how the French perfectly fit their theory, decided they’d better call it a “paradox.”
@ledhed70 And if animal fat causes heart disease, you’ll need to come up with a clever explanation of why my lipid profile improved dramatically when I started eating a lot more fat, but a lot less sugar and starch. You’ll also have to explain why Inuits, who lived on meat and whale blubber, had almost no heart disease at all. Their diets were primarily animal fat.
@ledhed70 Wait a second, pal. If animal fat causes heart disease, then the vegetarian Indians would have a lower rate of heart disease, even if their meat-eating countrymen consume goat meat. Lower fat isn’t non-fat. If you eat any meat at all, you’re consuming more animal fat than a vegetarian.
But it’s the vegetarian Indians who suffer more heart disease, so animal fat can’t be the cause … unless you’re going to try something like “Well, the meat-eating Indians also drink wine.”
@ledhed70 The wine theory was an attempt by the lipophobes to explain the French Paradox, but it doesn’t hold up. People consume just as much wine in other countries with much higher rates of heart disease.
@ledhed70 Can’t paste links. Go to the fathead-movie site and click the Recommended Reading links. You can look up the rise in heart disease starting in the 1920s, and you can look up our butter and lard consumption, as I did.
The French were on a low-fat diet until recently?!! What planet are you from? They’ve been known for creamy sauces, cheeses, lots of butter, etc., forever. Their rate of heart disease has started rising because they started eating MORE SUGAR.
@FatHeadMovie – It didn’t skip the non-vegetarians. You do realize that very, very few Indians eat beef don’t you? The meat they do eat, like goat, has 50%-65% LESS fat than beef. Also, because India is a depressed third-world country, even non-vegetarians eat little meat.
Again, your theory goes unsupported.
@FatHeadMovie – Show me a credible study that supports those facts in America.
The French also ate very little animal fat in fairly recently, now their rate of heart disease is increasing. Again, their wine intake is also attributed to low rates of heart disease.
@FatHeadMovie – Ok Mr. “Many other researcher would like to test the theory” (minus the s). I’m definitely not trying to be funny, I’ll leave that up to the comedian in the room.
@ledhed70 And I’m still waiting for you to explain why heart disease went up in America while animal fat consumption went down, and why the French have such low rates of heart disease despite consuming all that butter, cheese and cream.
@ledhed70 Ah, I see, it’s the genetic mutation paradox. We’ll just toss that in with the French Paradox, the Swiss Paradox, the Inuit Paradox, the Masai Paradox, the Russian Paradox (low cholesterol, high heart disease) and all the other paradoxes the anti-fat hysterics come up with to explain why there’s no association between fat intake or cholesterol and heart disease around the world.
In India, the non-vegetarians have lower rates of heart disease. I guess that mutation skipped them.
@FatHeadMovie – Heart disease is high in India due to a genetic mutation that affects one in 25 people there. It has NOTHING to do with their diet. FFS, you just make shit up.