HuK Eating! - Page 9

On November 06 2010 13:40 RosaParksStoleMySeat wrote:
Reading people's perceptions of healthy food in this thread is making my brain hurt.

Saturated fat is essentially good for you; the lipid hypothesis was a terrible idea from its conception. A diet high in saturated fat and protein is not going to lead to heart disease. Go look at countries like Norway and Holland where people have historically eaten a lot of saturated fat but (at least until recently) have had very low occurrences of heart disease.

The largest contributor to obesity is sugar. More specifically, high fructose corn syrup is responsible for the obesity epidemic. There are plenty of reasons for this, including sugar's effect on insulin levels, the fact that products high in sugar do not satisfy hunger (the opposite actually), and the addictive effects of sugar. All in all, eating less sugar and more meat would be beneficial for a vast majority of people, especially considering the fact that saturated fat regulates insulin levels preventing obesity.

...But you're not listening to this, so in retrospect it was pointless for me to talk about it I guess. Yeah, go eat more grains and consider yourself healthy. No sweat off my back.