Re: obesity rates

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At 01:49 AM 7/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>There appears to be a strong satiety effect with

>protein and fat (seems to be physiological restraints (CCK) on eating too

>much protein and fat) -- but carbs by themselves never seem to satisfy.

I agree totally. Since I've made SURE to add saturated fats and protein

to each meal, I've stopped craving *anything* (coffee, sugar, etc.).

I'm not sure about not-saturated fats though: I think I could eat my

weight in nuts (and I DID gain 10 lbs on a fairly low-carb diet once,

where I binged on nuts). I don't have an off-switch for nuts either.

So I buy them with the shells still on, not easy to eat handfuls that

way.

Heidi

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Along this same note... Someone has mentioned a book to me recently. I do not

know the name yet she is looking it up, but it seems similar to those books on

eating for your blood type. It is figuring out which of the five main glands is

overactive. Something about they should be in a certain balance and usually in

overweight people one gland is dominant and out of balance. This causes your

body to put on wieght in certain areas. Well with this book you figure out which

gland is overactive and eat certain foods to get yourself in balance. the person

that mentioned this to me her mother is doing it and has lost weight with it.

I was wondering if anyone here has heard about this. I have just been reading

quite a bit on eating for blood type, eating the way your ancestors did, etc as

the correct way for your body to eat and this seemed an interesting twist to all

this.

Grace,

a Augustine

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----- Original Message -----

From: Ecmillerreid@...

Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:49 AM

Subject: obesity rates

In a message dated 7/28/02 1:50:00 AM,

writes:

>I don't know what the answers are, but the questions are

>

>interesting! Around here people are getting really, really

>

>fat (not just chunky), much more so than when I was a kid.

>

>I don't think their lives have changed all that much in 10-20

>

>years.

I have no doubt that our current obesity/diabetic epidemic is directly

related to the USDA's advice to eat mainly grains and to eat lowfat. From

1960 -80 the rate of obesity/overweight stayed the same, but since 1980

(about the time the guidelines came down) we have decreased our fat intake as

a nation (from 43% of calories to 34%) and increased our grain consumption,

but our obesity rates have skyrocketed. The fat phobes insist we still eat

too much fat -- they acknowledge that we eat the wrong kind of carbs, but did

they make that clear on the pyramid?? Just recently they proposed guidelines

to lower our sugar intake, but the all powerful sugar lobby nixed that. The

newest theory is that we're fat because of fast food supersizing. We probably

do eat too much -- but why? There appears to be a strong satiety effect with

protein and fat (seems to be physiological restraints (CCK) on eating too

much protein and fat) -- but carbs by themselves never seem to satisfy. Get a

rush of glucose followed by an outpouring of insulin that removes the glucose

making you feel hungry sooner rather than later. In nature so to speak, we

only had access to carbohydrates (nothing like the sugar laden refined stuff

we have now) during a few months of the year. I think we are hard wired to

eat carbs when the lights are long (with electric lights that all the time

now) to lay down fat for the upcoming winter/famine. But -- given the advice

to eat carbs, but not fat, Americans have been on a twenty year eating binge

storing up for a winter that never comes. We've got obesity, diabetes,

increased cancer, etc. to show for it.

Namaste, Liz

<A HREF= " http://www.csun.edu/~ecm59556/Healthycarb/index.html " >

http://www.csun.edu/~ecm59556/Healthycarb/index.html</A>

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I had checked out a book from the library called Excitotoxins, The Taste

That Kills by Dr. l Blaylock. In his book he believes that flavor

enhancers such as MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, Nutrasweet, etc. that

have been added to most packaged and processed foods are causing damage to

our neurons and parts of the hypothalamus. (Evidently, he's a neurosurgeon

and explains in layman's terms why he believes these excitotoxins are so

harmful to the brain.) The hypothalamus is believed to regulate the

pituitary gland which is called the master gland because it regulates all

the other endocrine glands. Dr. Blaylock reveals in his book that he

believes that some of the severe obesity that we are seeing today is a

result from damage to the hypothalamus from these flavor enhancers, and that

is why no matter how much or little that person eats, he gains weight.

(Because a damaged hypothalamus can't regulate the pituitary properly.) If

he's right, that could be one reason we see so many people that can't

control their weight.

Marla

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--- a Augustine <pjaugustine@...> wrote:

> Along this same note... Someone has mentioned a book

> to me recently. I do not know the name yet she is

> looking it up, but it seems similar to those books

> on eating for your blood type. It is figuring out

> which of the five main glands is overactive.

Could be one of the books by Elliot Abravanel. His

first was The Body Type Diet, I think. I thought it

was quite relevant, for me, at least. I ran into

before NT and was empowered to eat eggs everyday again

when I had stupidly decided it was unhealthy for me!

Judy in Connecticut

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