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My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Discussion in 'Culture and Food' started by Anon220806, Dec 14, 2020.

  1. Anon220806
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    Healthy Fat. Straight off the Freshwell Surgery website in Essex:

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    Flip the Pyramid:

    Southpark gives the solution….
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    Yeah I remember that episode :)

    The actual title was "Gluten Free Ebola" :D

    This was one of the really good ones, a great quote from it was "Gluten will make your d*ck fly off" whereupon they animate exactly that happening to the scientist who drinks raw distilled concentrated gluten :D
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    I never watched South Park. The clip was posted by an NHS nurse in Hampshire where they are promoting lchf. Incredibly the established USA food pyramid is upside down. There is a massive campaign to get it inverted :D
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    Authored by an NHS GP :


    Nutritional ketosis is well-tolerated, even in type 1 diabetes: the ZeroFive100 Project; a proof-of-concept study



    https://journals.lww.com/co-endocri...nal_ketosis_is_well_tolerated,_even_in.6.aspx


    “One almost universal assumption about energy transfer is that one needs to consume sugar or carbohydrates to fuel the body during exercise [3,17]. This cannot be refuted with a simple answer as it is true that anaerobic exercise absolutely requires glucose. Specific neural tissues have a reliance on glucose. As they are devoid of mitochondria, erythrocytes rely on glucose metabolism through enzymes located in the cell membrane.

    In these situations, glucose can be synthesized through gluconeogenesis from liver glycogen, glucogenic amino acids and the glycerol component of triglycerides.

    In all other situations, glucose can be replaced by the metabolism of fat.”
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    I love South Park, it is anything but politically correct, they have a go at everyone equally, I mean sometimes South Park can seem to be preaching a really anti right wing message and other times they are preaching a really anti left wing message, it's really hard to tell a lot of the time, sometimes they take the piss out of religion and sometimes they seem to be re-enforcing it and the same with science.

    There is a short story arc over a couple of episodes where Cartman gets frozen Buck Rogers style for 500 years because he did not have enough patience to wait for the Nintendo Wii to come out in the stores and he ends up in a future populated with three political/religious groups almost faith based groups all based on Science but which can't agree with each other and are at war, the United Atheist Alliance, the Unified Atheist League and the Allied Atheist Alliance later we find out that the argument is over "the Great Question", which is "what atheists should call themselves" :D

    That pair of episodes take the piss out of evolution right from the start and can be seen in one light to be supportive of the red neck Evangelical Christian south in the USA while at the same time taking the piss out of them too, the episodes feature Richard Dawkins and they are merciless on him, they have him fall in love with Ms Garrison (in reality Mr Garrison, the kids teacher after his sex change) who is totally anti-evolution but Dawkins eventually convinces Garrison that Evolution is real, this is all happening in the past and affecting Cartman's timeline in the future where he has a crank prank time phone that he keeps using to call the past to try to tell himself not to freeze himself, during one call he is trying to call Garrison but gets Dawkins who has moved in with Garrison and catches them in flagrante and accidently reveals to Dawkins that Garrison is a man. (not the real Dawkins playing the voice part though)

    It's incredibly funny but it's almost impossible to tell what their actual stance is on science or religion or politics and the "Gluten free Ebola" episode was the same it was simultaneously taking the piss out of diet fads while presenting accurate information and potentially supporting the science, the whole show is the ultimate have your cake and eat it at the same time whatever personal view on a topic a viewer has they can come away from a South Park episode feeling good about themselves and supported :D
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    @oss
    @Jim

    A female NHS patient posts on her Surgery Facebook group.

    “After a 7 week plateau (the longest since I started low carb) my weight is finally on its way down again, and today my BMI is below 25 for the first time in about 30 years. The plateau was caused by sleep deprivation - once I got back to being able to sleep normally my weight started going down again”

    I can remember her posting to say that her weight loss had stalled.

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    “HISTORY IN THE MAKING! An invited review just published in the British Dietetic Association’s own journal on #T2D Remission concludes low carb is effective and safe We all agree on so much. No one can say now the @BDA_Dietitians ‘don’t like low carb’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jh…”

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jhn.12938

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    Doesn't anyone go to the gym? (I just got back, my hip started hurting as soon as I got on the bike, never does that on the running machine).
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    For many, the gym won’t shift it though.
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    True, but with diet and the gym surely its better?
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    Aerobic exercise will strengthen the heart and building muscle through weights and other types of exercise will increase basal metabolic rate, whether it is better or not is another matter for many it is about their body image.

    Personally I have always found gym exercise mind numbing, I would far prefer and aerobic sport of some kind.
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    My cardio is better than average for my age, always try and work on it,in 2018 I climbed to the tigers nest in Bhutan, 800 meters from the valley floor at an elevation of 3000 meters, one person passed me and she was half my age and lived in the pyrenees where she ran daily, the others I left in my wake, never been bothered with body image :)
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    Yeah but you're doing it through walking and exploring the ones concerned with body image issues are killing themselves in the gym to achieve some theoretical perfection.

    My boss, the company owner did daily gym for years and it made no difference to his weight but he did have a lot of muscle, eventually he went on a crash medically controlled diet one of those ones where all you can eat or rather drink is shakes, which worked, but a year or so later he got bowel cancer and had to have that dealt with, he's doing fine now thank god but I think he's put a little bit of weight back on, not sure.
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    I have said before, it takes a lot more exercise than many people (and I mean many) can manage or realistically achieve. Not a day goes by where I don’t see at least one person and typically several where weight loss is achieved not by exercising but by changing what they eat. And using me as just one example but there are soooo many, when it comes to exercise, I don’t lose weight by walking the dogs for an hour a day or half hour in the gym each week. For me and thousands of others and probably millions of others, I have to be indulging in hard physical exertion for long periods of the day and for several days a week to lose weight which many people cannot do, either because they don’t have the time or are too big in the first place. It’s only when they change what they eat do they get results. Often, once they have shed a lot of the weight they can then do more exercise.

    You can’t outrun a bad diet.

    @Druk1 I don’t count and don’t keep records but the number of people I see losing a huge amount of weight, typically obese or even morbidly obese, by changing what they eat rather than exercising, is colossal.
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    There is a guy up the road from me. He is a kick-boxer. He does both physical exercise and lchf. He is also a qualified dietician and health coach to sportsmen and woman. Exercise clearly isn’t enough, even in his case.

    Oss has shifted a lot of weight by changing what he eats. From what he says, he hasn’t achieved that by frequenting the gym etc, in fact it was largely achieved during lockdown sitting on the sofa. Correct me if I am wrong Oss?
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    My original question was "does anyone go to the gym?" "No" would have done :D not for body image or anything, just to keep fit as father time marches on :)
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    No I never go to the gym ;)

    But I would have liked to go swimming, just before the pandemic I was about to pay for a membership of the local pool, I like swimming as an exercise.
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    For five years, about 10 to 15 years ago, I went to the gym a lot. The gym had a pool. But I got bored and that was the biggest obstacle to keeping it going at each visit.

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