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The low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out. The notion that saturated fats are detrimental to our health is deeply embedded in our Zeitgeist--but shockingly, the opposite just might be true

Los estudios epidemiológicos han evidenciado que una dieta baja en lípidos (20% o menos del total de energía diaria) y rica en hidratos de carbono (sobre todo, en azúcares simples) puede provocar cambios metabólicos que deriven en dislipidemia aterogénica, diabetes tipo 2 y síndrome metabólico.

La Asociación Americana del Corazón (AHA) ha advertido sobre los efectos para la salud de la creciente ingesta de azúcares que se constata en la población. Las consecuencias asociadas van desde anomalías en el metabolismo de los lípidos, la glucosa y el peso, hasta déficits de nutrientes esenciales

En España, el consumo total de azúcares simples por persona y día es de unos 120 g (entre 15 y 20 cucharaditas de postre al día), frente a los 55 g máximos recomendados

Natural capitalism involves four major shifts in business practices with are all vitally interlinked: dramatic increase in the productivity of natural resources, shift to biologically inspired production models, a move to a solutions-based business model, and reinvestment in natural capital

the brain's response to fructose is very different to the response to glucose, which is less likely to promote weight gain

This study provides evidence in humans that fructose and glucose elicits opposite responses in the brain. It supports the animal research that shows similar findings and links fructose with obesity

produced significantly higher fasting plasma triacylglycerol values than did the glucose diet in men

This may be an important contribution to senescence and many age-related chronic diseases

When fructose reaches the liver," says Dr. William J. Whelan, a biochemist at the University of Miami School of Medicine, "the liver goes bananas and stops everything else to metabolize the fructose." Eating fructose instead of glucose results in lower circulating insulin and leptin levels, and higher ghrelin levels after the meal.[59] Since leptin and insulin decrease appetite and ghrelin increases appetite, some researchers suspect that eating large amounts of fructose increases the likelihood of weight gain

realization that you are in a dream and there will be no social or physical consequences of your actions

For example, one young man dreamt of being pursued by a lion. When he had no place left to run, he realized he was dreaming and called to the lion to "come and get him." The challenge turned into a playful wrestling match, and the lion became a sexy woman (NightLight 1.4, 1989, p. 13). Monsters often transform into benign creatures, friends, or empty shells when courageously confronted in lucid dreams. This is an extremely empowering experience. It teaches you in a very visceral manner that you can conquer fear and thereby become stronger

Examples of such applications include public speaking, difficult confrontations, artistic performance and athletic prowess.

HFCS has been shown to interfere with a key enzyme in the body that delivers copper to your vital organs. This effectively results in copper deficiency for many, adversely impacting a wide range of organ systems including the heart, testes, pancreas, and damaging the liver-generating inflammation and cirrhosis. It has been strongly linked to the sharp rise in both obesity and diabetes. Furthermore, fructose is 20-30 times more gylcating than glucose. It turns anyone into a raging AGE-producing factory. Animals fed a high-fructose diet in laboratory studies developed livers that looked a lot like those of hardcore, aging alcoholics-inflamed and shot through with dead cells and scar tissue-the condition known as “cirrhosis.”

Take Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, one of the most high-profile examples of this mistaken approach to the problem. The principles of Let's Move! sound good. Who would be against getting kids to be more physically active and eat more fruits and vegetables? But anyone who thinks that will reverse the obesity epidemic is sorely mistaken

Babies and Beverages – “A study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that reduction in sugar-sweetened beverages (regular soda, fruit drinks and fruit punch) had a significant effect on weight change at 6 months and 18 months, even more of an impact than solid- calorie reduction.”

Liquid caloric consumption can be quite a significant contribution to weight gain so this is a tremendous effort to educate the public,” said Dr. Bartfield

For the last 60 years, physicians and public-health authorities have been giving that exact same advice to obese people—children and adults—with little or no success

The subjects experience modest weight loss (maybe nine or 10 pounds in the first six months), and then they gain the weight right back. Weight loss doesn't last

The researchers enrolled nearly 50,000 mostly overweight or obese women into the trial, chose roughly 20,000 of them at random, and instructed that group to eat a low-fat diet, rich in fruits, vegetables, and fiber. These women were given regular counseling to motivate them to stay on the diet. If we believe what these women said they were eating, they also cut their average energy intake by well more than 300 calories a day

Conclusions Physical activity can significantly improve motor skills but did not reduce body mass index in young children in this trial

545 children in their preschool year, mean age 4.2 years (SD 0.2) at baseline.

until I read Good Calories, Bad Calories (GCBC) by Gary Taubes I still thought that food was just fuel and obesity was always due to bad genes, or overeating, or lack of exercise - the usual suspects

Some diseases that are very common today, which we call Diseases of Civilization or DOCs, do not occur with any frequency in native or hunter-gatherer populations until western foods are introduced

The background assumption was that cancer, heart disease and obesity are only issues because we live long enough to get them now, and aren’t we lucky for modern medicine?

Bernard Gesch is probably the most important scientist in world studying effects of nutrition and behaviour right now

Aylesbury Young Offenders Institute, where half the prisoners got a food supplement, the other half a placebo. Result? The ones receiving a real supplement committed 37% fewer violent offences. Placebos – no change. Stunning

Sugar + processed food = increases in violence.

The gaining of knowledge is ultimately for your own use. If you offer it to someone and they don’t take it, the ultimate benefit has still been gained

Your workout should fit around your job, not the other way round

A big factor in determining this is that there is little evidence of hominin plant consumption during the Acheulean (~1.6 m – 100,000 years ago) period of the paleolithic. Admittedly, part of this is because plant evidence doesn’t fossilize as well as bones, but it’s interesting that the plant eating assumption persists on such small amounts of evidence. As usual, this refutes the vegetarian position in terms of evolutionary biology

Humans specialize in nutrient dense, hard to extract sources, while chimpanzees specialize in ripe fruits and plants that have low nutrient density which are also easily collected

necessity of tool use and social organization to sustain expanding populations

In many cases the surfactants added to foods are exactly the same as the ones used in pharmaceutics as absorption enhancers. Numerous synthetic surfactant food additives have been shown to increase the intestinal permeability through paracellular and/or transcellular mechanisms and some of them were also shown to inhibit P-glycoprotein

Conclusions Physical inactivity appears to be the result of fatness rather than its cause. This reverse causality may explain why attempts to tackle childhood obesity by promoting PA have been largely unsuccessful

Why remove the milk solids and water from butter? Separating the milk solids from the butterfat almost entirely removes the carbohydrates (lactose) as well as a protein that some people are sensitive to, casein. Evaporating out the water means the flavor of the butter is less diluted

If you mix this with 1/2 cup of coconut oil, the ghee will have a very faint flavor of coconut. If you add a little less coconut oil, the coconut flavor will pretty much disappear

Mixing all three in roughly equal parts makes a great cooking oil that isn’t too pigmented or too coconutty for Italian spices

Casein- and Lactose-Free: During the clarification process, milk solids are removed, leaving the healthy butter fats behind

A well-prepared ghee has very little moisture content and is very shelf-stable. You do not need to refrigerate it for 2-3 months if you keep it in an airtight container. When kept in a refrigerator, ghee can last up to a year

One tablespoon of ghee can replace up to three tablespoons of oil or butter in your recipe