The Sound Of Settled Science

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition;

According to a commonly held view, the obesity pandemic is caused by overconsumption of modern, highly palatable, energy-dense processed foods, exacerbated by a sedentary lifestyle. However, obesity rates remain at historic highs, despite a persistent focus on eating less and moving more, as guided by the energy balance model (EBM). This public health failure may arise from a fundamental limitation of the EBM itself. Conceptualizing obesity as a disorder of energy balance restates a principle of physics without considering the biological mechanisms that promote weight gain. An alternative paradigm, the carbohydrate-insulin model (CIM), proposes a reversal of causal direction. According to the CIM, increasing fat deposition in the body—resulting from the hormonal responses to a high-glycemic-load diet—drives positive energy balance. The CIM provides a conceptual framework with testable hypotheses for how various modifiable factors influence energy balance and fat storage. Rigorous research is needed to compare the validity of these 2 models, which have substantially different implications for obesity management, and to generate new models that best encompass the evidence.

32 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. Using the glycemic load / index for BG control isn’t new, the fact that it’s only now being considered as a factor in weight control is somewhat odd.

    1. Sophistries abound …. It’s really simple ….
      Obese people are obese because they eat like pigs and sit on their fat asses all day long. It’s not a disease or a condition .. it’s gluttony.

      Doughnuts anyone?

  2. There’s some mutterings deep in the medical weight loss establishment that depression and anti-depressants are highly correlated with obesity, particularly the really extreme obesity we see a lot of these days, the 300+ club.

    No smoking gun of course, because anti-depressants are a big ticket for Pharma and they won’t be funding any studies that might take the shine off their apple, if you take my meaning.

    There’s a lot of that going around these days.

    Also, I find out today that some very highly educated people of my acquaintance seem to have forgotten how vaccines work. They’re busy telling me they don’t want to attend a function because so-and-so person might not be vaccinated. Which is BACKWARDS to how it actually works.

    Behold the power of relentless propaganda, my friends. It really does work.

    1. “ Also, I find out today that some very highly educated people of my acquaintance seem to have forgotten how vaccines work. They’re busy telling me they don’t want to attend a function because so-and-so person might not be vaccinated. Which is BACKWARDS to how it actually works.”

      And that is one of the smoking guns of the Mass Propaganda campaign being successfully waged on the public by the Lying Government and the Mockingbird Media.

  3. Good health starts with elevated Mitochondrial density & efficiency

    … optimization of which, is ONLY achieved with correct diet and EXERCISE!

    Prolonged calorie reduction is not a sustainable lifestyle. Intermittent fasting, time restricted feeding and a ketogenic (or at a minimum a drastic reduction in carbs) is sustainable – but of limited benefit without exercise.

    Seminal semiotics worthy of google-whacking
    Autophagy
    Apoptosis
    Senolytics

    1. .

      Dieting loses weight. Very important.

      Exercise tones muscles. Also very important

      Vigorous exercise builds muscle … adds weight, but the good kind. Very rewarding.

      Do the above and you will look better, feel better and be much healthier.

      End of story.

      .

    2. You can’t out exercise a bad diet.
      In fact, CIM without exercise will result in significant sustainable weightloss.

  4. I’ve followed Dr. Ludwig’s “Always Hungry?” way of eating for almost 4 years. Sustained weight loss of 30 lbs to healthy BMI, more energy, less joint inflammation, lab results normal. It’s back to eating what Mom fed us in the 60’s, before the “fat is bad” messaging got to her and most of the rest of us, without the bread or potatoes. Highly recommended.

  5. Whichever theory is right won’t really address me ignoring my doctor when she suggests I should lose weight.

  6. Thanks for highlighting this topic, Kate.

    I went ‘down the rabbit-hole’ of ketosis, insulin resistance and intermittent fasting about 3 months ago. It has been an incredible learning experience about how the body functions regarding the intake, processing and storage of carbs, fats and proteins, etc.. It has already had a hugely positive impact on my health.

    The reality that honestly surprised me about ‘keto eating’ is the amount of frigging vegetables involved… crikey… I’ve eaten more vegetables in the past month than I have in the past two years. No shit. I now eat nothing processed and happily avoid wheat, grain, breads and sugary products completely. Fats and proteins satiate you fully, where sugars and carbs make you hunger for more… even when your belly is full! How many here can attest to that fact?

    As for intermittent fasting, it just comes naturally to most when you start eating only ‘wholesome, low-carb’ foods, and has a multitude of benefits in itself. The satiety levels of the foods I now eat make it pretty easy to go 12, 18, 24 or even 48 hrs with no food and no difficulty. Look up “autophagy”, insulin resistance” and “human growth hormone (HGH)” if you are at all curious about the enormous benefits of IF.

    IMO, the Canadian Food Guide is slowly killing us, plain and simple. There is little doubt to the extreme damage created by the franken-foods that big business now market to us. They take out the healthy fats and replace them with sugars then tell people dying from obesity that it is ‘better’ for them. They take sugar-filled drinks and candy bars and slyly market them as “energy drinks” and “energy bars”, addicting millions more deluded souls. Our high-carb, high-sugar diets are apparently the main driver for the long and steady rise of type 2 diabetes in our societies, too. Then there are the horrible seed oils, margarines, fake-wheat, and a gazillion preservatives, added sugars everywhere, fake flavorings, colorings, texturizers, stabilizers, etc., etc., etc.. Man, I am DONE with putting that shit in my body every day.

    Our ‘overlords’ know damn well that the ‘foods’ their buddies in Big Corp Food profit heavily from are also killing us, just like they knew their buddies in Big Tobacco were killing us long before they acted. Seriously, look at how any move to substantially remove sugars from kids cereal alone would cripple an entire industry. Kellogg, General Mills and Post have way too much invested in bribes, grants and political donations to allow that to happen.

    1. CO, +1. Good on you mate. I failed to mention in my earlier post that Dr. Berg is a HUOOGE proponent of Keto diet and intermittent fasting. Check him out on YouTube.

      1. Thanks, I have seen a dozen or so of Dr. Berg’s vids, he certainly has a great knack of explaining things clearly. Very helpful to someone like me who is still fairly new to these concepts. Dr. Ekberg is also a great source for in-depth explanations and hard facts and his teachings had as much to do with me ‘taking the plunge’ as anything else.

        One other vital thing SDA’ers interested in learning more about this general topic should really investigate is “fatty liver”.

        Good health, and a smaller ‘spare tire’ to everyone!

    2. Well said!
      In addition to big food we have big tech, big pharma & big nanny state complexes.

    3. If people had any brains they would simply stop buying and eating the garbage that they dump on us.

      Learn to say no to your kids or shut up.

    4. Congrats, I went on that journey a few years ago and it was life changing.
      Now, take another peek down the rabbit hole and try carnivore for 3 months.

  7. As we speak, the Overlords of the Great Reset are working their tiny little hearts out to help us along with our energy deficits. Personally and publicly.
    Less food, less heat. Sounds like the kinda thing that makes an organism tougher and meaner.

    Or dead…..

  8. It’s the freekin’ feeding window. If your feeding window is 14-20 hours a day, you’ll be fat and insulin resistant. Try not eating 14-20 hours a day.

    1. Here’s what …
      I do my own cooking and always have …. MY wife loves that. I cook for her too.
      I eat a good breakfast around 7
      I eat a light lunch around noon
      I eat a very light lunch for supper around 5 … low cal food, but not exclusively, you should eat stuff you like for your head. At least until you learn to enjoy a more low calorie diet.
      Eat smaller portions, don’t add sugar to anything and go easy of bread.
      I do not eat between meals and at 78 I keep as active as my body allows.
      Don’t eat before bedtime whatever you do.
      I feel pretty good and I am not overweight.

      Now you know what you need to do to be fit and healthy. It’s pretty simple.
      If a person respects himself, then taking better care of the earth suit, is not a chore, it’s a joy.

  9. More faddish BS, designed to enrich con-men selling “miracle diets.”
    There are calories eaten, and calories burned. Period.
    Lay about like a sack of potatoes, but eat like you’re running marathons, and you’ll get fat.
    I know, math is hard.

  10. my old Taurus got taken off the road when l hydroplaned and bumped into back of an SUV.
    2 months before it was headed to the recyclers anyway doomed to fail emissions tests.
    lve been bicycling ever since. just this week l stepped on the scales.
    180 pounds. *lm 5 pounds away from my optimum weight*. what lm NOT is a disgusting bloated beerbelly couch potato.
    and what l get to do is pig out frequently.
    also from age 0 to 5 l lived in a uninsulated frame house with NO central heat. heat was the kitchen stove my dad stoked before going to work and my mom then used to make breakfast for the siblings. or so lm told.
    little old me deduced l must be an eskimo. the end result is a metabolism geared to BURNING OFF THOSE CALORIES IN BODY HEAT.
    lm hard wired to do so still. gee, l guess thats why l did my ice diving qualification in an ordinary wet suit.
    etc etc.
    so, fatso, quitcherbytching.

  11. One aspect of obesity that is never addressed is the dental issue, poor dental health insures said persons eats a steady diet of soft processed foods. If you do not have back your back teeth and your bite is off, how does one chew their food?

  12. glycemic/schlymic. Eat less, move more. Weight comes off. There are no tricks or magic potions. The guys on cable TV or PBS. Same hustle. Buy my book, eat my diet, come to my seminar. Same grift.

  13. Reading Gary Taubes book “Good Calories Bad Calories” finally helped me understand the role of insulin in storing fat and the interplay between eating sugars and starches and metabolic processes. Calories in vs calories out only works thermodynamically when you calculate the caloric expeditures of the entire metabolic system, not just movement of the body. I’ve been eating low carb for almost three years now and will never go back to the standard American Diet. Lost weight, reduced inflammation, weight stayed off and even my allergies and dry eye syndrome have improved markedly. I do not exercise more, but being healthier makes me want to get out and enjoy life! No, diets don’t work and you’ll always be hungry, but removing the carbs from your eating patterns as a way of life does work.

  14. Easy living makes fat, lazy bastards out of a lot of people.
    Duct tape works wonders.
    You can wear it under your mask!

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