How much you weigh is not as important as where the fat is
. Obesity is like real estate in this regard-location, location, location. It is not a function of weight alone but where your weight is distributed. If you have a gynoid pattern of fat accumulation (ie in the hips), that is generally considered harmless in terms of long-term development of metabolic syndrome, diabetes and hypertension and cardiovascular consequences.
. Obesity is like real estate in this regard-location, location, location. It is not a function of weight alone but where your weight is distributed. If you have a gynoid pattern of fat accumulation (ie in the hips), that is generally considered harmless in terms of long-term development of metabolic syndrome, diabetes and hypertension and cardiovascular consequences.
An omental fat
distribution, however (which is the classic beer belly), predisposed one
to a much higher risk of developing cardiovascular consequences and
metabolic syndrome. Can you guess what stimulates the development of
omental fat more than anything? Carbohydrates,especially fructose, which
spills over into the momentum after you drink a can of pop as your
liver is trying to process all this fructose into triglycerides.
Obesity is not always unhealthy.
Currently, the definition of obesity is based on BMI which is basically
your height divided by your weight and if you fill a certain number you
are overweight or obese. This does not actually reflect the condition
of your health though because a person who is linebacker for a football
team will be overweight or obese by this definition using BMI. What is
known is that an obese active person (that means person who works out
and watches what they eat) has a much lower risk of sudden death than
somebody who is skinny, unhealthy who is one of those gamers and who is
always staring into their smart phone.
Obesity is not a diagnosis, it is symptom. I have been guilty of using it as a diagnosis like it is an illness, but it is actually not a disease or illness, it is simply just a symptom. It is like having a cough or fever. Sometimes a cough and fever can be a sign of simple cold or they can be a sign of cancer or a very severe infection. So we need more information because a person who is simply obese meaning they weigh more than we think they should weigh does not tell us anything important about their health.
Obesity is not a problem of will power. It is hormonally and genetically regulated. That means that there are people who can eat a lot and never gain weight. (And I am sure you know one of them and you are jealous of them-the skinny overeaters, so to speak.) What is known, though, is that the skinny overeater can develop diabetes at a high rate as well. The fact that the matter is that consuming an excess of calories and carbohydrates puts stress on your organs, especially when you do not need them, and that may or may not be reflected in storage in the fat cells. If it is, we consider it bad. If it is not, we consider it okay. But that's simply the wrong way to look at it. We put too much value and too much talk of obesity as a metric for health and it is absolutely not. It does not tell you about quality of a person's life and diet etc. So a person who eats a lot fruits and vegetables, watches what they eat and exercises who is obese is much healthier than a person who can eat 10 candy bars in one sitting and never gain any weight.
Obesity is not addressed by simply eating less. It is not a phenomenon of calories in and calories out as I have noted-it is hormonally and genetically regulated. In fact, the person who tries to starve himself will give up organ tissue and muscle tissue before they give up at adipose tissue. Why? It has a lot to do with survival and conservation of important energy stores as a result of evolution and survival pressures. A million years ago, it was hard to replace and store fat because you had to kill an animal or get a large source of sugar to store fat and those were not readily available a million years ago. They key point here is that our body was designed to always keep a reserve of fat as a last resort, just in case, and when you diet, you don't lose this fat, genetically programmed fat, so easily unless you are in fact, starving.
Low-fat foods can make people more obese than high-fat foods. Low fat foods are laden with corn syrup and sugar and fructose and starch to help them seem like they are fatty but they are full of carbohydrates, sometimes double or triple of the amount of carbohydrates. Those carbohydrates all get processed in your liver as fats and they also stimulate an insulin release which will force your pancreas to work overtime to bring your blood sugar down and then in a few hours you will be hungry again. High-fat foods slow down the stomach and stretch the stomach and release a bunch of satiety hormones like cholecystikinin, and other hormones which help promote satiety.
In regards to addressing obesity, a much more salient question than how much should we eat is how do we promote satiety effectively? Carbohydrates are simply not an effective way to promote satiety. In fact, processed foods are intended for you to eat a lot of them and overeat them. They are made soft and sweet and they act on certain parts of our brain to make us overeat. Wheat and wheat gluten does that as well. We may not always get fat, as the skinny overeater suggests, but there is a price to be paid in the long term as those calories still must be processed, and that takes a metabolic toll.
Finally, obesity can be very beautiful. In fact, I do not understand why we are culturally so programed at this time to have anorexic runway models as being the sign of health. This is more of an opinion than a statement of fact. I will admit that. But it seems to me that for the longest period of time human history has regarded some level of fat accumulation a sign of desirability for reproduction, even in prehistoric man as is evidenced by the Venus of Willendorf
It seems that only very recently has this ultra skinny, skeleton look become popular. This is disturbing because the only way we can get this is through extreme starvation, and when men and women do this they, among other things, will not be able to reproduce. Men can not manufacture sperm and women lose their menses when this form of extreme starvation takes place. Our body does not want to give up the natural fat reserves that most men and women have, and our bodies will not let us reproduce when we do loose them. So why is looking like a heroin abuser or cocaine abuser or methamphetamine abuser sexy? I have no idea. If you have any ideas, please let me know because I am not exactly certain. As a father of 3 young girls, I am concerned about my kids when they are looking at magazines and TV and all the media that is available to us that give us an image this archetype for beauty.
In any case, I hope you will think about this when you think about these facts, when you think about the saturated fat tax of Denmark, and think about it if we ever come to the point where we tax saturated fats in this country.
Obesity is not a diagnosis, it is symptom. I have been guilty of using it as a diagnosis like it is an illness, but it is actually not a disease or illness, it is simply just a symptom. It is like having a cough or fever. Sometimes a cough and fever can be a sign of simple cold or they can be a sign of cancer or a very severe infection. So we need more information because a person who is simply obese meaning they weigh more than we think they should weigh does not tell us anything important about their health.
Obesity is not a problem of will power. It is hormonally and genetically regulated. That means that there are people who can eat a lot and never gain weight. (And I am sure you know one of them and you are jealous of them-the skinny overeaters, so to speak.) What is known, though, is that the skinny overeater can develop diabetes at a high rate as well. The fact that the matter is that consuming an excess of calories and carbohydrates puts stress on your organs, especially when you do not need them, and that may or may not be reflected in storage in the fat cells. If it is, we consider it bad. If it is not, we consider it okay. But that's simply the wrong way to look at it. We put too much value and too much talk of obesity as a metric for health and it is absolutely not. It does not tell you about quality of a person's life and diet etc. So a person who eats a lot fruits and vegetables, watches what they eat and exercises who is obese is much healthier than a person who can eat 10 candy bars in one sitting and never gain any weight.
Obesity is not addressed by simply eating less. It is not a phenomenon of calories in and calories out as I have noted-it is hormonally and genetically regulated. In fact, the person who tries to starve himself will give up organ tissue and muscle tissue before they give up at adipose tissue. Why? It has a lot to do with survival and conservation of important energy stores as a result of evolution and survival pressures. A million years ago, it was hard to replace and store fat because you had to kill an animal or get a large source of sugar to store fat and those were not readily available a million years ago. They key point here is that our body was designed to always keep a reserve of fat as a last resort, just in case, and when you diet, you don't lose this fat, genetically programmed fat, so easily unless you are in fact, starving.
Low-fat foods can make people more obese than high-fat foods. Low fat foods are laden with corn syrup and sugar and fructose and starch to help them seem like they are fatty but they are full of carbohydrates, sometimes double or triple of the amount of carbohydrates. Those carbohydrates all get processed in your liver as fats and they also stimulate an insulin release which will force your pancreas to work overtime to bring your blood sugar down and then in a few hours you will be hungry again. High-fat foods slow down the stomach and stretch the stomach and release a bunch of satiety hormones like cholecystikinin, and other hormones which help promote satiety.
In regards to addressing obesity, a much more salient question than how much should we eat is how do we promote satiety effectively? Carbohydrates are simply not an effective way to promote satiety. In fact, processed foods are intended for you to eat a lot of them and overeat them. They are made soft and sweet and they act on certain parts of our brain to make us overeat. Wheat and wheat gluten does that as well. We may not always get fat, as the skinny overeater suggests, but there is a price to be paid in the long term as those calories still must be processed, and that takes a metabolic toll.
Finally, obesity can be very beautiful. In fact, I do not understand why we are culturally so programed at this time to have anorexic runway models as being the sign of health. This is more of an opinion than a statement of fact. I will admit that. But it seems to me that for the longest period of time human history has regarded some level of fat accumulation a sign of desirability for reproduction, even in prehistoric man as is evidenced by the Venus of Willendorf
It seems that only very recently has this ultra skinny, skeleton look become popular. This is disturbing because the only way we can get this is through extreme starvation, and when men and women do this they, among other things, will not be able to reproduce. Men can not manufacture sperm and women lose their menses when this form of extreme starvation takes place. Our body does not want to give up the natural fat reserves that most men and women have, and our bodies will not let us reproduce when we do loose them. So why is looking like a heroin abuser or cocaine abuser or methamphetamine abuser sexy? I have no idea. If you have any ideas, please let me know because I am not exactly certain. As a father of 3 young girls, I am concerned about my kids when they are looking at magazines and TV and all the media that is available to us that give us an image this archetype for beauty.
In any case, I hope you will think about this when you think about these facts, when you think about the saturated fat tax of Denmark, and think about it if we ever come to the point where we tax saturated fats in this country.
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