#Things to consider
- Stop thinking about the notion that the paradigm “calories in/calories out” is true.
- The science itself makes clear that hormones, enzymes, and growth factors regulate our fat tissue, just as they do everything else in the human body, and that we do not get fat because we overeat; we get fat because the carbohydrates in our diet make us fat.
- The science tells us that obesity is ultimately the result of a hormonal imbalance, not a caloric one — specifically, the stimulation of insulin secretion caused by eating easily digestible, carbohydrate-rich foods: refined carbohydrates, including flour and cereal grains, starchy vegetables such as potatoes, and sugars, like sucrose (table sugar) and high-fructose corn syrup. These carbohydrates literally make us fat, and by driving us to accumulate fat, they make us hungrier and they make us sedentary.
- So many different belief systems enter into the question of what constitutes a healthy diet that the scientific question—why do we get fat?—has gotten lost along the way. It’s been overshadowed by ethical, moral, and sociological considerations that are valid in themselves and certainly worth discussing but have nothing to do with the science itself and arguably no place in a scientific inquiry.
#Three laws of thermodynamics
- The first one is the energy conservation law which most experts believe is determining why we get fat. But this law says nothing about cause and effect. Nothing about why we actually do get fat. Nothing about why we consume more calories than we expend. Only that if we do, we will get heavier and if we get heavier, well, then we did.
- HDL cholesterol is good. You want to have it high since it lowers the risk of a heart attack
- LDL cholesterol on the other hand is bad and you want to have as little of it as possible.
- Triglycerides are molecules that forms in your fat cells. It’s like a tree sticking out and nurturing the fat. You want these to be as small as possible. They are formed by the body secreting insulin.