In this case, I addressed the no-bread-no-butter, only-so-much-steak-you-can-eat position at length in Good Calories, Bad Calories ( The Diet Delusion, in the UK). I even quoted Jane Brody making this point in the epigraph to Chapter 20 - “Unconventional Diets” - and set it off against a quote from the DuPont physician Alfred Pennington to contrast how the same observation - weight loss and absence of hunger on a diet unrestricted in calories - could be perceived by one person, Pennington, as a “mighty stimulant to thought on the matter,” and by another, Brody, as a triviality to be dismissed without much concious thought (as my friend did in the e-mail). One is the tendency we all have (or at least I have and I do see it in others) to assume that just because we’ve written something, other people have read it or certainly should have read it. I thought a lot about this e-mail after I received it, for two reasons. So over time, on average we eat fewer calories when we cut out simple and most complex carbs.
What happens if you clear getting over it game first try full#
There is only so much “whole chicken and steak” and even full fat yogurt with berries that most of us can stomach. You eat a lot less butter when you can’t eat the bread or potato or pasta or cake or pie…etc, etc. When you cut out carbs, you cut out most of the fat–yes, you can eat pure whipped cream, but not the cake or ice cream you’d normally put it on–so why bother? Yes, you can eat fried porkchops, but not breaded fried porkchops–or clams or chicken–so that cuts calories a bunch. Sugar and fat infused foods packaged and “ready to eat” are what has made America obese–sitting around doesn’t help, either. Do I think there is strong evidence that carbs per se (in absence of excess calories) will result in excess weight gain? No I do not.Īs I wrote in –sugar ain’t great, nor is excess fat.
Do I think that can be a problem for some people, hence steering clear of simple carbs is a good idea for them? I do, and said so on national radio. (Japan, for example–and yes, I know they are not all slim, but we both know they have a very low obesity rate.) Do I think some people get “hooked” on sweets and simple carbs? Yes, I do. And I know you know that many cultures that consume large amounts of carbohydrate but low fat and relatively low sugar are not fat. I think in our hearts we basically agree–I know you believe in calories because you are a scientist. Here’s how one put it in an e-mail back to me (and I’ve made a few minor changes so that this writer can remain suitably anonymous): They all expressed their admiration for the effort in private, although none of them perceived it as worth writing up publicly, at least not until we have experimental results to discuss.Ī couple of these journalists took the opportunity to insist that we didn’t really disagree all that much on what we had argued over the years, and they explained why. I was hoping to see them embrace the idea that our conflicting ideas should and could be tested, and any organization that could make this happen would be a good thing and worthy of public support.
I included a few who had vehemently and even publicly disagreed with the arguments I’ve made in my books and articles.
When we announced the creation of the Nutrition Science Initiative ( NuSI) in September, I e-mailed information packets and press releases to many of my colleagues in science and health journalism. In addition, they can suggest particular ways in which both expectation and theory must henceforth be revised. Thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate the nature of things…. The primary philosophical challenge of thought experiments is simple: How can we learn about reality (if we can at all), just by thinking? More precisely, are there thought experiments that enable us to acquire new knowledge about the intended realm of investigation without new data?… hought experiments can disclose nature’s failure to conform to a previously held set of expectations.
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