Diet & Fitness - 5 Answers
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Fat consumption helps level out lipids. You just need to eat more fat. Eat high saturated fat, moderate protein. You see, saturated fat gets a bad rap because it is solid at room temperature. They say that it will clog your arteries. They don’t tell you that you need it for hormone regulation and to retain Vitamins A,D,E, and K. Also, they say that it will raise cholesterol. Your body makes cholesterol, about 1g a day. If you eat cholesterol your body doesn't manufacture as much. You cannot eat as much as your body makes per day. Now, when you live off of grains (like tofu, oatmeal, any soy, potatoes, corn, ect.) your body cannot produce the insulin to process it all, so your liver makes the excess into VLDL to protect your kidney's from the excess sugar spilling over into them. VLDL isn't bad, but as it is used it degrades and loses triglycerides become LDL (bad cholesterol). Consuming fat takes a load off of your body and can actually help lipid levels because if you are eating lots of fat you probably aren't eating lots of carbs. Eat natural things like butter, green vegetables, non starchy vegetables, starchy vegetables in small amounts, olive oil, nuts, beef, eggs, chicken, fish, whole diary cheese, whole diary milk, ect. Also, your high will grow faster and so will your nails.
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Even if this research is accurate/true it still does not matter because the leading cause of death in the US is heart disease not cancer or diabetes. The magnitude of deaths resulting from heart disease is so great that it dwarfs all other diseases. Consider this, for more than 40 years, heart disease has been the leading cause of death for Americans AND the number has been increasing every year without a plateau in the statistics. This means more deaths from heart disease this year than last year, and more next year than this year. Just to give you a comparison. The US deaths from WWII was about 404,000 over 4 years which is about 101,000/year. US deaths from heart disease is over 250,000/year - more than double the rate of war casuality from WWII. Furthermore, we are seeing heart disease in younger people. It use to be that we see it in people in their late-60's or older. But we are beginning to see it in people as young as late-30's. Obesity is now pandemic in American society, so a shortage in body fat is not likely a concern. Next time you are out in public, just take a sampling of people you see out in the street and you will see that obese people are by far the majority.
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OK, I guess this means that means I'm in trouble! You see, you just can't win in life sometimes, no matter what you do! I recently lost 40 pounds of weight I had been carrying around for 18 years. I am 53. I did it by eating properly and exercising over a period of less than five months. Now, no one told me during that time that it was good to have fat on me. In fact, from everything I had ever read, it was not a good thing that I had fat on me! So, now that I am at the weight I was at 20 and toned at the same time, you can imagine how thrilled I am by this achievement so late in life, yet another article sheds a new light! I had never had fat in the areas you're describing until I gained weight and even then there wasn't a large concentrated fat storage in any particular area, just an overall fat issue. I guess you could say, I carried my fat well, if there is such an achievement in life. I am always astounded when I read such articles and yes, I did hear what you are stating on the news last week. It just goes to show you, that you really can't win, no matter what you do. I think that we have so much information out there, everyday on a continuous basis, that we simply have to use our basic common sense so that we don't live in a state of confusion. I feel, and no, I'm no "expert" that the weight I was when I reached adulthood was the weight I was meant to be in life. That may sound strange to some people. I don't think so, but I sure feel better about myself now, then when I had those 40 pounds of extra weight on me! Best Wishes!
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Give yourself a treat When you tell yourself that you can't have something you want it more. Give yourself a treat once a day ( ie. half a cookie) and you won't feel you are missing out.
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BTW his name is Ronald not Robert. (Made it a little more difficult to check out) Kahn noted that obesity in the abdominal or visceral area—the classic “beer belly†or “apple†shape—increases the risk of diabetes and mortality, and said it has been thought that obesity in subcutaneous areas—the “pear†shape—might decrease such risks. “We started out to answer the basic question of whether fat inside the belly is bad for you because of where it is located, or is abdominal fat itself different from fat in other places,†said Kahn, an internationally recognized researcher in diabetes and metabolism. To test if the differences were due to anatomic location or intrinsic properties of the fat deposits themselves, transplantations were performed in mice. The researchers found that when subcutaneous fat was transplanted into the abdominal area, there was a decrease in body weight, fat mass, glucose and insulin levels and an improvement in insulin sensitivity. By contrast, transplantation of abdominal fat into either the abdominal or subcutaneous area had no effect. The subcutaneous fat, which is more commonly found on women’s legs and buttocks than men’s, has also been shown to improve the production on the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels and adipokines which boost the metabolism. Professor Ronald Khan, who led the research, said: “The surprising thing was that it wasn’t where the fat was located, it was the kind of fat that was the most important. “Even more surprising, it wasn’t that abdominal fat was exerting negative effects, but that subcutaneous fat was producing a good effect
