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Pittsburg, Kansas | Cheap food was the goal and it kind of morphed into a monster of its own.
The good news is through technology and increase in agriculture production there are a lot fewer starving people around the world. And most of the ones that are still starving are more likely be to poor management of their society or perhaps a regional drought. But enough carbs to keep the worlds population alive is hardly a problem any more.
Carbs are a cheap energy source. They just don't do very well in the way of a diversified nutritional foundation. Need meat and/or seafood products for that. Essential amino acids are.................. well, essential. Meat is the best source and maybe the only source in some cases.
If you want to fatten up a hog for butcher do you feed it meat or meat scraps (which is sometimes a hog feed ingredient for the nutrition portion of the diet)? Or do you feed it starchy corn? You feed it corn (carbohydrates) to fatten. Humans are fattened the same way. Excessive carbohydrate consumption. Goes into blood stream as glucose which is dangerous at high levels so the body does all it can to reduce glucose levels by the pancrreas putting out insulin to tell the cells to take the glucose out of the bloodstream. A little bit goes to current energy needs but most has to go for future energy needs and is stored energy stored as fat in the fat cells.
As long as insulin levels in the body are high it is the signal to the body is to store excess energy, wether the energy consumed is carbs or fat or both at once. The only way the body has the signal to go to stored energy fat and use it is with the insulin signal being very low. Very low insulin can be acomplished a few different ways. By not eating (fasting), eating fewer calories of energy than the current needs of the body (dieting by reducing consumption) or eating only foods that do not raise insulin (meat and fat only marginally affects insulin levels, carbs have a great insuligenic effect - so don't eat carbs to get insulin low).
Insulin levels in the body are the key to either fat loss or fat storage.
To gain weight, raise insulin (like type I diabetics need to take insulin shots or they waste away no matter how much or how many calories they eat) by eating foods that raise insulin, namely carbohydrates. To lose fat weight reduce the foods that raise insulin to levels that will cause insulin levels to lower. For healthy people that is around 100 grams of carbohydrates a day or less. For a diabetic type II like me it takes much lower like around 20-50 grams carbohydrates or less.
Type II diabetics have excess insulin flowing in their blood. It is why they have a terrible time losing weight. Type I diabetics have a pancreas that makes zero insulin. It is an entirely different disease. One is excess insulin, the other is lack of insulin. The only commonality between type I and II is the resulting high glucose levels and the health problems high blood sugar causes (amputations, bleeders in the eyes, heart disease, poor circulation in extremities, etc.).
Giving a type I diabetic insulin shots is life saving. Giving a type II diabetic insulin shots solves the high blood sugar problem somewhat but actually causes the disease to progress worse because of the already through the roof insulin levels. The medical system focuses almost entirely on blood sugar levels. They do not go after the root cause of the disease which is excess insulin levels.
Edited by John Burns 1/31/2025 06:05
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