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For instance, DJT should be pretty darn close to obese but it's still OK whenever he's wearing a suit
vgpedlr wrote:I had nightmares about that tennis photo.
Lou wrote:What happens to excess carbs? Some days (often) I'm eating oatmeal and berries, potatoes, rice, corn, barley, quinoa, beans, green and yellow vegetables (some raw) and some fruit, cereal and/or bread all day long. You were right! I love this food! Too much, maybe? I don't count calories or try to keep track. I think I'm eating more carbs than what I burn in a day. I exercise every day. I should be around 80-10-10 on these days. Even with minimal fat and protein coming from the foods I listed above, my weight continues to fluctuate up as well as down. Is it possible to eat too much starch? What happens to excess? Am I experiencing de novo lipogenesis?
AlwaysAgnes wrote:Study: Carb Binges don't cause Weight Gain? | Where do the calories go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lue1SC3KpXU
We now know that the theory was wrong because your muscles can only store a very limited amount of sugar and all extra carbohydrates are immediately stored as fat. When you load up on refined carbohydrates such as bakery products, pastas and potatoes before a competition, you just become fatter. All the extra fat that forms will cause you to carry extra weight and slow you down during your race. If you already store too much fat, this overloading can make you diabetic or even suffer a heart attack. If you already have blocked arteries leading to your heart, you can kill yourself by loading with sugar or flour for just one meal.
How Carbohydrate Loading Can Harm
When you take in a lot of refined carbohydrates, your blood sugar rises. The first extra sugar is stored in your muscles and liver, but they only hold a meager amount. The liver then converts the extra blood sugar to a fat called triglycerides. A high rise in blood fat can cause clots, so much of the fat is immediately removed from your bloodstream. It is stored in fat cells, which makes you fatter, or in your liver. Fat in your liver drives blood sugar levels even higher. High blood sugar levels can cause inflammation, which can break plaques off from the inner lining of your arteries. This can block blood flow to the heart and cause a heart attack.
roundcoconut wrote:I see a tendency among some in the plant-based movement, to espouse and promote magical thinking. Like, “just eat more and more intact starches and watch the weight fall away”. And I honestly think we do people a massive disservice by acting like there’s a magic beyond the simple math of calorie density.
Anyone else see these themes going through the plant-based community? I sometimes feel I am the only one!
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