The Top Foods To Eat For Weight Loss

[love-kills]

Did anyone else see this?:

If you want to lose weight, exercise and eat protein. A high-protein diet seems to enhance the benefits of exercise, helping you to lose fat without losing muscle, according to researchers from the University of Illinois. The best foods to eat for weight loss are meat, dairy products, eggs and nuts.

From Netscape (http://channels.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060510-1132)



I read the whole article and went "duh". :lol:


Also found this on Netscape:



5 Foods to Stop Eating Now

If you want to live longer and healthier, it could be as simple as changing your diet. And in this case, it's not so much what you eat as what you don't eat that is most important.

http://channels.netscape.com/homerealestate/package.jsp?name=fte/stopeating5foods/stopeating5foods&floc=HR-1_T


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[sailsouth]

Eat meat and dairy ... but what ever you do, don't eat saturated fat!:rolleyes::roll:


"Dr. Oz encourages you to cook with healthy oils, such .... flaxseed ..."


Noooo! ;)

[kebaldwin]

You eat eggs for the amino acids (and some protein) and meat for the protein (and some other vitamins and amino acids), take your supplements, and do strength training exercise -- you will burn fat and build muscle.

We use to know this (body builders / muscle men use to preach this when I was a kid) and forgot it.

[JL53563]

4. Saturated fat
When saturated fats, which are found primarily in animal products, are placed at room temperature, they become solid--like lard. While it's great to use as furniture polish and even lotion for your skin, you don't want to eat it. Think what it will do to your arteries!

Last time I checked, my body temperature was well above room temperature. The fact that saturated fat is solid at room temperature has absolutely nothing to do with how it acts in our bodies after being eaten.

[Dodger]

Does the doctor know that whole wheat is solid at room temperature?

[TBoneMitch]

Cooking with flaxseed oil is one of the best way to get a huge dose of free radicals inside your body.

Plus it must make food taste like paint varnish.

[JL53563]

Does the doctor know that whole wheat is solid at room temperature?

Excellent!!!

[danabear]

Last time I checked, my body temperature was well above room temperature. The fact that saturated fat is solid at room temperature has absolutely nothing to do with how it acts in our bodies after being eaten.

I've always wondered about this. Doesn't make sense.

[love-kills]

Does the doctor know that whole wheat is solid at room temperature?

Oh, I giggled at that. :lol:

[arc]

Does the doctor know that whole wheat is solid at room temperature?

Ahhh, but can you polish your furniture with it?

[kwikdriver]

"Sugar is supposed to be eaten, of course," Oz told Oprah, "but it should come together with fat or some element like fiber--as you would find in fruit--so you can absorb it a bit more slowly."

Yes! Strawberry Cheesecake here I come, baby! Sugar, plenty of fat, and the graham cracker crust and strawberries give it fiber. It's the perfect heath food!

[refmls]

Ahhh, but can you polish your furniture with it?

Actually, if it's really whole grain and you crack the berries, you can. You'll get a nice shine but not the hard linseed finish.

[arc]

Actually, if it's really whole grain and you crack the berries, you can. You'll get a nice shine but not the hard linseed finish.

Well, there you go. Whole grain is solid at room temperature and you can polish your furniture with it. It's just as bad for you as saturated fat, according to Dr. Oz's criteria.

[sexee_babe]

Can someone explain how our brain needs carbs? They say that the Brain runs on Carbs....need more info.
Thanx

[kaypeeoh]

The brain prefers sugar. If the body runs out of stored sugar (liver and muscle glycogen) the brain can use fatty acids for energy. I found while fasting for 14 days my brain functioned reasonably well.

[kwikdriver]

Not sugar or carbs, but glucose.

Michael Eades, the Protein Power guy, explains it this way:

The brain does need about 130 grams of glucose per day. It actually needs more like 200 grams of glucose per day, but during fasting or a low-carbohydrate diet the body begins producing ketones, which replace about 70 grams of the required glucose in the brain, dropping the overall requirement to about 130 grams per day. If a person only eats 20 grams of carbohydrate per day, the liver makes the other 110 grams. The liver is perfectly capable of churning out about 200 grams, or a cup, of sugar per day--even if you don't eat anything--so the brain isn't going to be deprived.

What sometimes does occur is what we call Ketone Brain. Let me explain. If you are on a high carbohydrate diet containing 200-400 grams of sugar (or sugar equivalents) per day, your brain has all the glucose it needs. (It actually has more than it needs; excess brain glucose is thought by many to be one of the driving forces behind Alzheimer's and other dementias of aging. But that's another story for another day.) If your brain is steaming along, fueled with all the glucose it needs, then you go on a low-carb diet and the glucose is cut off, the brain converts to using ketone bodies. But this conversion doesn't happen in a split second. It takes a little bit for the conversion to take place. During this brief period you may feel a little fuzzy headed, but as soon as the conversion is complete, you actually think more clearly.

[kebaldwin]

I have found that my ability to focus, alertness, and concentrate is greatly improved when I do NOT eat carbs. On low carb I can go from 5 AM to about 10 PM. On carbs, I can think for a couple of hours per day.

Eating high glycemic is tied to dementia, stroke, and other mental diseases.

I am not up on biotech cell whatever -- but my understanding is that carbs are simply converted to blood sugar and the blood sugar fuels the body. Your body can convert fat and protein to blood sugar also -- but near as efficiently since your body needs fat and protein for other things as well.

But if your body does not get enough protein and fat it suffers.

So you can be healthy without carbohydrate -- but not be healthy without protein and fat.