High Fat Diet Breaks The Body Clock to Accumulate Fat_ Forget The calories See The Carbo’s vs. Fat Content
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You should still try to stay away from highly processed foods no matter what they are (processed foods:
Prepared and packaged at the factory)
MNT’s Sunday Supplement: Overall calorie intake may not be important for obesity and weight loss.
Conventional scientific opinion says that eating too many calories without doing enough exercise to burn them off again causes weight gain. But this prevailing energy balance model a fresh challenge from the carbohydrate-insulin model (CIM) following the publication of a new article in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The CIM argues that it is the quality of the food a person eats — rather than the quantity — that determines whether a person will gain weight and eventually develop obesity. Consuming large quantities of processed and starchy carbohydrates in particular sustains a cascade of hormonal and metabolic changes that result in the storage of excess energy as fat.
Crucially, the CIM says that the urge to eat too many calories is a result of accumulating excess fat in the body, not its cause. This directly opposes the energy balance model.
So which model is correct? The answer has huge implications for the diets of billions of people, as well as the prospects of overcoming the obesity pandemic.
This week, Medical News Today spoke with several experts from both camps about the merits and shortcomings of each model. There is one thing that both models agree on: the sugars and refined grains that make up 42% of the calories in the U.S. diet should be drastically reduced.
To learn more about both models and the debate that rages around them, jump to “Obesity and weight loss: Why overall calorie intake may not be so important.”
Also, this weekend, we cover new research into the effect of a high fat diet on the body’s timekeeping, news of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine that doesn’t require expensive refrigeration, and a look at the link between eye health and dementia. You can find these and more new stories below.
We’ll return with our regular daily newsletter tomorrow. In the meantime, we welcome your comments about the articles in this weekend’s Sunday Supplement. Please send them to us by email. Tim Snaith
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Obesity:
High fat diet breaks the body clock in rats
A new study in rats investigates how a high fat diet significantly disrupts their natural night-day rhythms in eating behavior, promoting obesity.
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