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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I woke up this morning thinking about this thread and the example of Subway in particular. I recall an episode of the Biggest Loser where the trainers treated everyone to a teriyaki. Chicken sub and extolled the virtues of this healthy lunch. That's the problem! So much added sugar and so much bad information. So many of us are trying so hard. We tried nutri systems and weight watchers and Jane Brody and fit it's and podcasts and it really does feel like the whole diet industry just takes your money and lies to you. He'll, I went to some shady place where they sold me amphetamines to curb my appetite. Now I have given up carbs and sugar and am weighing and measuring my food. I have been dieting for thirty years.[/quote]
And that faulty advice - given everywhere from doctor’s offices to magazines to your nosy neighbor - that it’s just calories and fat! It’s crap. It’s processed, sweet, anti-nutritious crap and it sends your blood sugar and insulin on a wild ride if you’re inclined to problems with insulin. It has no fiber, the “vegetables” as minimal and sickly (and have probably been treated with bleach water or something similar to keep them from going bad)... it is perhaps the worst thing a person with weight problems can eat.

But this has been the advice, for decades. Don’t eat dietary fat. Eat carbs!

I mentioned incretins/linked to the New York Times article about them several pages back. They seem to represent a real possibility for making a fat body’s systems behave like a thin body’s, which means a lot. I know they’re not approved for weight loss yet, but I’m going to go ahead and guess that some docs will be prescribing them off label sooner rather than later. [/quote]

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