fast food you piglets

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"Diabetes is now an epidemic. One of the main causes of diabetes is carbohydrates, especially the useless kind (sugar, white flour) and consuming carbohydrates when not burning them off with exersize. Carbs are the one thing that sends my blood sugar through the roof."

Simple carbs such as refined flour and refined sugar are indeed bad.

"For several hundred thousand years, hominids ate mostly fat and protien."

Actually, hominids ate mainly protein, fat and vegetables (and fruits). Atkins leaves out the veggie part in his "history lesson" because it doesn't jibed hat well with his overall approach.

"Then agriculture came and grains were grown in abundance. The body was not built for this new dietary source. Granted that it can be healthy if eaten right (not processed flour) and you exercise the carbs off, but fast food carbs and sitting around is a grreat combination for diabetes."

There is a significant difference between refined grains and whole grains, including how your body metabolizes them. Agreed too that fast food is just bad for you overall and that a sedentary fast food lifestyle points towards diabetes in many.

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Just to expound a bit against Atkins' assertion that the human body is designed primarily for fats and proteins: let's compare the typical body design of carnivores vs. herbivores and see which we look most like.

Carnivorous mammals typically have:

* lots of canine teeth and no molar teeth

* small roundish stomachs

* short intestinal tracts

Herbivorous mammals typically have:

* molars but no canine teeth

* elongated stomachs or even multiple stomachs

* long convoluted intestinal tracts


Ok, now, humans have:

* 4 canine teeth and 12 molars

* elongated stomachs

* long convoluted intestinal tracts

From this it would appear that we are designed more for eating plant matter than for eating meat.

What do chimpanzees, our closest cousins of the present day, eat? Mostly plant matter with some meat thrown in on occasion. It would seem this is what we are designed to eat, too.

Atkins is right however that our bodies are not designed to effectively process loads of refined carbs or processed sugars on a regular basis. A simple way of looking at it is: simple carbs = bad, complex carbs = good. Veggies and whole grains tend mostly to be complex carbs. Refined flour and refined sugar products, and some fruit sugars, tend to be simple carbs. However not all fruit sugars (unrefined) are as bad as other simple carbs.

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Even people who aren't diabetic should take heed. Many of the foods which are bad for diabetics aren't good for non-diabetics either. Also, a bad diet and/or lifestyle can cause or hasten the onset of diabetes in many who would not get it otherwise.

[ACPlayer]

Hey watch it buster, you are talking about one of America's great exports to the world (along with coca cola and cigarettes).

For further insights into all hamburger products in America (including those at your local Kroger, Giant Eagle, Stop n Shop etc) read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.

I am off to have some freshly made Pho Bo.

[ACPlayer]

Now why is mayo bad?"
Because it is high in saturated fats. I don't keep mayo in the house but I'll bet it also has processed sugar


Actually Mayonnaise (specially if you make your own) is not bad and is not high in saturated fats -- it does have fat so use sparingly. The ingredients are oil (choose your own), eggs, and lemon juice. Nobody sells it like this because of shelf life problems, so make you own, it is quite simple.

Miracle whip on the other hand may have anything at all in it.

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"Actually Mayonnaise (specially if you make your own) is not bad and is not high in saturated fats -- it does have fat so use sparingly. The ingredients are oil (choose your own), eggs, and lemon juice. Nobody sells it like this because of shelf life problems, so make you own, it is quite simple."

For once, ACPlayer, it seems you are right and I am wrong;-)

A tablespoon of real mayonnaise has 2 grams of saturated fat and 10 or more grams of unsaturated fat. Still, it is high in calories, and the cholesterol is not good if your diet is already too high in cholesterol (as are the diets of most Americans).

Whuss up with all these recent posts bashing "fast food?"
It's like you've become a born-again christian. Except it's our colon you're interested in saving.

iL douché

...and the Lord saidith unto Abraham, "pass thy chips you friggin' Bogart."

[Nepa]

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Now why is mayo bad?"
Because it is high in saturated fats.

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I switch to Mustard. Low/No calarie

[ArchAngel71857]

Some of the worst offenders are these TGI McGillicuddy places


WTF is TGI McGillicuddy?

-AA

[J_V]

Are you 17 or 18?