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Eating After 6pm, Jimmy Carr lost 3 stone this way! Really?

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  • #32
    edwinkane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭edwinkane


    Hanley wrote: »
    Why?

    Well, thats a good question. Everyone has their own pet theories which they just "know" are true, and everyone nowadays seems obsessed with "health" believing that some foods are "good" and some others are "bad". Then you add fashion into the mix, and hey presto!, a whole industry grows up offering to sell you the latest crank fads. Remember the "Nutron Diet"? Or the hundreds of other diets which were fashionable for a time.

    Its all designed to lighted to load in your wallet, and it is true that, in the capitalist world, a fool and his money are easily parted.


  • #33
    Blatter
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    Hanley wrote: »
    I still dispute this.

    I'm pretty much 100% certain that if I ate 2,700kcals a day in Mars bars, and 2,700kcals a day in chicken fillets and peanut butter, I'd end up looking totally different after 2 months.

    http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/eat-candy-lose-weight.htm

    Not according to this guy!
    Dr Haub, who teaches human nutrition at Kansas State University, lost 27 pounds in two months on a diet of chocolate bars, chips, biscuits, pizza, doughnuts and sugary cereals. He occasionally ate some low-calorie vegetables.

    Despite his diet of sugary, salty and fatty processed food, his health indicators actually improved. His LDL-cholesterol, which is linked to a greater risk of heart disease, fell 20 per cent, while his 'good' HDL-cholesterol rose by 20 per cent. Dr Haub's body fat also fell from 33.4 to 24.9 per cent.

    The results certainly surprised me.

    (Not saying I'd recommend this diet, as it's obviously not sustainable)


  • #34
    edwinkane
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    SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »
    http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/eat-candy-lose-weight.htm

    Not according to this guy!



    The results certainly surprised me.

    (Not saying I'd recommend this diet, as it's obviously not sustainable)

    Why is it obviously not sustainable? Are you implying that it's sustainable to lose weight for 2 months, but not for 6 months or 4 months? That sounds illogical.


  • #35
    Blatter
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    edwinkane wrote: »
    Why is it obviously not sustainable? Are you implying that it's sustainable to lose weight for 2 months, but not for 6 months or 4 months? That sounds illogical.

    No, the length of time he lost the weight is irrelevant as to why I think it's unsustainable.

    If you eat like crap like that you will more than likely experience hunger pangs and you will feel like you have to restrict yourself alot as the food is calorie dense but does not have a feel full effect.

    In other words, you'd feel like crap.


  • #36
    edwinkane
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    SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »
    No, the length of time he lost the weight is irrelevant as to why I think it's unsustainable.

    If you eat like crap like that you will more than likely experience hunger pangs and you will feel like you have to restrict yourself alot as the food is calorie dense but does not have a feel full effect.

    In other words, you'd feel like crap.

    Would I? Are you arguing that feeling "crap" is equivalent to unsustainable?

    Surely you'd feel no more "crap" after 6 months than you would after 2 months.

    There is a widely held belief that we can only eat certain foods and should avoid other foods. If you've ever read anything by those kept in prisoner of war camps, for example Colditz, and they seem to have survived, some for years, on a very restricted diet lacking in nutrition. I think it was Alex Reid, who was in Colditz, who wrote about that and concluded that the body could adapt to almost any food and survive perfectly well.

    We seem to now be afraid to eat almost anything as we fear its going to make us fat, or give us cancer, and so many of us have become unnecessarily neurotic about food.


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  • #37
    Blatter
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    edwinkane wrote: »
    Would I? Are you arguing that feeling "crap" is equivalent to unsustainable?

    Surely you'd feel no more "crap" after 6 months than you would after 2 months.

    I never mentioned anything about feeling more crap and hungry the longer you did it, my point was the longer you feel crap and hungry, the less likely you are to keep it up, hence ''unsustainable''.

    edwinkane wrote: »
    There is a widely held belief that we can only eat certain foods and should avoid other foods. If you've ever read anything by those kept in prisoner of war camps, for example Colditz, and they seem to have survived, some for years, on a very restricted diet lacking in nutrition. I think it was Alex Reid, who was in Colditz, who wrote about that and concluded that the body could adapt to almost any food and survive perfectly well.

    At what cost is quality of life here?

    edwinkane wrote: »
    We seem to now be afraid to eat almost anything as we fear its going to make us fat, or give us cancer, and so many of us have become unnecessarily neurotic about food.

    Hardly surprising seeing as the number of obesity related illnesses has been rapidly increasing over the last number of years.


  • #38
    howtomake
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    At my leanest I often ate twice after 6pm, one being my biggest meal of the day. I'm a snack/meal every 3 hours kind of gal. Then again I also workout in the evenings.

    Anyway how can you trust anything a comedian says? :p
    Does anyone have a link to the clip, can't seem to find it.


  • #39
    edwinkane
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    SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »
    I never mentioned anything about feeling more crap and hungry the longer you did it, my point was the longer you feel crap and hungry, the less likely you are to keep it up, hence ''unsustainable''.




    At what cost is quality of life here?




    Hardly surprising seeing as the number of obesity related illnesses has been rapidly increasing over the last number of years.

    Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate junk food as I think it's usually pretty disgusting and the alternatives are more delicious. I think adults who, for example, drink those carbonated sugary drinks so beloved by children, are suspect. The drinks are disgusting, and how an adult can enjoy a beverage which is sweetened to such a degree, suggests they have never developed their taste buds.

    But facts are facts and calories are calories, and we need to ingest calories to survive.

    Does it not occur to you as ironic that the more we are afraid to eat for fear of getting fat or getting cancer etc etc, the more we seem to be getting fatter and fatter?


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