e-commerceunleashed's Journal, 04 January 2017

A Calorie is Not a Calorie

I don't know how many people keep abreast of nutritional research, but a few years ago Coke and some of the other soda companies came out with research that stated a calorie is a calorie. We simply needed to move more. I can still see the commercial of a runner downing a Coke after a long run. Seriously? We are supposed to believe that? Unfortunately our brainwashed society believes if it is on TV then it is true. Oh how mistaken we are.

Recent research into what causes obesity has yielded some interesting results that seems to contradict that research. We now know that our bodies handle sugar differently that whole foods. Consume 120 calories from a soda and that sugar is going to be converted into fat. It's simply what our bodies are designed to do. Fat is supposed to be our energy stores during a time of famine. When we were hunter gatherers we would find sweet tasting food and gorge on it. We knew it was only available for a short period of time and we needed that fat to get us through the lean winters.

Now conversely, eat 120 calories of protein. Our bodies are not going to convert that into fat. It is going to convert it into amino acids, hormones and enzymes our bodies need to repair itself. It's what allows us to build muscle. Eating that protein allows us to burn the fat stores we built up eating the sugars. Our problem is we consume more sugar than our bodies can use and we end up in a fat surplus. Until you use up those stores, you are never going to lose weight.

Simple carbs such as breads and pastas are the one food we do not need to survive. In fact, you can eat a diet of high fat and protein and nothing else and you will do just fine. Of course that comes with the caveat that you are eating nutritious protein such as pastured beef, pork and fowl. Try eating like this on regular corporate meat and you will have nutritional issues.

So by now you understand that the quality of food is probably more important than anything else you do. Garbage in, garbage out. Obesity and weight loss has been turned into something appearing to be too complex to solve on your own. That is the fault of big business and big pharma. There is a simple solution and we all inherently know what that is. The problem is divorcing ourselves from the rich, sweet foods that we have become addicted to, and yes that includes me!

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2109 kcal

Fat: 82.82g | Prot: 118.62g | Carb: 218.72g.   Breakfast: Oscar Mayer Selects Smoked Uncured Bacon, Egg, Maxwell House Breakfast Blend. Lunch: Trader Joe's Organic Brown Rice, Giant Eagle Cherry Tomatoes, Gala Apples, Mozzarella Cheese (Whole Milk), Turkey Light Meat (Cooked, Roasted). Dinner: Organic Pastures Grade A Raw Whole Milk, Knorr Cajun Sides - Garlic Butter Rice, Cooked Flounder. Snacks/Other: Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Intense Dark 72%, Meijer Starlight Mints, Utz Pork Rinds, Roasted Salted Cashew Nuts, Black Tea. more...