Eat Lots; Digest Little

varp writes: "Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have figured out a way to reduce body fat even though you keep pumping yourself with all the grease you can lay your hands on while sitting on the couch and doing nothing. Next wish: Please, please identify the gene which can cause my arteries to choke."

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Green-glowing jellyfish

[Kotetsu]

The researchers employed a novel technique that used a virus tagged with a green-glowing jellyfish protein to visualize the feeding circuit in the brain of a mouse.

The nutritional results are interesting, although practical application in humans is years away. The interesting thing is the use of more stuff from those green-glowing jellyfish. They've used it in plants and monkeys, and now viruses. Who would have thought that glowing jellyfish could end up being so useful?

Glowing Jellyfish

[fatrob]

If jellyfish are used in this process, don't you think most people will be freaked? Though it must work because when I have jellyfish on the brain I can't stomach food either. I wish I knew how the virus thing worked, though.

What goal

[Shotgun]

``If we find a drug that can be used to regulate ACC2 without having some other side effects, I think we've achieved our goal,'' he said.

Stop to consider this for a moment. The western world is rich, with little need for the average human to have to do strenuous work for a living. They can afford to eat all they want, without having to do anything to work that food off. They keep adding fuel, without ever reving their engine. Digestion is a simple system really.

The human body is designed through years of evolutionary development to want to store up fuel as fat. Cyclical weather patterns with the accompanying cyles of feast and famine, insured that those who could store up more energy during the feast periods would fare better during the famine. The problem is, you can't continually add food without burning it off. You can't keep storing up for ever. The western world sees a continuous feast, without ever seeing the famine.

Enter these guys who have a goal of putting a hole in the fuel tank. Instead of stopping the pump, or driving the car for a while, their goal is to let the fuel pour out on the ground. This is ludicrous in its simple-minded short sightedness.

This may be a good technique for some troubling cases, but a much better solution for the majority of people is to push back from the table and get off their fat asses. I say this as a person who has lost 50lbs in the past year, and went from barely being able to run a mile in 12 minutes to running a 6:30 mile and winning a wrestling tournament this past weekend.

Westerners need to drop the idea of loosing weight, and start concentrating on making the body burn the fuel it takes in. This type of solution may make you tip the scales at a lower point, but it won't make you any healthier. There is a lot of evidence that increase flow rate of the blood does a lot of the work of cleaning arteries. How will sitting on the couch eating '0-calory' chips increase blood flow.

In summary, this type of drug is the type of 'no-pain' cure-all that my fellow American like. It hides the current, annoying symptoms, while totally ignoring the overall systemic problems. For those who doubt this, here are other examples of simple, cure-alls for systemic problems:

• gun control to cure violence crime
• censoring of video games to cure school violence
• imprisonment of drug abusers

Re: What Goal

[Shotgun]

You, sir, are obviously and either an idiot or illiterate.

The things you rant against as if I support them were described as simple solutions to complex problems that do nothing to heal the underlying issues but only disquise the symptoms.

Meanwhile...

[Dancin_Santa]

If you're interested in losing fat, the simple answer is to stop putting on fat. The slightly longer answer is that your body adds fat when insulin is secreted by the pancreas, and to stop that secretion you can stop eating carbs (the trigger for insulin secretion).

See Sugar Busters, Atkins diet, or Protein Power at your local bookstore for more info.

Dancin Santa

Re:Meanwhile...

[the real jeezus]

The answer is to stop listening to major media outlets. When scientists announced links between high consumption of saturated fat and obesity, the media basically announced "Fat is Bad!". Now we have all these "low-fat" products, which contain engineered fats or weirdo carbs. The problem is that evolution is slow and the human body doesn't know what to do with these chemicals. Hang out for a few minutes in the snack food aisle of a grocery store and you'll see that the people who buy the low-fat stuff are quite obese.

Fad diets like Atkins, the Zone, and Sugar Busters have a fundamental problem--they can't be maintained for life. At some point, you have to stop the diet (with Atkins, it's when you are hospitalized with kidney failure, diabetes, or gout). You will immediately start to put on weight, possibly more than you took off while on the diet.

If you are overweight and trying to lose the extra weight, you need to modify your lifestyle. Follow an eating habit that you can maintain for the rest of your life, such as Dr. D'Adamo's Eat Right 4 Your Type, which is a meal plan designed around your genetic makeup.

What Dr. D'Adamo has found is that blood types emerged in different phases of human evolution, when humans lived in markedly different regions and ate indigineous foods. You may be unaware, but blood type is relevant outside of the bloodstream. Consumption of certain foods will cause immune system reactions, much like getting a transfusion from an imcompatible blood type! In America, we consume a large quantity of wheat, which most people have problems digesting. We also eat way too much dairy, another source of digestive troubles. And of course, we eat too much meat.

Give it an honest try. Chances are you will have to give up some of the foods you love. The benefits: you will reach the ideal weight for your frame, you will have a lessened risk of heart disease and cancer (the major killers in the West...), and you will have a higher level of physical comfort due to an efficient digestive tract.

If you love God, burn a church!

Re:Meanwhile...

[the real jeezus]

Thank you for your explanation. I'm not sure we have been discussing the same thing. Within the digestive tract, mucus[sic] is formed to encapsulate certain foods--probably to protect the human host from them. This slows down digestion significantly. As a result, a person who eats foods that produce excessive mucus may have up to a week's worth of food putrefying in his intestines! The hormones, biocides, and novel proteins (from GM foods) are in your body up to five times longer than they would be in a digestive tract not taxed my excess mucus (seven days vs. one and a half). I'm sure you are aware of the potential effects, as matter from the intestines is still passed into the bloodstream. A slow colon causes problems for the liver, gall bladder, and pancreas. The relationship between mucus production, the food ingested, and the individual's blood type has been clearly established by Dr. D'Adamo, the Naturopath who developed this methodology. He has over twenty years of quantitative/qualitative data to back up his assertions.

I can imagine that our ancient ancestors were probably quite body-aware, since they didn't spend all their time chasing after material possessions 24/7 as does modern man. The foods they chose to eat defined the foods we ate until the end of regionalism. Don't get me wrong--I'm all for ethnic diversity and mixing. I will say that we now have to stop blindly accepting outdated dining traditions and start listening to our bodies. Dr. D'Adamo's literature is an excellent guide for anyone wishing to reach stasis.

I admire your educational aspirations (I'm a grad student in another field), but must caution you about the dangers of indoctrination--you will be taught what the disease care industry wants you to "know". Blood type has everything to do with food.

If you love God, burn a church!

Re:Last time

[dstone]

Last time I got pumped full of grease, I put on 25 pounds. Then the doctor told me I was pregnant.

Ummm... I don't think it was grease you got pumped full of!

Sounds like

[HerringFlavoredFowl]

Sounds like wasted food to me...

Effects.
We produce extra food to not be used ...
This costs us labor and fuel that could be applied to other more usefull projects.
This requires us to use land and fisheries that would not be needed and could otherwise be used or left wild.
For every X hours of farm work, X2 people are injured and X3 people are killed...

I once saw an article that indicated ~27% of the food produced in the US is wasted, think about it, we use a third more land, a third more fuel, maime and kill a third more people than needed to keep ourselves fed.

This has nothing to do with tree hugging, and everything to do with wasted lives and opportunity. And yes I do not stockpile food to let it go bad.

My fridge is usually empty at the end of the week, and I have a policy of not letting food sit unused for more than two weeks... It's called JIT (Just in Time) for the home.

TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken

Re:Helps you think clearer too!

[the real jeezus]

Thank you for sharing. Please follow up about six months after you finish your modified Atkins Diet. I bet 10USD you will have gained back all of your weight. Better yet, let's wait about ten years, so you can describe in detail your colon cancer.

If you love God, burn a church!