You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating

Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "Two prominent nutrition experts have put forth the theory that the current obesity epidemic is, in large part, the result of processed foods tricking our appetite control mechanisms. They argue that evolution has given humans a delicately balanced system that balances appetite with metabolic needs, and that processed foods trick that system by making foods high in fats and carbohydrates have the gustatory qualities of proteins. As the researchers put it, 'Many people eat far too much fat and carbohydrate in their attempt to consume enough protein.'"

Comments

Re:Oh well

[Cenan]

The obvious solution is for OP to just stop eating. It can't be that hard, millions of people starve to death of their own free will every year.

Re:this is fucking bullshit

[gl4ss]

*I don't think you understand what processed food is. It's not the same thing as food that's naturally high in fat.*

and I'm saying that it being processed or not doesn't enter the equation. look man, you can say it all day that natural lard is like eco-mega-good for you but really it's not. and the lard eaters get fat the same as westerners. what I'm saying that special tricks are unnecessary. only thing you need for people to get fat is for them to have enough money to buy all the food they want - no need for evil food mega corps to do any tricks(except that that mega industry started the trick of selling healthier food, in a decades going ongoing process. people who aren't obese - and even most obese people in the west! - are healthier than ever - and they didn't die of malnutrion as a kid, like a staggering percentage of farm kids did before the evil food industry started putting additives in food...).

Re: lol

[ultranova]

Once I realized that "willpower" is a metabolic state, not moral success or a moral failing, and I learned how to manipulate that metabolic state, I lost 150 lbs.

But if being fat is not evidence of a moral failing, how will I justify looking down on fatsos? And if I can't, then who will I hate?

How do you expect us to feel good about a pecking order if we can't condemn those beneath us as inherently inferior?