Well, this sounds like bullshit to me.

Why are we reporting on this?

The Guardian:

Children who are susceptible to type 1 diabetes and eat bananas, oats and yoghurt are more likely to contract the disease, while consuming strawberries and blueberries lowers the risk, research has found.

Wheat also emerged from the study as a risk factor for the autoimmune form of diabetes, while vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage have a protective effect.

Well, that’s true.

Wheat is poison.

But no one will listen to that. People are fat and retarded, which is one reason why billions must die.

The professor behind the findings said the fact that some fruits contain traces of pesticides may explain why some of them heighten, but others cut, the risk of type 1 diabetes.

Suvi Virtanen and colleagues at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare analysed the diet of 5,674 Finnish children who were genetically susceptible to the disease, following them from birth to the age of six. Ninety-four of the children had developed type 1 diabetes by that age and another 206 had developed islet autoimmunity, which meant they were at much higher risk of getting it.

Most “yoghurts” are poison.

The researchers analysed 34 different food groups and found that the more fruits such as bananas, oats or rye children ate, the greater their risk of getting the disease.

That finding may perplex parents because, Virtanen added, “many of the foods that we found to be associated with increased risk of type 1 diabetes and the disease process are considered part of a healthy diet”.

However, in contrast, eating strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackcurrants and other berries seemed to protect children from the condition. The more they ate, the lower their risk.

Yeah, hey – people should eat real food instead of processed poison.

Very true.

How animal protein worsens insulin resistance. https://t.co/MM3WHQ3Q2v pic.twitter.com/HyqIjPnxMU

— Michael Greger, M.D. (@nutrition_facts) March 19, 2023

That tweet aged horribly. Vegan doctors want people to believe that the problem is animal foods.

Tricking your brain into thinking that you’re eating something sweet appears to have unintended consequences.

The Hour:

A study published in the journal Cell Metabolism by a group of Yale researchers found that the consumption of the common artificial sweetener sucralose (which is found in Splenda, Zerocal, Sukrana, SucraPlus and other brands) in combination with carbohydrates can swiftly turn a healthy person into one with high blood sugar.

From whole grain English muffins to reduced-sugar ketchup, sucralose is found in thousands of baked goods, condiments, syrups and other consumer packaged goods – almost all of them containing carbs.

The finding, which researchers noted has yet to be replicated in other studies, raises new questions about the use of artificial sweeteners and their effects on weight gain and overall health.

In the Yale study, researchers took 60 healthy-weight individuals and separated them into three groups: A group that consumed a regular-size beverage containing the equivalent of two packets of sucralose sweetener, a second group that consumed a beverage sweetened with table sugar at the equivalent sweetness, and a third control group that had a beverage with the artificial sweetener as well as a carbohydrate called maltodextrin.

The molecules of maltodextrin don’t bind to taste receptors in the mouth and are impossible to detect. While the sensation of the third group’s beverage was identical to the sucralose-only group, only this group exhibited significant adverse health effects.

The artificial sweetener by itself seemed to be fine, the researchers discovered, but that changed when combined with a carbohydrate. Seven beverages over two weeks and the previously healthy people in this group became glucose intolerant, a metabolic condition that results in elevated blood glucose levels and puts people at an increased risk for diabetes.

The finding follows a study in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine last year that found that consumption of two or more glasses of artificially sweetened soft drinks a day increased deaths from circulatory diseases. And a 2008 study by scientists at Purdue University showed that artificial sweeteners alone could result in higher blood pressure, weight gain, and increased risk of diabetes, stroke and heart disease in rats.

Ingesting mystery chemicals because they trick your mind into thinking you’re tasting something sweet is a bad idea on many different levels.

This situation where people want to eat “diet” stuff full of chemicals, hoping to lose fat or to prevent fat gain, is only possible in a sick culture of overabundance and overexcitement that has turned food into addictive products.

Pictured: drugs.

Hunger has been mixed with anxiety.

People eat and eat and eat and barely get any meaningful nutrition, then they look forward to the next meal that will hyper-stimulate their taste buds.

Food products work like drugs.

People build tolerance to the level of taste-excitement they provide, and then they enter a vicious cycle of looking for the next great flavor, fueled by their need for actual nutrients.

Pictured: a junkie.

We should be eating the food that people from more than a hundred years ago would have recognized as foods.

Real food.

I’ve told every single bread shill from the very beginning: potatoes are the perfect carb.

Daily Mail:

Potato puree is an ideal ‘race fuel’ for athletes and can boost performance just as much as trendy carbohydrate gels, scientists claim.

Trained cyclists given 2.1oz (60g) of carbohydrate from potato every hour finished a race six minutes faster than those who were sipping just water.

And researchers found the puree worked just as well as sugar-laden and expensive carb gel pouches, which are loved by athletes

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Lead researcher Professor Nicholas Burd said: ‘Research has shown that ingesting concentrated carbohydrate gels during prolonged exercise promotes carbohydrate availability during exercise and improves exercise performance.

‘Our study aim was to expand and diversify race-fueling options for athletes and offset flavor fatigue.’

During intense exercise, the body craves carbohydrate fuel because it is the most efficient energy transfer to fatigued muscles, compared to protein and fat.

Carbohydrate gels, which come in singular pouches, are formulated to deliver a shot of carbohydrate while on the move to substitute a snack.

The researchers said: ‘Potatoes are a promising alternative for athletes because they represent a cost-effective, nutrient-dense and whole-food source of carbohydrates.

‘Furthermore, they serve as a savory race fuel option when compared (with) the high sweetness of (carbohydrate) gels.’

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The potato puree was made by blending cooked, peeled potatoes with water and salt.

Professor Burd said: ‘Both groups saw a significant boost in performance that those consuming only water did not achieve.

‘We found no differences between the performance of cyclists who got their carbohydrates by ingesting potatoes or gels at recommended amounts of about 60g per hour during the experiments.’

The potato puree and carbohydrate gel groups cycled significantly faster than the water group, taking 33 minutes compared to 39 minutes to complete.

The researchers found those given the potato puree and carbohydrate gels had higher glucose concentrations in their blood, which showed their body was sustaining blood sugar levels.

Potatoes created the greatest race on earth: the Potato Nigger race.

These are the only sonsofbitches who are going to set off car bombs in current year.

What are the bread-riddled Germans doing then, eh?

OH YEAH THAT’S RIGHT I FORGOT – THEIR GAMING STREAMS ARE AWESOME.

I GUESS I SHOULD EAT MORE BREAD AND IT WILL MAKE ME BETTER AT FORTNITE LIKE THE GERMANS.

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On Saturday, we published an article about a Chinese study on low-carb diets that claims that over the course of 20 years, people on low-carb diets develop heart problems.

Although I agree with the general sentiment, we should not have published this article because it confuses some of the issues, and for that I apologize. I haven’t read the actual study, but the Daily Mail article on it that we quoted acts as though grains are good, which they are not, and it also includes the paleo diet with the keto diet as a “low carb diet.”

I will herein go over the real deal with carbs and keto and paleo and whatnot.

The Basic Thing Here

Remaining on a restriction diet long term is always going to cause problems. Being on that kind of diet short term almost certainly will not. The study was on people who eat like this long term.

The basic reality is that if you are fat, the biggest risk to your health is the fact that you are fat. And anything you do to correct that situation is worth it, regardless of whatever health risks may be involved. And carb management is clearly key to managing weight. One thing that fad diets got right over the last decade is that managing carbs is six million times smarter than managing total caloric intake if you are overweight and trying to lose weight.

The point is, you shouldn’t be overweight. If you are overweight, you should quickly correct that situation.

Fixing Fat

The first step in that process is to cut out processed foods.

Those include:

• Bread
• Pasta
• Cereals
• Noodles
• Anything that contains processed sugar
• Basically anything that comes in a box

You should also cut beans, because they are crap.

You want your carbs to come from:

• Starchy vegetables (including potatoes and tubers)
• White rice
• Fruits

You can simply eat as much as you feel you need to eat when making this switch, and making the switch from processed foods to whole foods will cause you to lose weight without adjusting your carb intake.

Furthermore, if you’re getting all of your carbs from the above approved sources, you’re probably going to only be eating as many as you need, because those foods are not addictive in the way that grains and cereals are addictive.

However, if a month after making the switch to only clean carbs you aren’t losing weight like you want to (this will also depend on your exercise routine), then you can slowly start to regulate your carb intake. Generally, this will mean only eating meat and vegetables on certain days, and so not really eating any carbs at all. You don’t want to cut out carbs completely, ever, because that can cause all kinds of problems, including actually slowing your metabolism and thus slowing weight loss. As a rule, if you are doing a regular exercise routine, you can cut the starchy carbs on the days you do not go to the gym.

Eventually, the goal should be something around a 33/33/33 protein/fat/carb intake, if you are an active person. If you are less active, you can go down to around 40/40/20. The keto diet promotes 65/25/10, which is completely unsustainable in the long term.

Low carbs means low energy. It also means significantly lowered brain function.

The bottom line is that what is currently being called the “keto diet” is a way for women who are aging and too lazy to work out to keep from getting fat. It is effectively an alternate form of the anorexic diet.

Just look at this list of celebrities promoting the keto diet. It is all aging women who are not the athletic sort. They add Lebron James, but say he only did it for two months as a fat-cutting measure. And I guarantee, the two months he did it were in the off-season.

Gwyneth Paltrow has been the main celebrity promoter of keto.

She is 46, and although I’ve found her attractive, she has always done the “skinny chic” look (which I don’t usually find attractive). It is obvious by looking at her that she has never been in a gym.

She always did the Calvin Klein cigarette diet look when she was young.

Bad posture, bone nubs sticking out, all of it.

This is a very different look than the healthier models, who tend to be associated with a Victoria’s Secret look, who are much more athletic.

Look at the muscles in Miranda Kerr’s legs.

You’re never going to hear about her being on a keto diet, because she clearly has a healthy lifestyle.

Fat Producing Energy?

The author of Saturday’s article, Pomidor Quixote (I think that’s how it’s spelled) has been writing about the carnivore diet and in particular, Mikhaila Peterson’s promotion of it. This is a diet that consists only of meat, and is more or less completely insane, especially if done long term. I agree with those articles. And I didn’t even disagree with what he wrote on the last one, I simply took issue with the fact that the source talked about grains and included paleo with keto.

The core concept of keto, or the insaner version of it, carnivore, is that fat produces energy. And fat does produce energy. But the body does this as an emergency measure, when carbs are not available, or when no food at all is available, at which point your body starts metabolizing fat stores on your body.

This is effectively a starvation situation. And if you are fat, and a diet with clean carbs and a good exercise program is not fixing that, then okay, you may want to temporarily engage this. But understand it is an extreme measure and putting a heavy toll on your body.

Paleo is Not a Low Carb Diet

The paleo diet is not low carb. Paleo doesn’t even address the issue of macro nutrients, and simply deals with cutting out foods that were not available to people in the Paleolithic era. In practice, it also includes foods which are more or less similar to foods available in the Paleolithic era, so it may include fruits or vegetables that come from tropical areas that Europeans did not have access to in the Paleolithic era. Fruits, root vegetables and tubers were available in the Paleolithic era in Europe.

The low-carb paleo advocates will say that in the winter, the only thing available was meat. I’m not sure that this was actually true, given that the process of storing food was to bury it under snow, which could have worked for vegetables as well as meat. But it is probably largely true that they were more likely to be primarily sustained by meat during the winter time. However, they were also likely to be sleeping up to 14 hours a day and not moving around very much.

Conclusion

I have tried all of this stuff, and technique has been progressing over the last decade rapidly. With the internet and the general influx of knowledge, it was figured out definitively that the standard American diet was horrible, so people began experimenting.

What I have come to and what most people have come to (or are coming to – I’m a little bit ahead of the curve) with regards to these issues is that low carb and no carb do not maximize the potential of a healthy individual. It unnecessarily reduces energy levels and it certainly does not help with strength training.

If you’re fat, do whatever you have to do to get fit.

But the only reason to stay on an extreme low carb diet is if you are a lazy woman, or if you are going for the “bodybuilder who unfortunately developed cancer” look of AthleanX.

I have written about why I do not think the “lean” look is healthy or even attractive., and how it is basically impossible to maintain the muscle mass of AthleanX without living in a gym like he does. And I have personally been to extremely low body fat as well. I did not feel as though I was maximizing my potential, and this has been the experience of everyone I’ve ever known who’s done it. The only people I’ve ever met who maintain that have extreme insecurity and body dysmorphia.

The goal of everything you do always has to be overall health and fitness. That is the only diet or exercise goal that matters.

Physical health is always the first step of life, and should be the first goal of life. Anyone who improves their physical health is going to feel better emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, but no person has ever improved their physical health by focusing on any other part of themselves. So to be the best man you can be, you must make health your first priority.