[quote]goose27 wrote:
[quote]throws56 wrote:
[quote]MAF14 wrote:
[quote]throws56 wrote:
The only thing is I do totally agree with him on the idea of calories not counting, or exercise having little effect on one’s body composition. [/quote]
do or dont?[/quote]
Cuse me, I dont agree with him completely. I think you can get away with eating my fat from calories then you could from carbs due to not experiencing the insulin spike from the fat, but I dont think you can huge amounts and not gain weight, which seems to be what he’s implying. Bascially, to me, it seems he believes the “calorie in, calorie out” idea is totally bogus. To a degree I agree, but just not to the extent that he does.[/quote]
In Good Calories, Bad Calories Taubes takes apart not only the “healthy grain, bad fat” myth, but “calories in/out”, “fat=heart disease”, “fiber matters”, etc…
For calories in vs calories out, he cites several studies spanning the last 150 years where weight loss was achieved only by cutting carbs out of the diet. No restriction at all on calories, and even in cases of 3000-4000 calories a day people continued to lose weight in the absence of a carbohydrate diet.
The reason, as he explains it, is that insulin is the only hormone that makes your body store fat. Without carbs giving your body a reason to produce insulin, you don’t store what you eat.
People believe that your body fuels itself from your food, then uses fat stores to make up a deficit. He explicitly states that your fat stores are more dynamic than that. You actually fuel your body only with your fat stores, then hunger encourages you to replenish those stores with what you eat.
He speaks nothing about physique in anything I’ve read so far. When he says exercise is not necessary, it’s in regards to fat loss and heart health. Of course if you burn more calories you will lose weight faster, but he says that it makes a much smaller difference than if you were to just improve your diet instead of outworking a crappy diet.[/quote]
Well, now that I’ve read the book, its a mix of good facts with sensationalist nonsense to drive sales.
Does insulin make people store fat? To an extent yes.
But shit, it’s also the most anabolic hormone known to Man.
Some of the people on here are eating a grand total of 60-80g carbs a day. Congratulations, you probably wouldn’t gain a single pound of fat on that diet. Not a single pound of muscle either, but hey, sick abzzzzzz is the be all and end all right? Abzzzzzzzz…