Fats Don't Make Us Fat, Carbs Do!

From Fast Company (link).  This is truly, mindbogglingly revolutionary!  Really.  What it means is that the 'Olympic Ski Team Diet,' first popularized back in the 70's, was key to not just gradually becoming a more healthy eater, but also to dropping weight without exercise:

Eat as much meat as you want (yes, even fried chicken!), plus vegetables slathered in butter, milk and cheese, but minimize your intake of carbs like pasta, breads and cereal; starch like rice, flour, potatoes and corn; and sugar. 

In other words, fried foods/fat is not the problem, the breaded/flour coatings and potatoes are!  Cut down on the fries and KFC-style coatings and eat as much spicy roast or deep-fried chicken as you want.  

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Key to what scientists have learned since the 70's is DO NOT completely cut out carbs, starch and sugar as your body 'thinks' it is being starved of those 'easy-to-digest' calories and starts 'hoarding' what little energy it's getting from these sources, just cut back to a minimal portion of these substances. 

Research into how the human body functions has also proven that 'diets' aren't the way to lose weight permanently, changing eating habits are the way to do it.  What the high protein, fat and fibre, low empty-calorie program offers, however, is the chance to prove to yourself, by sticking to it stringently for just a couple of weeks, that the weight can actually come off without exercise and while eating to satiation at every mealtime!  Trying a 2 week program will prove that sticking to this new selection of proportions will work over the long run.

Including exercise in any obese person's weight loss regimen is completely self-defeating, in my view. 

Doing so is the equivalent of strapping one of those big water-cooler jugs filled to the brim onto an athletic person's back (or belly) and then getting them to do their normal work-out routine.  They'd quit after 2 minutes because it's just too strenuous.  In my opinion, anyone who is obese (not just a bit over-weight) should invest all their energy into changing their eating habits with high protein, high fat and low empty-calories, NOT burning calories.

More recent research has proven that any moderate exercise OVER 30 minutes per day (even as low as 3 x 10 minute walks around the block or shopping mall) does not improve wellness or longevity, but anything LESS than 30 minutes leads to illness and early death (link).

On a related note, if your workouts take up too much of your time, or hurt too much, you won't keep them up!  Here are my thoughts on how to keep motivated: "How to Workout for the Rest of Your LONGER Life! (link)"

If you liked this, you might like my post about how the 'free economy' is gradually killing everyone with obesity (link).