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Most days, I enjoy sifting through the latest research into weight loss, health, fitness, etc…
But not today.
Today I read a study that dooms Mr. Balloon Belly here to a lifetime of popping diet pills and undergoing gastric bypass surgery.
The Research
In this study, researchers used an MRI machine to determine each participant’s level of belly and liver fat along with a blood test to determine insulin sensitivity.
Then, they put all 243 of the test subjects on a nine month lifestyle intervention program which reduced fat intake to a maximum of 30 percent of total calories (including less than 10 percent in the form of saturated fat) and had them engage in moderate physical activity such as walking for at least three hours a week.
Eat less (fat) & move more….classic.
The Results
The patients who started with the most belly fat & were the most insulin insensitive and who were most at risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes did the worst on this lifestyle intervention program.
“The participants who improved their health status as a result of diet and exercise started out with lower baseline levels of abdominal and liver fat.”
Their Conclusion
The researchers concluded that patients with a high level of belly fat & a high level of insulin insensitivity were unlikely to ever be successful at improving their situation with lifestyle modification.
Ever.
Ergo…to lose weight, they would need the help of pharmaceuticals and/or weight loss surgery.
My Conclusion
The lifestyle modification plan used in this experiment is crap.
If you want to improve insulin sensitivity, you don’t modify fat intake…you modify carbohydrate intake.
- Carbs = sugar
- Too much sugar = insulin insensitivity
- Insulin insensitivity = belly & liver fat
- Insulin insensitivity = type 2 diabetes
So, before the medical community tells Mr. Balloon Belly that he is doomed to a life of gastric bypass and anal leakage, perhaps they should retire their old school food pyramids and learn something from us non-experts.
Thus endeth the rant…thanks for listening.
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Every year, the U.S. federal government subsidizes America’s junk food habit with bazillions of dollars in tax breaks & subsidies.
But today, in a shocking turn of events, the USDA has announced the creation of a new “healthy eating” program.
Or, in other words… The U.S. government is subsidizing healthy food.
The $20 million program is being tested in Hampden County, Mass. and is designed to encourage healthy eating among low income families.
Specifically, The Healthy Incentives Pilot will enroll 7,500 randomly selected SNAP (aka Food Stamps) households to receive the HIP incentives.
For every dollar that participants spend on fruits and vegetables using their SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, 30 cents will be added to their benefit balance – thus cutting the cost of fruits and vegetables by almost one-third.
And if this Dutch research is correct, this cost cutting measure will result in the higher consumption of fruits & vegetables.
And to make things even better, this program will operate in tandem with the Food Bank Farm program already being sponsored by the Food bank of Western Mass. (The FB Farm program promotes local food consumption)
Conclusion
This program seems pretty great to me.
- It reduces the cost of fruits & vegetables
- It increases the consumption of fruits & vegetables
- It increases the consumption of local fruits & vegetables
The only drawback seems to be the $20 million.
Maybe the USDA should raise the cash by slashing some of the current USDA junk food subsidies.
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