American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults

Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by JacobJans on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:49AM (#17293194)

I don't know what you've tried, in terms of home preparation of food. One strategy is to switch to two meals a day, plus one snack. Another is to focus on high-volume, low calorie density foods, such as vegetables and beans, while limiting high-calorie dense foods such as bread, cheese, and meat. This allows you to feel full from fewer calories. Another way to think about this is to dramatically increase your fiber intake (and not just from hard fruits, but from a variety of sources). For example, if you were to make a pasta dish, use half the regular amount of pasta, and greatly increase the amount of veggies in it, so the pasta is just a small component of the dish.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by philbarr on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:41AM (#17293670)

I watched this the other day which was more informative than I'd imagined [0].

Main take away for me was to eat fibre rich foods - so instead of potatoes eat squash and celariac, instead of rice eat bulgar wheat, and so on.

[0] The Truth About Carbs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5y6c0

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:01AM (#17293870)

I've been fighting my body for the better part of a decade now, trust me when I say that I've probably tried every piece of advice ever parrotted on the internet. For instance the high-volume low-calorie high-fiber plan ultimately just made me extremely bloated and often constipated.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by JacobJans on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:11AM (#17293990)

The bloating is caused by the production of gas by the bacteria in your gut. If you add a lot of fiber at once, the bacteria will overpopulate, and produce too much gas, causing bloating/distension. One way to avoid this is to gradually increase the amount of fiber, so your microbiome will adjust slowly, allowing you to avoid the excess gas/bloating. Not sure what to say about the constipation, though it could be a similar issue.

These things are not simple, are they?

One strategy is to focus on the healthy veggies that your genetic ancestors likely ate; your body is more likely to be adapted to those foods.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:27PM (#17295573)

I didn't ask for your advice and I'm not a moron so I know how to use google just as well as you do.

This is the shit I'm talking about. If you have difficult losing and maintaining weight people crawl out of the woodwork to parrot bullshit advice they got from some clickbait article as though knowledge isn't the easiest part of the process. People don't have difficulty with their weight because they lack knowledge, people have difficulty with their weight because suffering sucks and the human body doesn't like having to eat itself.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by woodandsteel on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @07:49PM (#17308046)

The high-volume low fat high-fiber plan works for most people. Apparently there is something different about your body.

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