Re:Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity
by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:44PM
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Fat is more calorically dense than sugar, and your examples are all low in fat as well - vegetables and fruits have more carbs than either protein or fats - and the high calorie examples (ie. Avacado) of those categories are high in fat. Fish has few fats and no sugars. The most calorific cuts of meat aren't that way because they are sugary, it's because they are fatty. It's just that fats lead to satiety quicker than carbs, but I'll bet if you ate pork belly for every meal you'd find that you could and would get fat on that.
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Re:Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity
by bena on Thursday September 26, 2019 @09:16AM
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I didn't say they excluded all major source. I said a major source.
Yes, paleo and keto (I think) don't exclude fat, but they are excluding a major source of calories. Because we do need some fat in our diet or else we go into rabbit starvation.
There's nothing really in bread or refined sugar that we need that we aren't getting from somewhere else.