But people still consume deep-fried unhealthy foods, and with the dawn of global food chains offering veg options, the problem amplifies.
Being veg alone does not guarantee health, consuming healthy food in moderation should be priority.
On the other hand, situation for meat eaters is worse. zero standards for meat quality, rat meat served in place of chicken. its a nightmare.
The sugary tea many consume, often multiple times a day, is also a problem — to be clear the sugar is the problem, not the tea. And then there’s Indian sweets and a national love of biscuits (en-GB not en-US) and fried snacks.
Wait, what?!
to increase profits, hotel owners, mix rat meat with chicken because its cheaper and impossible to detect.
All of them are probably fine in that they, at first, forced you to avoid all the processed crap. But eventually it became too profitable a segment to ignore for the food industry and suddenly it is easy to eat 5,000 calories a day of keto desserts.
Fats/protein take longer to process and are more satiating. That's not to say you couldn't consume 5,000 calories of them in one sitting, but you wouldn't be hungry again any time soon.
Whole carbs with the fiber intact can be quite satiating. Most of the problems people attribute to carbs really only pertain to refined carbs.
Edit since I can't reply to the reply:
>the idea that carbs = fat
That is the most stupid thing I have ever heard. No-one eating keto have ever said that or they would only eat candy.
And yes you can look it up but insulin level index is only like 1/10 of the story. The fact is still that if a vegan eat an apple the blood spike is higher than if someone in ketosis does. Higher spike = hungry faster, which is the whole point of keto. 1 calorie from non-fat != 1 calorie from fat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index
Beef is above even white pasta. Your blood glucose and insulin levels are two different things.
The healthiest populations in the world eat a lot of (untefined) carbs so the idea that carbs = fat is simple and appealing but also wrong.
If you eat a bowl of rice this likely will happen: Your blood sugar spikes, insulin is released. If after a while your blood sugar is still elevated, another dose of insulin is released which can push your blood sugar below baseline and to the point where "hunger" is triggered.
If you eat the caloric equivalent of that in the form of a steak, your blood sugar stays more or less constant.
How exactly this plays out depends on your insulin sensitivity. It may be different for highly insulin sensitive people, but empirically it is true for me and probably for most people, otherwise "sugar crash" wouldn't be a word.
Of course, you probably won't eat just a bowl of rice except for experiment, adding some fat and protein can greatly mitigate the effect.
> The healthiest populations in the world eat a lot of (untefined) carbs so the idea that carbs = fat is simple and appealing but also wrong.
The "healthiest" populations also are outliers in many other respects. I'm not making an argument that a high-fat diet is healthy or unhealthy. I'm saying that fat, protein and carbohydrates are quite different in how they are experienced from a dietary perspective, regardless of caloric equivalence.
Really what you need to do in order to avoid this effect is to add fat and protein into your meal.
As for what "most humans ate for most of history", it's not really clear-cut.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3001740/
Add some veggies to your meal.
https://i0.wp.com/www.gestationaldiabetes.co.uk/wp-content/u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index
Note that insulin level and blood sugar level are two independent things.
That Wikipedia article doesn't seem to cite very many studies. At least from my own perspective I can tell you that even after two hours of eating many kinds of meals your blood sugar can rise and you will need insulin to counteract that, either produced by the body itself or injected.
As an aside I would really like to know where the two hour postbrandial measuring for blood glucose levels etc. comes from as it feels completely arbitrary.
Maybe on paper, but it's not the same effect. If I eat a steak, my blood sugar doesn't go up and then way down, it stays constant. I'm not going to be hungry soon afterwards.
> Most of the problems people attribute to carbs really only pertain to refined carbs.
I did explicitly refer to "simple carbs" and "excess consumption".
Fat is 9 calories per gram. Fat is incredibly easy to over-consume by the very nature of it being more calorically dense and having very little fibre.
As for fibre, I disagree that it is satiating. It may make you feel "full", but that is not the same as being satiated. Your body doesn't tell you to "stop eating" just because your stomach is full of matter that it doesn't actually process. Blood sugar plays a role, as do many other things.
If it were any different, diets based around eating lots of high-volume/low-calorie food should "just work", but they just don't.
This is a great site full of Indian recipes: https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/
Thank you, good idea, maybe I should find some recipes boxes for Indian dishes :D
https://www.priyakrishna.me/indianish
It's her mother's recipes, living in the US. It breaks down Indian cooking into a literal flowchart, giving you a lot of options for creativity. It's not a "vegan cookbook"; it's just that the don't happen to use animal products. (There's even a couple of meat recipes, in fact. Oddly, no paneer, either, though adding pressed tofu to a lot of the recipes is a good way to stretch them and complement the flavors.)
It's also pretty heavy on the lentils, but you might find the Indian way of looking at lentils to be a lot more tasty (and a lot more variety) than "just a pot full of cooked beans". The keys are (a) pickles and chutneys, mixed and matched, and (b) the "chhonk", basically cooking spices in oil and adding it at the last minute. Between the two there's a ton of room for improvisation and different flavor profiles.
I find it annoying that the rise in veganism means there are far more bad choices I can make: big chain burgers, ready meals, cakes, cheesy pizzas are all now available to me.