Re:A flawed paradigm has derailed the science of obesity
by BizarroLand on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:02PM
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What I took away from the article is that the standard diet is unhealthy, and that in some people it will cause their insulin production to spike, causing them to create more fat than a person who is not similarly affected.
This then causes a snowball effect as their body craves food, energy, and nutrients that their body fat is effectively hijacking and preventing from getting where it needs to go, so the body sends more hunger signals so that enough food to satisfy you is consumed.
As the fat increases, so too does the hunger, as fat cells also require maintenance calories.
If this is true, (and it seems somewhat more plausible to me than just, "fat people are gut-stuffing pigs with no self control") then the solution to both the obesity crisis and the issue of over-eating is to find systems that shut down that cycle by either chemically manipulating the brain to not respond to the starvation signals caused by the fat cells, (probably effective but not healthy) or to modulate the diet so that the fat cells become the cells that have to beg for calories as the healthy cells get fed first somehow.
Low-carb diets might be a first step to that second path as without carbohydrates to trigger insulin the fat cells will have a harder time taking in sugar. Mayhaps in the future we will learn more about the process and find a pill to make the insulin-carb-fat pathway from working as well as it does.
This then causes a snowball effect as their body craves food, energy, and nutrients that their body fat is effectively hijacking and preventing from getting where it needs to go, so the body sends more hunger signals so that enough food to satisfy you is consumed.
As the fat increases, so too does the hunger, as fat cells also require maintenance calories.
If this is true, (and it seems somewhat more plausible to me than just, "fat people are gut-stuffing pigs with no self control") then the solution to both the obesity crisis and the issue of over-eating is to find systems that shut down that cycle by either chemically manipulating the brain to not respond to the starvation signals caused by the fat cells, (probably effective but not healthy) or to modulate the diet so that the fat cells become the cells that have to beg for calories as the healthy cells get fed first somehow.
Low-carb diets might be a first step to that second path as without carbohydrates to trigger insulin the fat cells will have a harder time taking in sugar. Mayhaps in the future we will learn more about the process and find a pill to make the insulin-carb-fat pathway from working as well as it does.