It’s not too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
Hunger is what drives eating.
If you want to know what causes overeating then you need to look into what drives hunger.
Are we agreed so far?
We know that blood sugar (glucose) drives insulin, and that insulin inhibits lectin (the hormone of satiety). We also know that insulin switches off fat burning and commands the body to store fat.
We also know that sucrose is comprised of fructose and glucose. It is hard for the body to use fructose and so when consumed it is immediately converted to liver fat, whilst also suppressing lectin.
We also know that refined carbs start to be converted into sugars in the mouth and are broken down completely before they leave the stomach. Refined carbs are equivalent to sugar.
Excess sugar has other consequences. Insulin acts to store the sugar in the tissues, as excess blood sugar is a toxin especially to blood vessels. Eventually the tissues get overloaded with sugar and reject more by building insulin resistance. This has the effect of requiring the body to pump out more insulin to reduce blood sugar. Meanwhile excess blood sugar attaches itself to haemoglobin, what we call A1C, an excess number of which indicated first pre-diebetes then Type2 diabetes.
All that hunger and fat storage leads to overeating and obesity.
Additionally sugars stimulate the brain’s reward system causing cravings.
This is the key mechanism.
Do you have any others to suggest?
I do not but neither do I think that any cultivar is what we are evolved to eat. By definition.
Agriculture has only been a part of our experience for between 1000-10000 years.
In northern Europe we only started cultivating about 6000 years ago. That is only 200 generations. No time for significant adaptation. What followed from its inception is a drop in life expectancy.
Other causal factors may and might exist, as ‘triggers’ to also overstimulating appetite and cravings.
Agreed… best to eat what works for you, and if that means ‘eggs, meat, cheese, two veg, and citrus’ …as in my case, then so be it.
At my local mini-mart, I spot mainly fresh produce, meat and fish, alcohol, and only the odd naughty treat, in other shoppers’ baskets. And I noticed that near-all the many patisseries -at my end of the high-street- have recently shut down, but the Udderlicious and savoury bakeries are still open for business.
I’m glad the consumer has started voting with their pocket, in eating right.
.
[/quote]
But these triggers relate back to sugar and the stimulation of the limbic/reward system.
Other food tuffs don’t do that.
Even of you were encouraged by advertising to crave a nice juicy ribeye; a steak is satiating, because of the high fat and protein content.
Sugar and the carbs from which they are derived are specifically designed by natural selection to cause hunger and fat storage simply because sweetness is a signal that winter is coming.
The other triggers of cravings are protein and fat, so not just sugar… though sugars are the most easiest to convert into fat stores, hence their addictive lure and nature.
…because it is the easiest food group to sustain the body through a harsh Winter… something that most moderns attempt to override or limit.
I don’t mean starchy carbs, but the beneficial digestible species of plant matter… the vitamins minerals and fibre they contain also being beneficial for maximal satiation… along with the fats and protein from meat and dairy.
Control sugar/carb intake, control the problem…
A gym-goer or athlete cannot build a physique on fat, for energy alone… it’s all about One’s end goal, I’d say.
“Because fat metabolism requires more chemical reactions in cells than metabolizing carbs does, it takes longer to produce the samey amount of energy, meaning people who switch to burning fat can only exercise at a lower intensity compared to those who are burning carbs. 11 Aug 2016” livescience.com/55732-do-fa … -work.html
…bad news for me ^^^ as not an optimal metabolic-state to weight-train or work-out in, is it…
…nothing a pre-workout coffee and orange can’t solve… i.e., fuelling up beforehand.
Well tell that to a longtime weight-trainer, why don’t ya. ; )
“When the body doesn’t have enough carbohydrates, it does increase its breakdown of fat, according to a 2015 study in the journal Metabolism Clinical and Experimental. In that study, ultra-endurance marathoners who were on an extremely low-carb diet could burn fat at twice the rate of those who were on a high-carb diet.”
…good news for you ^^^ …and me, somewhat.
“Still, low-carb, high-fat diets almost always lead to lower performance, according to more than a dozen studies conducted from 1960s to the 2000s.”
I tend to eat (keto/paleo-friendly) carbs on a ‘need to’ basis… so either if my energy is flagging really badly, or if needed for pre or post workout energy.
I never bought into the 5[7]-a-day recommendation [scam] …people were lucky if they even got through 1-a-day, let alone 2 or more. lol
Of course it was only ever about profit… not caring.
Now it’s up to 10-a-day… who can get through all that >>> what a portion size looks like: goodto.com/wellbeing/health … pics-63967 Who on Earth can get through 10 portions of any of those ^^^ every single day?
[b]Is 5 a day enough?
[i]We’ve been told to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day for as long as we can remember. It’s something we’ve all been brought up with, but now it seems this number might be a little on the low side. We might have all heard the rumours of the 5 a day increasing to 7 a day but what about even higher?
Amanda Callenberg, nutritionist at YourZooki (opens in new tab) agrees. She says we really should be aiming more than this.
In fact, she reckons we should go for 7 portions of vegetables and 3 portions of fruit per day. That’s 10 portions overall!
Why so many?
‘The quality of produce we get today is quite poor and depleted of vital nutrients, so we need to be consuming a much higher amount of vegetables and fruit to ensure we are meeting our daily nutrient needs. We also need to think about fibre when we think about health. Fibre is abundant in plants and it has been shown that people who eat a fibre rich diet, and those who include 8 portions or more of vegetables and fruit have a much lower risk of suffering from many chronic diseases.’
Don’t think this is achievable? It’s actually far simpler than you think with our simple guide. There’s also plenty of other surprising foods which count towards your 5 a day![/i][/b]
I posted two things
One claim that a bowl of grapes a day will make you live 5 years longer, from a study funded by grape producers.
And a response from a doctor who looked at the research in detail from where the so-called “journalists” made the claim.
This was not about five a day.
I thought you might like it.
Ok …though growers recommending their produce as ‘vital’ probably inspired the great 5-a-day campaign… buy land, plant a variety of produce, tout them all as the great saviour of health and humanity, pay Social-Media influencers to tout the campaign for you, then watch the cash roll in.
Hmmm… I’ve just realised that there’s next-to-no TV food advertisements… when did that happen? About time though… adverts should be aids to optimal living, not aids to lining manufacturers’ pockets with fat profits of billions, whilst the consumer struggles with health issues and subsisting.
_
This burger would send me to the nearest hospital, if I ever ate one…
the bun, the plant-based patty, the additives and flavourings… all
being inconducive to an optimal health, and not a sustainable one.
…you weren’t the only one… if the comments section is anything to go by.
…still surprised that B.K. Austria implemented this though -the home of the schnitzel and other such meaty dishes- but that restaurant may well be a franchise and so not representative of the B.K. chain in general. Nope it ain’t… B.K. is touting vegan options as the ‘regular’ option in all its joints, unless you specifically ask for the meat-based option, you’ll get the soy-based option… not that the vegan option is any more healthier/less calorific than the original ‘regular’, so why soy over meat?
I was browsing through a bookshop this morning and saw the title “How to go Plant Based”. It’s an indication that now you do not even have to justify the idea of going plant based - it is just assumed we must.
It’s reached the level of a fad, a marketing ploy to attract “life-style choice” type thinking.
Buy Doritos and Oreos!! They are Vegan!! The fact that BK has done this asserts that its a no brainer. Its more like a desperate attempt to make fast food look greener, and healthier.
It’s like McDonalds patting themselves on the back for converting their spend frying oil into biofuel for their lorries. The actual truth is that they are slowing poisoning the populace with vegetable oils.
_ Why take a perfectly good cheese and ruin it with cheap flavour-enhancing msg salt? …well that’s only what Le Rustique has gone and done… the recession got to them, for them to want to maintain last year’s profit margin by changing to a cheaper salt.
Shortly after eating a very small amount in my eggs this morning, I looked and felt awful… I panicked, then thought… I web-searched ‘lymphatic drainage’, then did it… my body and mind, now recovered, from the allergic reaction… the cheese, in the [recycling] bin.
The cheese was much saltier than before… I knew I should have left it well alone, from then/that realisation. Way to go Le Rustique, on how to ruin a once-good product.
