[Closed] We "must get tough on obesity"

there was a wonderful nutrition researcher on R4 any answers who gave an excellent summary of the carbohydrate-obesity link. well worth a listen when it's available

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=any%20answers

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[i]there was a wonderful nutrition researcher on R4 any answers who gave an excellent summary of the carbohydrate-obesity link. well worth a listen when it's available[/i]

I heard that, but there was something about her slightly loud and assertive voice that reminded me a bit of twinset and pearls countryside alliance types who'd hector people about how much the fox really enjoys being chased and all this talk about not very nice is just plain silly nonsense.

Oh, Spotted this earlier 🙂

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Yeah, down with posh people...

Can someone then explain why Eskimo and other Inuit peoples who eat low carb, high fat, high protien diet are all fat with much shorter lifespans than even their obese neighbours in North America?

I'm not yet sold on the carb/obesity link, more on the too much avaialble carbs in the west link personally, especially given that carbs form 90% of the African diet yet they are not often fat due to lack of availability of food.

Yeah, down with posh people...

careful now.

No one is suggesting a low carb diet, at least I'm not. I'm suggesting a low sugar and high GI-highly processed carb diet. Modern Inuit are quite sedentary and also have a largely western diet now.

@dangerousbeans because the thin ones die of the cold historically? To be fair most are more overweight than obese.

Having a few people a bit overweight is not a problem, that's natural variance to some extent and it of course possible to overweight and fit and healthy. Obesity is a different matter and it's simply too much shit food.

But even prior to the western diet they were dying much earlier, usually from cancers or circulatory diseases, once environmental deaths were accounted for. Lung cancer especially was a problem, it's theorised that this was a result of indoor fires with poor ventilation.

The woman on the radio seemed very anti-carb which was why I mentioned it, I still feel that it's the availability of refined carbs which causes us the most problems in the developed world.

The Brick - I'm overweight and fit, honest.

OK then, I used to be fit.

i think the first guy on R4 had it.

plate manufacturers are to blame!!!

who eat low carb, high fat, high protien diet

is that true?