And from what you've posted in the thread, I gather you believe nutrition and weight gain or loss can be explained in the micro sense by individual things like insulin. Most of what I know about sugar, simple carbs in general, and insulin is what I learned from the just-OK book http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Blues-William-Dufty/dp/044634312...
But most of what I've learned about weight gain/loss and nutrition I've learned from books and research that look at the subject from a macro level.
The summation of everything I've read on the subject -- and I read a lot through my year long experience of losing weigh and changing almost entirely how I thought about food -- and my own experiences make me believe firmly that this is primarily an I/O issue.
And as much as you say "the science is settled and I am right" it's contradicted by a lot of smart people who study this and admit essentially 'the science of nutrition is immature and in many times conclusions are contradictory.' The most recent time I heard that was just last week in the same Pollan NPR interview I mentioned elsewhere. (Though i think this was a re-broadcast, not sure the original broadcast date)
To be clear, here's my take:
1. Primarily an I/O issue. Everything else is a distant 2nd place.
2. How much of the equation is I/O? I don't know. 75%? 50%? It's not the whole story, though, I don't think. Our bodies are adaptive and complex.
3. There are no silver bullets and anybody peddling one is probably wrong (not to say they are entirely without merit.)
4. Nutrition is a science that is not nearly as well understood as most people think.
But most of what I've learned about weight gain/loss and nutrition I've learned from books and research that look at the subject from a macro level.
The summation of everything I've read on the subject -- and I read a lot through my year long experience of losing weigh and changing almost entirely how I thought about food -- and my own experiences make me believe firmly that this is primarily an I/O issue.
And as much as you say "the science is settled and I am right" it's contradicted by a lot of smart people who study this and admit essentially 'the science of nutrition is immature and in many times conclusions are contradictory.' The most recent time I heard that was just last week in the same Pollan NPR interview I mentioned elsewhere. (Though i think this was a re-broadcast, not sure the original broadcast date)
To be clear, here's my take:
1. Primarily an I/O issue. Everything else is a distant 2nd place.
2. How much of the equation is I/O? I don't know. 75%? 50%? It's not the whole story, though, I don't think. Our bodies are adaptive and complex.
3. There are no silver bullets and anybody peddling one is probably wrong (not to say they are entirely without merit.)
4. Nutrition is a science that is not nearly as well understood as most people think.