It’s true, if you’re not getting fat it might be just empty calories
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boogetyboo@aussie.zone 5 months ago
To anyone out there with the ‘i can eat whatever I want without getting fat’ idea, yeah it’s not quite like that. Cholesterol and visceral fat are killers. So yeah, eat as much as you like but the healthy food factor applies to us all.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Calories are calories, if you’re not getting fat it’s because you’re not overeating too many calories.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It’s possible to absorb more or less from your food, someone who is lactose intolerant is not going to gain as much weight from eating the same amount of cheese as someone who is not
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
probably because of the follow up diarrhea
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Cheese has almost zero lactose. Less than lactose free milk
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Getting fat isn’t anyone’s goal. It’s always getting fit. Calories without nutrients will only lead to obesity.
Don’t understand why every American wants to die on a hill announcing this BS.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 months ago
A calorie is a unit of measurement. In terms of how much energy you are consuming, which is what matters for weight gain, there is literally no difference between one calorie and another.
“Empty calories” does have a meaning and it’s that something is ‘just’ calories with no additional nutrients. Not eating any nutrients will make you sick, but not obese.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If anyone wants to understand HOW we measure calories, here’s a quick video short
psud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Your concept of cholesterol is well outdated.
The ancient idea: cholesterol is bad
The old idea: there is low density cholesterol which is bad and high density cholesterol which is good
The current idea: there is low density cholesterol which is returning unloaded high density cholesterol which is good; there is high density cholesterol which is good; there is small dense cholesterol which is bad. That’s all really hard to test for, so get a coronary calcium score instead
Cholesterol carries fat around your body for energy. If you eat too much carbohydrate too often you never give your body any chance to use the fat…
(your body burns energy from most dangerous to least: alcohol immediately as it’s a literal poison; sugars (the main energy in carbohydrate based food) second as too much will destroy nerves - excess is stored as fat to prevent too high concentrations until or unless that system is broken (type 1 diabetes) or over used (type 2); then fat (excess fat is evacuated via faeces or vomit); then protein (protein tastes bad after you have had enough, so it’s hard to overeat))
… and so the cholesterol fails, breaking up and spewing out its load of fat. So the blood test that actually gives useful cholesterol information is high cholesterol with high free fatty acids (FFA) because the FFA is high because of the failed cholesterol
That’s a simplified version and isn’t quite technically correct, I’m not a scientist in that area so I’m not good at recalling the full detail.
We evolved in an environment where most of the year there was mostly meat to eat, along with whatever perennial plants that can be found in winter. In summer for a few weeks whatever fruit grew near you was available. We haven’t had time to adapt to eating grass seeds (wheat, corn, barley, etc). The native Americans of the Great Plains ate only buffalo, eating it fresh during mass kills in summer, and preserving tons of meat and fat as “pemmican” a 50/50 blend of pounded dried meat with melted buffalo fat, sewn into buffalo skins. When Europeans first saw them they described them as more fine nude than a noble in his finest clothes, tall and built like Adonis. Learning all this I changed to eating only animal products (beef and eggs) and found my health improve incredibly. It helped that I’m allergic to many grasses, including lawn, bamboo, and wheat, and cutting wheat out of my diet, along with all processed foods could only be good
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It was a general use of the word cholesterol - no concept was defined
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
My cholesterol is unhealthily low, what do
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Eat 19 avocados a day.
dentoid@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
You will not regret eating 18-20 avocados in a day
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I can’t afford that. They don’t just grow on trees
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You might, but a life without avocado regrets is a life avocado-unlived 🤷
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Talk to a doctor instead of a buncha chuckle-fucks on the internet.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Oh yeah they don’t know anything
psud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Increase your meat intake, eat eggs.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I already binge eggs and choline containing foods 😂
psud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
In comparison I eat almost only beef and eggs. Occasionally chicken and lamb. That had all my blood work in order, though it took 2 years to go from obese to the top of normal