Re: Meta Buzz
Originally Posted by
gumbud
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anyone come across this for weight loss treatment?
powder of tumeric;kelp;cinnamon; black pepper; fennel; stevia; vanilla; calcium carbonate E170; sodium bicarbonate backing sodaE500 and ascorbic acidE300 - sounds too good to be true and tastes yucky
Seems somewhat disingenuous to take ordinary products of Nature and present them as something else.
The health benefits of turmeric, kelp, cinnamon, pepper, backing soda etc are all well established and the list is of course far wider than that. Add in garlic, chili, ginger, paprika, liquorice root, broad beans and you have a powerhouse of Nature's bounty that is packed with 100s of active compounds.
Garlic alone has over 300 active compounds all working in harmony with each other, most of which scientists are still clueless about. Your average paracetamol tablet on the other hand has just 1 active ingredient.
These foods are not about weight loss. They are simply about healthy eating and providing a wide range of really health beneficial substances. Common sense dictates that if your diet is one of such foods, that good health will follow and that a reasonable body mass will be a by-product.
Diets do not work. Period. That is, if the intention of the diet is to lose permanent weight.
Why women all over the country still fool themselves is beyond me but basic intuition and common sense must be in short supply. Doubtless an impact of the sugar poisoning.
Pummy is esentially right when he says it is a case of:
calories in vs calories burned
The story is not quote that simple though. Unfortunately our bodies don't come complete with a built in energy meter which displays numerically how much energy is coming in from the food we eat, and more crucially, how much energy the body actually wants at any moment in time.
Without such a useful device we are left to work out ourselves whether our bodies need energy (and thus food) and typically we use the hunger sense as a guide for that.
When we feel hungry, we eat. Simple. And Nature clearly always intended for it to be that simple else why would we have that hunger sense?
Sadly, unscrupulous manufacturers have long since realised that drugs like sugar are capable of messing up that entire hunger sense system and equally capable of messing with the brain. Hence people are eating sugary foods which falsely reward the pleasure senses in the brain (making us think they are lovely) and once done, the sugar then messes with the body metabolisms, gives us a short boost of "feel good" energy and then triggers the hunger sense.
Result, we
feel hungry when in fact the body isn't the least hungry and doesn want or need more energy. That leads to people eating and snacking to quell the hunger pangs so the body is overloaded with energy is doesn't need, hence it stores the energy away as fats.
And there you were thinking it was the cream cake that was making you fat ! Nope it isn't. It is the sugar in those items which creates the false hunger and thus it is all the subsequent foods you eat that your body doesn't need or want that are making you fat.
Cut out the sugar and the problem goes away. Cut out sugar from tea, coffee, from your cereals. Refuse to eat any product that is laden with more than say 3% sugar content and you will find your body will heal. The weight will begin to fall off absolutely naturally and
permanently.
Give up the diets. Give up being a yo-yo member of Slimming World, Weight Watchers and all the others. Just kick sugar into touch. It is the true villain which will eventually kill you if you allow it to.