Sugar V fat - BBC tonight [Wed 29th]

farway

Now here's a programme that may well provoke reactions

BBC 2, Horizon at 9PM

Identical twins, one on fat, one on sugar diets

According to blurb " results are shocking & surprising", but we can decide that for ourselves

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Emmiejayne90

now that sounds interesting!

jodie_t

Catch up on iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03t8r4h/Horizon_20132014_Sugar_v_Fat/

here's a synopsis as I recall - it was really interesting...

A couple of doctors, identical twins in their 30's, one did fat/protein diet for a month the other ate carbs only.. they could eat as much as they liked, they had the same amt of exercise throughout.

In tough tests of mental & physical capabilities the carb guy outstripped his twin every time and generally felt better all the way thru tho both said their extreme diets were miserable.

At the end the fat / protein guy had lost the most weight (think it was 9lbs) but 50% of it had come from muscle tissue, the carbs guy had lost some weight but about 25% from muscle tissue.

Amazingly the fat/protein twin had developed insulin probs so bad he was a smidge away from being diabetic, the carb guys insulin situation had actually improved!

They added some new research at the end of the proggie..rats fed high fat OR high sugar diets did not put on much weight. Rats fed a diet of foods such as cheesecake, exactly 50-50 fat -sugar, could not stop eating and became obese!

Just before i watched this i was snacking on some nuts & raisins, I thought how boring they are if you eat them seperately, but put together - WOW yumyum...OMG I was munching the proof!! sugar + fat together are irresistible!! They were saying the prob was with processed food like ice cream & cheesecake, but my nuts 'n raisins experience makes me think it might apply generally?

Malteaster

I caught up with this yesterday and thought it was interesting, especially the fat/sugar combined thing. Out of interest we looked at some biscuits my husband finds irresistible and they combine fat and sugar in equal proportions (and so does a classic cake recipe)

It confirms my gut reaction that the answer in my case is just to eat less.

tiggsnanny

I watched that programme, I thought it was really interesting. It's a bit of worry what cutting out whole food groups does to your body, I will stick with the calories in - calories out lol

acpgee

I found the irresistibility of fat+sugar interesting. I don't like sweets at all. I wonder if something similar is true for salt+fat, I find Doritos, crisps, KFC, hard to resist.

cathy0536

I watched this too, and wonder if the fat+sugar combination research would also apply to fat+carbs (as discussed during the programme carbs are converted to sugar by the body) - which would explain why the savouries like crisps, doritos etc are also so irrestible? I find it hard to stop eating a packet of kettle chips once they're open - which is why they're not being bought very often now. :happy: