Another culprit for obesity: Too much insulin

zyxst

"No magic obesity pill, yet: While existing insulin-blocking drugs could prevent weight gain, they carry serious side effects that outweigh their benefit. Further research might lead to drugs that block excess insulin production or blunt its effect on certain targeted tissues."

So, based on the comments, most of you think WHAT one eats plays no role in health and/or obesity, and that one should simply know when to stop eating (even though there are real biological explanations for why many people aren't feeling full when they should), think that those of us who have solved our health issues by getting rid of grain (or whatever), should just go back to eating grain, fight and struggle with hunger again and blame ourselves for our lack of "willpower" and just wait for the "magic obesity pill". Because the pill would be much more logical and rooted in "science" and "healthy" and "safe" (because the FDA says so) than eliminating a food(s) that stimulates (some of) us to over eat and/or get sick. Whatever.

If you have a problem with wheat/grain, don't eat it. But guess what? I don't have a problem with wheat. I eat it and lose weight. For me, calories out>calories in=weight loss.

cfregon

Bump so I can save this for later reading.

chivalryder

Last I checked, insulin was a good thing. What you have to do is manage it with what you eat, when you eat, how much you eat, etc.

Especially if you're an athlete. Insulin is your best friend in that scenario.

Cr01502

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againagain

"Johnson concluded that extra insulin produced in the normal mice by the high-fat diet caused their obesity, which strongly suggests that mice – and, by extension, humans – may make more insulin than they need. "

Uh, or they eat more calories than they need....

Thing is, the human body's insulin production hasn't suddenly evolved in the last 50 years to make us less fit. What has changed is diet and lifestyle.

I know I am preaching to the choir here, sorry.

All that said, I read the abstract and what this study shows is actually quite interesting, but I don't think that you can "blame" insulin when the cause of the insulin is apparent in the study design.

WendyTerry420

“Worrying about insulin or meal timing is fine-tuning that is irrelevant when the car is headed in the wrong direction,” she said. “If you want to reduce your body weight, you’ve got to stop eating so much. Eat less, move more.”

^ This is a great quote.

Oh, gawd! Where's Matt_Wild when we need him? :laugh:

mmapags

"No magic obesity pill, yet: While existing insulin-blocking drugs could prevent weight gain, they carry serious side effects that outweigh their benefit. Further research might lead to drugs that block excess insulin production or blunt its effect on certain targeted tissues."

So, based on the comments, most of you think WHAT one eats plays no role in health and/or obesity, and that one should simply know when to stop eating (even though there are real biological explanations for why many people aren't feeling full when they should), think that those of us who have solved our health issues by getting rid of grain (or whatever), should just go back to eating grain, fight and struggle with hunger again and blame ourselves for our lack of "willpower" and just wait for the "magic obesity pill". Because the pill would be much more logical and rooted in "science" and "healthy" and "safe" (because the FDA says so) than eliminating a food(s) that stimulates (some of) us to over eat and/or get sick. Whatever.

You are free to go ahead and try to figure all that stuff about all the ways to fine tune and manipulate the variables. Good luck with that.

I just going to be over here controlling my intake, working out like a beast and living my 60s and forward in good health by just doing a couple of simple things:
Eat no more than I burn
Eat balanced macro nutrients
Eat mostly nutrient dense food
Get regular exercise including strength training, some aerobic training and some stretching.

Works like a charm!