Let's be serious about Paleo

Spaghetti squash. Just cut in half spray with olive oil pam. Sprinkle a little salt an pepper. Place cut side down and roast in a 375 degree oven for about 45 minutes. Until lightly brown and soft. Turn over and scrape out flesf with a fork. It kinda looks like pasta. Then i put some spaghetti sauce on it. Yummy!!!

You forgot to mention why the satiety on processed food is so low. Obesity researchers call sugar (sucrose) and high fructose corn syrup, the "anti-satiety" element in processed food. It is included in virtually all processed food, and especially restaurant food: it supplies only calories. The reason why a diet that eliminates processed foods and sweets works is that it eliminates the non-satiety foodstuffs while retaining the nourishing foods our bodies crave (even if our minds don't). Being successful includes training our minds to want what our bodies want.

There is no scientific evidence stating about sucrose being the cause of obesity. If you actually look at the index why is it that fruit has a high satiation if the carbohydrate in there is sucrose?

There are a LOT of substances there beside sucrose (which is typically a quite small amount of the whole fruit) and those nutrients are likely what produce the satiety. In any case, (from Livestrong.com):

"...Your cells can either use the sucrose you eat immediately, or store it as fat. Typically, the faster you absorb the monosaccharides from sucrose into the bloodstream, the more likely they are to be stored as fat, note Drs. Garrett and Grisham. As such, sucrose that you obtain from eating whole fruit is less likely to be stored as fat than sucrose you get from less fiber-rich sources, like sweetened foods and beverages. Regardless, overconsuming sucrose from any source -- including fruit -- can lead to excess weight gain..."

We are speaking of volume of absorption over time here. One can of "orange" soda has 44 grams of fructose/glucose and it is very bio-available because there is no fiber. A whole orange has about 9 grams of total sugars and those sugars are encased in fiber where they are released slowly into the body. And because our teeth/mouth were not designed to completely pulverize the fruit, it is likely that a fair bit of the sugar will be unabsorbed and pass out of the body with the fiber. Plus, there are other substances in many fruit (such as an apple) that guard against the precipitous raising of blood sugar and make it less likely the sugars will be stored as fat.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/323696-fruit-and-sucrose/#ixzz2UvLwgHqI

there is no evidence that talks about sucrose content and satiety.

Like all addictive substances, sugar consumption tends to lose its satiating effect and, for many, many people, increasing amounts are sought. Here is a study that speaks to the issue of sugar addiction: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/88/56G31/index.xml?section=topstories

I just watched this video of this girl that I've been following for awhile. She's having great success with her body but I noticed something today. Her face is starting to look horrible. Her eyes have these black circles under them and she's walking around all lifeless and crap. I was like whoa. She really looked like she was weighed down with chains. Sure she has a nice body but at what cost? She was showing what all she eats too, it was in my opinion, way too much fat for one day and too unhealthy.

I watched the video today on The China Study, which can be found at the link below. It shows that high levels of protein and fat are linked to heart disease. If ever I've seen a diet that is high in protein and fat it's this one. So, is this diet really ideal, no. Not according this study that was done by medical doctors and I think that is pretty credible in my book. Please feel free to watch it for yourself. What do you have to lose? An hour of time for a video or 20-30 years of your life, you decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOEeTJY5zCM

"...Fruit is not a sugary food? So you should be able to want more fruit because it has less sugar? You are bringing up sucrose into this conversation when there is little to no indication on the effect of satiation in the human body. there are plenty of products out there that are gluten free and sugar free that have little to no satiation on the body.
lentils vs cheese.
mars candy bars vs jelly beans(which is straight sugar) ..."

Not at all sure of what you are trying to say here. If you will check back, you will see that I have said all simple carbs and especially sugar (sucrose and hfcs) consumption are problematic. When my brother was diagnosed with Type II, his dopey doc put him on a low fat/no fat diet and told him he didn't need to watch his sugar consumption--that weight loss alone would bring his diabetes under control. So my brother, in spite of the warnings I gave him, would, at times, eat an entire package of Snackwells (fat-free) and drink three glasses of skim milk (for a "snack"). He did actually lose a fair bit of weight (very low-fat diets tend to be low-calorie diets) but the weight loss could have been more a result of the Glucophage than anything else. BUT, HIS DIABETES GOT WORSE. He is now on insulin and since he had gastric issues on the Glucophage, they cut it out. Since he started the insulin and they cut out the Glucophage, he has regained all the weight he lost plus more and he is starting to have complications (foot ulcers). It was absolutely the worst diet he could have been on.

If he had been on the Paleo diet, I'm pretty sure he would have done a lot better. I don't follow the Paleo diet (I find it to be a bit too restrictive for me) but I eat no added sugar and limit my carbohydrates to 70-100 grams per day (I eat no simple ones). When I reach the point where I am satisfied with the level of body fat, I will up my carbs to between 100 and 150 grams per day. But I will still avoid sugary foods and simple carbs for the rest of my life. When I started on my pursuit of better health three years ago, I had hypertension (even though I was on two b.p. meds--AND my doc wanted to put me on a third). I was beginning to have crippling joint pain, and my blood sugars were running too high. I was a perfect candidate for TYPE II because I had a first degree relative with Type II (my mother also had Type II and died of complications from it) and I had gestational diabetes. I decided I'd had enough of feeling so crummy and started investigating. My fbs is now in the normal range, my HbA1C is great, my triglycerides are low and the best news is that my b.p. runs about 110/70 most days WITHOUT MEDICATION (I was able to taper off shortly after I stopped the sugar and simple carbs--even before I had lost much weight). It's hard to argue with results like that.

ETA: AND my arthritis has improved a LOT with the weight loss and the swimming I'm doing. :-)

"...his complications of foot ulcers is not necessarily a complication of his blood sugar.
It could be poor teaching and foot care. Shoes, etc....'

He goes to a foot care specialist every month. Unfortunately, there's only so much that can be done when there is poor control of blood sugar.

"...His BS was under control and peripheral neuropathy is a problem with diabetes. pretty standard. The insulin resistance is still decreased if he is hypocaloric..."

People who are leptin resistant (leptin resistance precedes and predicts insulin resistance) should not eat sugary food and simple carbohydrates. Those who are insulin resistant should definitely not. I think it was very poor medical advice to tell him he could eat anything he wanted as long as it was low fat/no fat. He's 7 years younger than me and he looks like he's about twenty years older than me.