Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 27^th, 2014 at 6:40am:



spot on..

we do not move enough.....how many fat people do you see walking or jogging....almost none..why.. because they cant.....

until I was about 30 I walked everywhere..or run I was always late for the buses....no one thought about what energy we burnt just doing that each and every day it was the norm for almost everyone.....

it wasnt until we became a two car family it kind of all went pear shaped... pun intended...

on top of that we ate more food instead of less.....we could afford two cars we could afford to put more food on our plates....even kids were told eat up...even if it was clear they had had enough..

pansi have you noticed.. [me included] how when food serves get smaller.[maccas] we whinge like hell..

we are our own worst enemy.... I am btw working on finding the lose 7 kilos overnight secret....

I will write a book...of course.... may sign a copy for you if you are interested.....

The_Barnacle wrote on Dec 27^th, 2014 at 9:48am:


While both are not good for you, sugar is by far the worse offender of this deadly duo.  Fat at least has SOME nutritional content apart from just being empty kilojoules, whereas sugar is almost entirely pure energy in its mots common form (sucrose)

Additionally, fat needs to be broken down by your digestive system, which uses kjs in the process, while sugar takes almost none (and glucose takes zero)

The_Barnacle wrote on Dec 27^th, 2014 at 10:24am:



True. If you have 2000 more kj than your body requires, you will gain weight, if you have 2000 less, you will lose weight. It all depends on the energy (kj) you use/ burn up.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 27^th, 2014 at 6:40am:

wrong. You can consume as much protein as you like but the extra calories will not be stored as fat, they will be excreted through your kidneys.
Next myth!

The_Barnacle wrote on Dec 27^th, 2014 at 9:48am:
this is also wrong, fat does not make you fat, the offender in all those foods you mentioned is carbohyrdates. Think about it, for half a million years our ancestors lived mostly on animal fats and protein, simple  carbohydrates do not occurr naturally in the wild to any great degree , it was extremely rare for our ancestors to obtain any.

Fats are not the bodies preferred energy source if carbohydrates are available, thus, if the bodies energy needs are already being met by those carbs (which they likely weren't in the time you refer to) the energy ingested in the form of fats will be excreted and/or converted back to fat and stored.  So in this case, fat can make you fat.

if this was so Honky then we would not see marathon swimmers storing immense amounts of fat on their bodies which is burned as fuel during thier marathon.  I have long suspected the villain in modern diets is carbohydrates, not fat as we are lead to believe by some. I will come back to this and make another more extensive post later.