{"id":33583,"date":"2010-11-25T00:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T08:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2010-11-30T04:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:20:35","slug":"eating-and-eating-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/25\/eating-and-eating-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating, and eating well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"imgcapright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8005\" title=\"turk\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/11\/turk.png\" alt=\"turk\" width=\"376\" height=\"279\" \/><br \/>\nCredit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tuchodi\/4003359098\/\">tuchodi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving Day to all the Americans out there. This is a day to loosen the belt a bit, but after the Holidays you probably want to think about slimming back. So, <em>ScienceDaily<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/11\/101124171536.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Obesity Riddle Finally &#8216;Solved&#8217;<\/a>, and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1007137\">Diets with High or Low Protein Content and Glycemic Index for Weight-Loss Maintenance<\/a>. The upshot seems to be that a high protein-low (refined) carb diet worked best in a large sample of Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>Myself, I was in the 155-165 pound range between 2000 and 2007. 2008-2010 I&#8217;ve been in the 140-150 range, and usually closer to the low end than the high. I went from a waist size in the 31-33 inch range to 28-30 range (I wear 28s regularly now). I&#8217;m moderately active in that I walk a lot, but I have totally turned away from refined carbs. I am not a religious &#8216;Paleo&#8217;, but I do track glycemic indices and glycemic loads for various foods rather closely. That being said, <strong>different people have different biologies.<\/strong> I think that&#8217;s important to remember. As a South Asian I have a higher risk for type 2 diabetes, so I&#8217;m particularly vigilant about sugar and other variables which increase my probabilities for chronic diseases. If I was a Northern European I might have different priorities, and chill out a little bit about dessert. Life is about trade-offs, and pleasures do often have costs. I am not much of a sweet-tooth, and I&#8217;m genetically predisposed to type 2, so my aversion toward sweets is a rather simple calculation. Others may have different outcomes performing the same operations because of different inputs. The answer to a riddle may vary depending on who is asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: tuchodi<br \/>\nHappy Thanksgiving Day to all the Americans out there. This is a day to loosen the belt a bit, but after the Holidays you probably want to think about slimming back. So, ScienceDaily, Obesity Riddle Finally &#8216;Solved&#8217;, and, Diets with High or Low Protein Content and Glycemic Index for Weight-Loss Maintenance. The upshot seems [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33881,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33583\/revisions\/33881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}