I have been to a nutritionist. She advised me to replace my dairy intake with soy. I did. I gained weight. Next I went to a naturopath who did tests and told me that soya was bad for my thyroid.
I have been to a nutritionist. She advised me to replace my dairy intake with soy. I did. I gained weight. Next I went to a naturopath who did tests and told me that soya was bad for my thyroid.Ah I didn’t realise our new members were nutritionists and personal trainers. Looks like we got it all wrong, guys. Can’t believe I was duped by Dr. Fung all this time. If only I’d listened to expert opinion instead
Oops, it was actually Zoe Harcombe...
Public Lecture Series: 'The Obesity Epidemic' - Zoë Harcombe.
She tackles the topic at the beginning of her lecture.
I have been to a nutritionist. She advised me to replace my dairy intake with soy. I did. I gained weight. Next I went to a naturopath who did tests and told me that soya was bad for my thyroid.
This will be met with derision. Harcombe is viewed by the CICO evangelists as a quack, alongside Fung, Taubes, and anyone else who happens to disagree with “the experts”
Well, I have to disagree with you Jim.
I discovered long ago that there is no one - absolutely no one who is an expert in me and my endocrinologolically challenged - except myself, of course. I now live in a happy zone building a wall to keep out the Expert stuff that doesn’t work for me.
If only I had discovered this earlier, then I wouldn’t be in the physical condition I now am.
All those expert pearls of wisdom that turned out to be corrosive stink bombs... eat less, move more, CICO, all you need is willpower, if I can do it then anyone can, go for the burn...
Nowadays I require a great deal more from an Expert than numerous repetitions of ‘I am an Expert. I am right and you are wrong - so stop arguing and do what I tell you!’
Again, I think part of the problem is that people here using the term CICO to mean the low-calorie approach to weight-loss. They are using 'calories in' to mean the calories on the plate wherwhich indicates that CICO doesnt work for all.
Very interesting - have you got any links to studies which show this?Often they involve eating more calories.
That's my position also, I know what works for me and keeps me stable and where I want to be. And quite a bit of that is by ignoring conventional expert advice, it takes time to figure out your own personal jigsaw. And it's not one single thing that does it, it's a multitude of things learned (Usually the hard way). A lot of trialing and testing. People pushing CICO or any one method (Low fat etc) as the be all end all of your problems usually have a financial incentive to do so. So you are given flawed, biased opinion at times.
Absolutely.
And those same Experts have a huge disadvantage. For all their knowledge, they can only spend a few minutes, and a few appointments with me, whereas I have been living with my body, and seen the havoc that certain advice causes, in a very immediate and personal way. On a full time and daily basis, too.
What's the nutritionists equivalent of "Mansplaining" because you've just done it...
And if obesity is a symptom and not a cause?
"And if obesity is a symptom and not a cause?"
Then Professor Taylor's experiment would not have worked.
Then when the weight gainers find something that works for them such as LCHF or keto then the HCPs assume that we are at last following their instructions to eat less and move more. I have tried to talk about what works for me as it may help them to understand others but most of them just aren't interested.Of course I'll lose weight if I eat one chocolate bar a day, or one potato or whatever. I am not disputing that a calorie deficit causes weight loss, but I am disputing that CICO is an effective attitude to hold, particularly from healthcare providers who, if they haven't experienced hormonally driven weight gain themselves, can be inclined to dismiss weight gainers as greedy, weak, poorly educated on nutrition, etc.
Yes I began to get insulin resistant when I was 30 ish. I didn't have health problems (except for the weight gain) until I was 51. I wasn't diagnosed T2 until I was 53I disagree.
The obesity is a symptom of insulin resistance (for many, but not all of us).
There are many reasons for insulin resistance, and many reasons for obesity, which go far beyond fat in the liver and pancreas - and the Newcastle Diet only addresses a narrow range of those.
Not really... Prof Taylor's experiments are on the removal of visceral rather than plain old subcutaneous body fat."And if obesity is a symptom and not a cause?"
Then Professor Taylor's experiment would not have worked.
No it is not. But if carbs are driving obesity why the continued upward trend?
If you look at the data on added consumption of calories to American diets they are eating about 500kcal more per day than they were in 1970 and the bulk of that is from addes dietary fats...
ermm.....................what else could it be? I dont inhale calories from air. Where are these other calories in coming from?They are using 'calories in' to mean the calories on the plate wher
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