Some people are born with a tendency to be heavy. But genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger. I was obese, now I am not. That’s saying something in our obesigenic society. You are right - low carb and keto are the way. Add time restriction and the tendency to store energy is easily overcome. Also, many people who don’t get fat DO get very sick. Chronic energy imbalance is almost always deadly.
The real issue here is self-mastery. If you cannot conquer yourself, you are in no position to oversee others.
Here's the thing: as much as I agree with this regarding Fatty Two by Fours, and don't believe in The Gay Gene because there is no evidence to support it...
I do believe some people are born to be fat.
And the reason is because I know families where one kid strongly resembles the fat parent and is also fat, and the other resembles the skinny parent and is skinny.
How generally this applies I have no idea nor any Genetic Proof.
But since bother kids had the same general upbringing and ate at the same table it's pretty clear bad dietary habits don't answer for everything.
And despite the weird claims made in reply the first time I mentioned my 400 pound Freight Train Friend, he is actually an archetype who for decades started his day eating breakfast at the "Round Table" with his hard working gargantuan buddies.
And whether any more freaks want to write insane rants in response or not, the reality is that any one of them could work you ( Joe " skinny" Public) to death just lihe the freight train that beat John Henry.
And they really are a substantial ( no pun intended) segment of Fat People.
One of the smaller 2x4s I know, for example, at 6'3 and 300, earns his living working for a concrete company as a subcontractor. He and his ginormous partner are the guys that load concrete stairs on the truck and deliver them and install them for the homeowner.
I promise none of you skinny dudes could begin to hold up your end.
And to be clear, I personally weigh less than when I graduated High School, have a 32 inch waist and am precisely 5'11 3/4" tall.
Also, I didn't finish telling about my best friend. After building a huge home for his family and working out at the Y Center for ten years and getting as slender as me proportionally, he decided he was very uncomfortable as a skinny person and did not like being skinny and deliberately went back to being fat.
Raw weight isn't always a good metric, which is why BMI is often deceptive. The ratio of muscle to fat is also important to consider. I don't think it's inconceivable to be 6-3, 300 pounds and be metabolically healthy.
The thing is the concept was never meant to suggest being morbidly obese was actually healthy.
That being said, these guys are a very long way from having beach bodies.
They are definitely Lardos, bellies spilling prodigiously over their belt buckles, stereotypical butt cracks revealed when they bend down to work on something.
But the thing is, if they dump the weight like my friend did, their free testosterone drops precipitously, And their explosive strength along with it.
When the 300 pounder gets home from lugging concrete all day, it can be after six.
But he is really hungry, so he eats a couple big sandwiches while his wife's makes a full dinner.
Then he wants to relax so he has a whiskey and smokes some high end weed.
Now he is hungry again and it's almost eight when he demolishes a full dinner.
After dinner, it's another drink and another joint and already it's 9 pm and bedtime in order to get up at five,, do the 3 Ss eat a full breakfast , watch the news and be out the door at seven to do it all again.
So instead of the minimum advised four hours between dinner and bed, he gets like forty minutes.
And I don't know how else he could do it. And the same for the rest of them, trey don't get to eat until 630 or 7 and they have to crash early to do it again the next day.
I see them everywhere, guys I don't know but can recognize by their steel toed footwear, worn out baggy no name jeans and ginormous bellies, driving
$75K pick up trucks.
They are almost an ethnicity, and certainly a cultural group.
When you know some of them you realize their social group is comprised mainly of huge guys like themselves.
And it's similar with smokers. Those who run five miles a day don't cough that much.
I think it does not matter what your age or body shape is. If you eat enough sugar, you will get Type 2 diabetes. I just went to the grocery store. In the cereal section, wow, amazing! Fentanyl is illegal, but sugar is worshiped - especially for little kids! It is similar with so many other things - the U.S. Government and the giant corporations, prey upon everyone, every country, and everything they can. And let's remember, one dollar, one vote! In America, DUI is seen as a terrible scourge, but tobacco, which kills 500,000 people each year, is great. We live in an awful awful place.
There was a guy, Roy Masters, who was on the Internet, you can find him at Wikipedia. He lived until 92. He had Type 2 diabetes, he changed his diet, and "miraculously", he was cured!!
(Now, you can find lots of "fat is beautiful", "fat is healthy", people, who have "mysteriously" died!! 😅 😂 🤣 Of course, it is the same with the vaccinated.)
Remember Dr. Fettke in Australia who almost lost his license to practice for, what they said "unapproved healing" when he encouraged a diabetic patient to eat a ketogenic diet. Ketogenic diets are still "not approved".
Man, Substack is becoming impossible to use. Every character of my previous posts made the keyboard cover the comment box, so I was flying blind trying to fight Auto Correct.
The Acid Test is about the Genesis of the Grateful Dead, and Ken Kelsey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which snagged Oscars galore when it went Hollywood with Jack Nicholson perfect as Old School Irish Hoodlum Stereotype Randall McMurphy. And The general adventures if the Merry Pranksters and their legendary Psychedelic School Bus, Further, with a special emphasis on their interactions with the Hell's Angels.
Before either of those was The Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, an uproarious examination of the never before, never again magic that was 60s Southern California ,with a special focus on Car Culture.
But for me the best part is his spot on characterization of Watts Blacks and their reaction to the " Beatoos".
One more of my favorites is Bonfire of the Vanities, particularly the chapter entitled Tawkin' Irish in which his brilliant ear for dialect adds to the humor once again.
You can find a lot of his stuff as free PDF files on line, including Internet Archive.
But you have to be careful not to confuse him with Thomas Wolfe, another great one, but not nearly as funny, author of Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't go Home Again.
Also, I want to complain that Substack is demanding I go to my email and confirm my identity when I am responding to an email from Substack.
That's very suspicious. Are they trying to document the author's of controversial posts?
And what is the deal with the pernicious Keyboard Stuttering?
It was the first book that made me cry, in 1970 when I was in 9th grade.
It tied in to the Weekly Reader on Geraldo Rivera and John Lennon trying to wake people up to the Nazi Scam of Psychiatry and the horrors of State Hospitals.
I been type 2 diabetic for 15 years. Only one thing keeps my sugar down (to the 100 level or so.) Less than 30g of carbs a day. Preferably less than 20g. Nothing else works. (Atkins beat me to discovering that...) Metformin was helpful but ruined my digestion. When I asked my doc whether I could come off Farxiga because it didn't seem to contribute, he said stay on it as it has good side effects. That's artound $200 a month right there. For side effects.
You are right. Sugar is poison. You can see it in supermarket lines.
Atkins was a genius in my book. he nailed a big part of fatness, inflammation from carbs/sugar/insulin. of course, he was pilloried by Congress as a quack. read his book 25 years ago and have been carb-careful ever since. never had a weight problem, just interested in his ideas.
Some people are born with a tendency to be heavy. But genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger. I was obese, now I am not. That’s saying something in our obesigenic society. You are right - low carb and keto are the way. Add time restriction and the tendency to store energy is easily overcome. Also, many people who don’t get fat DO get very sick. Chronic energy imbalance is almost always deadly.
The real issue here is self-mastery. If you cannot conquer yourself, you are in no position to oversee others.
The last paragraph there says it all.
Here's the thing: as much as I agree with this regarding Fatty Two by Fours, and don't believe in The Gay Gene because there is no evidence to support it...
I do believe some people are born to be fat.
And the reason is because I know families where one kid strongly resembles the fat parent and is also fat, and the other resembles the skinny parent and is skinny.
How generally this applies I have no idea nor any Genetic Proof.
But since bother kids had the same general upbringing and ate at the same table it's pretty clear bad dietary habits don't answer for everything.
And despite the weird claims made in reply the first time I mentioned my 400 pound Freight Train Friend, he is actually an archetype who for decades started his day eating breakfast at the "Round Table" with his hard working gargantuan buddies.
And whether any more freaks want to write insane rants in response or not, the reality is that any one of them could work you ( Joe " skinny" Public) to death just lihe the freight train that beat John Henry.
And they really are a substantial ( no pun intended) segment of Fat People.
One of the smaller 2x4s I know, for example, at 6'3 and 300, earns his living working for a concrete company as a subcontractor. He and his ginormous partner are the guys that load concrete stairs on the truck and deliver them and install them for the homeowner.
I promise none of you skinny dudes could begin to hold up your end.
And to be clear, I personally weigh less than when I graduated High School, have a 32 inch waist and am precisely 5'11 3/4" tall.
Also, I didn't finish telling about my best friend. After building a huge home for his family and working out at the Y Center for ten years and getting as slender as me proportionally, he decided he was very uncomfortable as a skinny person and did not like being skinny and deliberately went back to being fat.
Raw weight isn't always a good metric, which is why BMI is often deceptive. The ratio of muscle to fat is also important to consider. I don't think it's inconceivable to be 6-3, 300 pounds and be metabolically healthy.
Yeah, that's really the issue, to an extent.
The thing is the concept was never meant to suggest being morbidly obese was actually healthy.
That being said, these guys are a very long way from having beach bodies.
They are definitely Lardos, bellies spilling prodigiously over their belt buckles, stereotypical butt cracks revealed when they bend down to work on something.
But the thing is, if they dump the weight like my friend did, their free testosterone drops precipitously, And their explosive strength along with it.
When the 300 pounder gets home from lugging concrete all day, it can be after six.
But he is really hungry, so he eats a couple big sandwiches while his wife's makes a full dinner.
Then he wants to relax so he has a whiskey and smokes some high end weed.
Now he is hungry again and it's almost eight when he demolishes a full dinner.
After dinner, it's another drink and another joint and already it's 9 pm and bedtime in order to get up at five,, do the 3 Ss eat a full breakfast , watch the news and be out the door at seven to do it all again.
So instead of the minimum advised four hours between dinner and bed, he gets like forty minutes.
And I don't know how else he could do it. And the same for the rest of them, trey don't get to eat until 630 or 7 and they have to crash early to do it again the next day.
I see them everywhere, guys I don't know but can recognize by their steel toed footwear, worn out baggy no name jeans and ginormous bellies, driving
$75K pick up trucks.
They are almost an ethnicity, and certainly a cultural group.
When you know some of them you realize their social group is comprised mainly of huge guys like themselves.
And it's similar with smokers. Those who run five miles a day don't cough that much.
Very good! 👍 👍 👍
I think it does not matter what your age or body shape is. If you eat enough sugar, you will get Type 2 diabetes. I just went to the grocery store. In the cereal section, wow, amazing! Fentanyl is illegal, but sugar is worshiped - especially for little kids! It is similar with so many other things - the U.S. Government and the giant corporations, prey upon everyone, every country, and everything they can. And let's remember, one dollar, one vote! In America, DUI is seen as a terrible scourge, but tobacco, which kills 500,000 people each year, is great. We live in an awful awful place.
There was a guy, Roy Masters, who was on the Internet, you can find him at Wikipedia. He lived until 92. He had Type 2 diabetes, he changed his diet, and "miraculously", he was cured!!
(Now, you can find lots of "fat is beautiful", "fat is healthy", people, who have "mysteriously" died!! 😅 😂 🤣 Of course, it is the same with the vaccinated.)
Remember Dr. Fettke in Australia who almost lost his license to practice for, what they said "unapproved healing" when he encouraged a diabetic patient to eat a ketogenic diet. Ketogenic diets are still "not approved".
Man, Substack is becoming impossible to use. Every character of my previous posts made the keyboard cover the comment box, so I was flying blind trying to fight Auto Correct.
The Acid Test is about the Genesis of the Grateful Dead, and Ken Kelsey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which snagged Oscars galore when it went Hollywood with Jack Nicholson perfect as Old School Irish Hoodlum Stereotype Randall McMurphy. And The general adventures if the Merry Pranksters and their legendary Psychedelic School Bus, Further, with a special emphasis on their interactions with the Hell's Angels.
Before either of those was The Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, an uproarious examination of the never before, never again magic that was 60s Southern California ,with a special focus on Car Culture.
But for me the best part is his spot on characterization of Watts Blacks and their reaction to the " Beatoos".
One more of my favorites is Bonfire of the Vanities, particularly the chapter entitled Tawkin' Irish in which his brilliant ear for dialect adds to the humor once again.
You can find a lot of his stuff as free PDF files on line, including Internet Archive.
But you have to be careful not to confuse him with Thomas Wolfe, another great one, but not nearly as funny, author of Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't go Home Again.
Also, I want to complain that Substack is demanding I go to my email and confirm my identity when I am responding to an email from Substack.
That's very suspicious. Are they trying to document the author's of controversial posts?
And what is the deal with the pernicious Keyboard Stuttering?
Anyway. Good Article, Donald.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest blew my mind when I first read it.
It was the first book that made me cry, in 1970 when I was in 9th grade.
It tied in to the Weekly Reader on Geraldo Rivera and John Lennon trying to wake people up to the Nazi Scam of Psychiatry and the horrors of State Hospitals.
Beautifully written. Very “Tom Wolf-esque”.
don't know who tom wolf is but I'll take it as a compliment. I'm sure he's a great guy
https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-radical-chic-that-party-at-lennys.html
If you read that you’ll understand what I meant.
The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities also a famous magazine article “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s”
He wrote the book that became The Right Stuff, big time Hollywood movie about NASA.
He is gone now,but The Electric Kool AID Acid Test was his too.
Wolfe wore a signature white suit. He didn't let other people tell him how to think.
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/tom-wolfe-american-iconoclast
Yeah I thought it was really dorky until I found out he did it to annoy people.
Then it made me laugh again.
Sad. There is nothing healthy in obesity. Or Twiggy, for that matter.
60gm of sugar doesn't surprise me. It's all about money.
I been type 2 diabetic for 15 years. Only one thing keeps my sugar down (to the 100 level or so.) Less than 30g of carbs a day. Preferably less than 20g. Nothing else works. (Atkins beat me to discovering that...) Metformin was helpful but ruined my digestion. When I asked my doc whether I could come off Farxiga because it didn't seem to contribute, he said stay on it as it has good side effects. That's artound $200 a month right there. For side effects.
You are right. Sugar is poison. You can see it in supermarket lines.
Atkins was a genius in my book. he nailed a big part of fatness, inflammation from carbs/sugar/insulin. of course, he was pilloried by Congress as a quack. read his book 25 years ago and have been carb-careful ever since. never had a weight problem, just interested in his ideas.
A friend calls diabetes a refrigerator disease
ADA Bastards