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Thursday, June 23, 2011
This study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, tracked people every four years. The average weight gain was 3.35lbs in four years – that’s more than 2 stone (15kg) a decade!
POTATO CRISPS was the single biggest predictor of weight gain giving a 1.7lb weight gain every four years.
POTATOES were next at 1.3lbs.
SUGARED DRINKS was the third biggest promoter of weight, at 1lb.
MEAT both processed and unprocessed, was associated with a 0.9lb weight gain. So much for Atkins.
That’s the bad news foods.
The good news foods were
YOGHURT associated with a 0.8lb weight loss.
NUTS, despite being ‘high fat’ were associated with a 0.6lb weight loss
FRUITS gave a 0.5lb weight loss
WHOLE GRAINS gave a 0.4lb weight loss
VEGETABLES a 0.2lb weight loss.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY was linked to a 1.8lb weight loss between the highest and lowest fifth.
ALCOHOL was linked to a 0.4lb weight gain.
SLEEPING less than 6 hours or more than 8 hours was linked to weight gain
TV WATCHING was also linked to weight gain.
STOPPING SMOKING was linked to a 5lb weight gain!
So, now you know what to eat and how to live! Of course, all these findings are completely consistent with my Low Gl Diet principles which also emphasizes the importance of physical activity, reducing alcohol and getting a good night’s sleep.
Unlike the Food Standards’ Agency’s agenda to increase carbohydrates such potatoes, I encourage reducing carb quantities and increasing whole grains, raw nuts, seeds, vegetable and eating fruit, not drinking it!
What is your view of Whey Protein powder? Is it beneficial in terms of general health? Does it have any disadvantages? Which is a good brand?
Thank you.
Posted by Jacqueline Graf on 06/24 at 09:08 AM
if you are dairy allergic you are likely to react to whey. Since many people are it is not my favourite processed protein source. There are some concentrated bean/pea protein powders.
Whey is used by some body builders because it is high in Insulin-like growth Factor (IGF-1). While this does build muscle it also promotes abnormal cell growth eg cancer. IgF-1 is definitely sometihng you neither want too much, or too little of. I’d rather stimulate my body to makes it’s own IGF-1 and growth hormones through resistance exercise. An example is the Special Report on How to Build Muscle in 15 minutes a week.
Qunioa and chia are both excellent sources of protein. If you are going to use whey my advice is to use little.
Posted by patrick on 06/24 at 06:51 PM
It could be said that polyunsaturated fats initiate and promote cancer also just as much as eating whey protein powder.
Posted by Matthew on 07/24 at 04:25 AM
could you please comment on INTEGRA LEAN as a weight loss aid.
Thank you.
Posted by Jacqueline Graf on 07/25 at 01:50 PM
Matthew - re polyunsaturates, it really depends which kind you are talking about. In my book Say No to Cancer I examined all the evidence I could find on fat in the chapter called ‘Good and bad Fats and omega-3s, both from vegetable and oily fish source, were the most consistently anti-cancer. They are also anti-inflammatory.
However, processed, fried vegetable oils must be bad news.
Posted by patrick on 07/26 at 11:16 AM
Jacqueline - thanks for bringing Integra-Lean to my attention. It relates to the African herb Irvingia gabonensis and there’s a decent double blind controlled study on it showing significant weight loss. (you can see this for yourself at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651880/?tool=pubmed.)
I always want to question the mechanism. It is argued to be to do with leptin, which i wrote about in the Sept’09 issue(53) of the newsletter.
Have you tried it? I’d be interested to know what your experience is. It’s certainly in my ‘watch this space’ pile.
Posted by patrick on 07/26 at 11:21 AM
