Fatty foods can't be worse than crayons.



/hot like marge

Remember fellas, if you wanna hook up with hot zombie tail like this, just eat plenty of fast food.



(you run slower that way)

still no studies on whether being an authoritarian douchebag is caused by or causes brain damage. It's one of the two.

AmorousRedDragon: hot zombie tail

I have the weirdest boner right now...

Except so far this could be limited to rats, and it's not entirely clear what (if anything) the "brain scarring" does.

Pretty lame "science" reporting.

Well, that explains Tea Partiers.

encyclopediaplushuman: High fat processed foods or just all high-fat foods...like nuts and olive oil?

How dare you have a nuanced view of these things. It's FAT = BAD! month. Next month it'll be "CARBS = BAD!"

At least we haven't gone full Denmark yet.

Eating sugary and starchy food (like honey-glazed potato chips) cancels out the effect, so enjoy.

I'm glad I smoke enough weed to offset the two.

But but but Bacon? :(

Stupid study is stupid. People these days are fat because of the sugar in our diets not the fat.

Here's (new window) the proof.

While long, about 90 minutes, this is maybe the best lecture, and lecturer, I've ever heard. Seriously. Dr. Lustig explains this stuff really clearly. At about 45 minutes though he gets into heavy bio-chemistry. So, if you just want the gist, watch the first 45 minutes and the last 10 or 15.

OK, reading TFA, the link is with high fat foods. Even so, fats aren't the present danger. Neither is cholesterol (also explained in the link above). It's all about sugar.

In a nutshell, don't drink your sugar (soda, fruit juice, etc.). Glucose (carbohydrates) is good. Fructose is bad. Only get fructose with the fiber (eating a fruit, not drinking its juice). HFCS and sugar are the same.

ITT: a bunch of farkers who didn't read the article and/or don't want to believe that eating crap food can be bad for you

profplump: I'm not saying we can't do things to change that, or that reducing sugar intake isn't one of those things, I'm just saying it's a broader problem than "food X is bad".

It is actually that narrow. Really. The proof is here (new window). If you're curious, it's worth the hour and a half.

Your thinking is correct though regarding processed foods. Aside from the preservatives, sugar is also used to extend shelf life by expelling water. This is also explained in the link above.

profplump: "don't eat sugar"

I agree that there are larger issues. In my opinion, and in the opinion of others much more knowledgeable than myself, the most important issue is that if we really look at our basic nutritional needs and the amount of energy, land, water, etc. it takes to meet them, then we should all be vegetarians. The amount of meat and fish we eat, for numerous reasons, is ruining the world. And with the system in place, you have two classes of people: the overfed and the underfed.

That said, the immediate dangers of epidemic obesity can apparently be solved if we drastically reduce our sugar intake. Convincing people not to drink their sugar would probably be a lot easier than convincing them not to eat meat more than once a month.

These findings are interesting, but I'm concerned that they will be twisted into another excuse for why people just "can't" lose weight.

Go read the book "Wheat Belly".

It's all about the wheat you shouldn't eat.

A General Disdain For All Of Humanity: Go read the book "Wheat Belly".

It's all about the wheat you shouldn't eat.

Ban all Bread

gleaningtheboob: Stupid study is stupid. People these days are fat because of the sugar in our diets not the fat.

Here's (new window) the proof.


I came here to point out that the article mentioned high-fat diet and then mentioned obese people without any quoted link to the 2. I think this is because of the myths that have been spread about the causes of obesity.

The causes happen as much in the liver and the pancreas as in the brain. The manufactured and processed foods are confusing the hell out of the endocrine system, this is why we are fat. The solution to the obesity problem in this country will lie in reforming the FDA and unlinking it from the agriculture industry. We are fat because of government corruption. We are fat because of lobbyists convincing the stupid lawmakers to allow industry to poison our food with artificial chemicals which prevent us from feeling full and make us crave more. Everywhere the US has sent its junk food has seen a rise in obesity and diabetes.

Not the teeth, Tammy

Well, Doritos are sharp and pointy...

What is it with all the zombies being as fast as Carl Lewis.

encyclopediaplushuman: Jensaarai: encyclopediaplushuman: High fat processed foods or just all high-fat foods...like nuts and olive oil?

How dare you have a nuanced view of these things. It's FAT = BAD! month. Next month it'll be "CARBS = BAD!"

At least we haven't gone full Denmark yet.

And the sign says brain-scarred fatty people, need not a..pp...app...lll..y...

So I tucked the fat up under my hat, and I went in to ask him why

Jensaarai: encyclopediaplushuman:

At least we haven't gone full Denmark yet.

What is full Denmark, please?

wambu: Eating sugary and starchy food (like honey-glazed potato chips) cancels out the effect, so enjoy.

Pizza counts too. Cause pizza cancels out all effects. Of anything.. Cause it's REAL special.

Well, that explains it; I am a high-fat food.