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GREEN = HEALTHY WEIGHT, Y = OVERWEIGHT, R = OBESE
We put a lot of stake in the words which flow from the mouths of the people who run institutions like the Mayo Clinic. For some reason we see the doctors and scientists that make up the rank and file of these governing bodies as super confident, infallible, pipe-smoking, lab coat wearing geniuses. I often will tell clients that, in the minds of many medical doctors the acronym M.D. doesn't stand for 'medical doctor' it stands for 'Me Deity.' But worse, most people agree.Their doctors word is gold.
I came across a recent article by Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D. It discusses a recent study that indicates that many people while not overweight, are still overfat.
And this can be true - although you'd have to lose a good deal of lean mass (bone, muscle, organ tissue) for you to not be overfat but not overweight on the doctors scale. But it is possible.
The article is fairly OK but as is the norm when doctors give advice on how to gain lean mass and lose fat, the advice is a little cockeyed. He said:
"Exercise appears to be the best treatment for normal weight obesity. A program that combines aerobic exercise and strength training can decrease the body's proportion of fat and build up more muscle and bone mass. A diet that's low in saturated fat and includes lots of vegetables and fruits also will help decrease body fat. Cutting calories shouldn't be the focus, because weight loss isn't the issue. But, maintaining a healthy diet can make a difference."
Well, not exactly. First of all, aerobic exercise will not help you gain muscle mass and can, in fact, thwart the process. But the bomb is the statement that eating less saturated fat and eating more vegetables and fruit will help decrease body fat. This is completely untrue. In essence he is suggesting that fat makes you fat and fruits and vegetables can't. I guarantee you if you took this advice and stopped eating all saturated fat and replaced it with lots of potatoes, carrots and fruit, you'll gain weight faster than you can say Jackie Robinson.
Then he says that cutting calories shouldn't be the focus because weight loss isn't the issue. Here the doctor seems to not know that eating less calories results in less body fat. He seems to think that cutting calories only causes losses in lean tissue which is absolutely not true. Save for the tip on strength training, if you follow this man's advice you'll wind up spinning your wheels.
Here is the real answer: Strength train, eat very little sugar, more real fats and grass fed proteins. Like this:
Notice that there is no grain at all. In the end (mind the pun), grain is sugar. Fruit is mainly sugar too but fruit contains readily available vitamins and minerals that cereal grains do not so they are at the tippy top.
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