As of late, I’ve been attempting to explain the physiology behind such phenomena as insulin resistance to my girlfriend as a background for the reasoning I use in my ‘weird’ diet.
Today she tells me that reading some book called ‘Eat to Win’ by Dr. Haas, geared towards athletes and written in the 1980’s, it states it’s impossible to have too many carbohydrates as they are, and I quote, ‘turned into carbon dioxide and exhaled.’
Just think, eat 5,000 calories of pasta and you’ll be ripped!
I love the fat makes you fat mythos. What planet do these people come from?
You’d be surprised just how many people think that way. For instance I’ve told my parents about nutrition til I’m blue in the face, yet they still get excited about ‘low fat’ cookies. In one ear and out the other.
OH my god! I still have this book! And you know why? So, I can USE it to show people HOW insane that high-carb diet was/is. That’s what you should do, just start marking areas in the book where you can point out or dispove all that rather outdated info. I betcha it’ll resemble a coloring book once your through.
Old people for ya. My mates father tells me all you need is in one egg and one tomato. A more informed (?) explanation came from my parents who claim that egg contains every vitamin except C, which is in the tomato. A pepper would have been better. Also they claim egg is equivalent to eating 2 steaks (care to quantify?) Egg is only 12% protein yeah?
O’shea: There is some validity to the egg being a more complete and thus more useable protein: as compared to two steaks, I have no idea.
The book ‘diet for a small planet’ has a lot of easy to understand information about protein, and how most of it doesn’t necessarily go to much use because it isn’t complete.
Stop to consider how much anti-fat propoganda your girlfriend, and everyone else in this country, is exposed to every day. It’s almost like brainwashing. and when someone portrays the role of the expert (in the case of Dr. Hass), people who don’t know any better tend to listen, even if the “science” they use to back up their claims is rather silly… Bottom line is, it’s going to take a while to de-program her.
Just point at the print date, Jesus! That book is older than some of the guys that post on this forum! Say “Honey, it is 2002!”. Science has come a LOOOOOOONNNGGGG way in the past 20 years! I loved that part about exhaling your carbs, haha! Maybe Dr. Haas can do it, talk about a bunch of hot air.
My buddy’s sister just graduated from C.S.U’s nutriton program, and gave him a bodybuilding diet to follow. He weighs 190lbs, and dabbles in anabolics- she reccomended 50g protein per day! I told him he needs more than that per meal. I have had the unfortunate oppurtunity of attending nutrition classes at CSU as well, being informed that “creatine only causes a placebo effect” comes to mind. Their info is truly older than God, if you treat it like a comedy club it can be entertaining to go to class though. Bring a date, jot down some of the funnier things you hear. On the way out tell the professor “Thanks man, that was some funny shit- you made my day.”