Butter your shiz.
Eat MORE Butter! Okay, so maybe not THAT, but...
Before weight loss surgery, I would bet that most of us tried a low-fat diet along with various other diet options.
I have a not-so-fond memory of "fat-free" potato chips. Fat-free fat carbohydrates. They really did great things in my lower intestines.
How's that working for you?
Not so much for me. I actually did the "best" with a high fat low-carb style diet, but I still ultimately had weight loss surgery anyway.
A new study suggests that fat substitutes in diet foods confuse the body, and do not help you lose weight at all. The body wants the fats.
I know my body runs on full fats. Low fat is not my friend post weight loss surgery. Full fat food helps my digestion, blood sugar regulation and, um, excretion. Probably helps a bit with my brain function too. I'm not a nutritionist of course, so I would suggest asking yours for more advice on this topic, as to how much fat should a WLS'er eat if a WLS'er could eat fat. Nutritionists suggestions vary. ;)
Fat substitutes used in popular snack foods to help people control weight may have the opposite effect, according to Purdue University research.
"These substitutes are meant to mimic the taste of fat in foods that are normally high in fat while providing a lower number of calories, but they may end up confusing the body," said Susan E. Swithers, professor of psychological sciences. "We didn't study this in people, but we found that when rats consumed a fat substitute, learned signals that could help control food intake were disrupted, and the rats gained weight as a result.
"Substituting a part of the diet with a similar tasting item that has fewer or zero calories sounds like a common-sense approach to lose weight, but there are other physiological functions at work. Tastes normally alert the body to expect calories, and when those calories aren't present we believe the systems become ineffective and one of the body's mechanisms to control food intake can become ineffective."
The findings appear online in the current issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, which is published by the American Psychological Association. This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Swithers, as well as co-author Terry L. Davidson, a professor of psychological sciences, are members in Purdue's Ingestive Behavior Research Center. The study also was co-authored by undergraduate student Sean Ogden who graduated this spring.
In this study, laboratory rats received crushed potato chips as a supplement to their diet, and then were divided into two groups that were given either a low-fat chow diet or a high-fat chow diet.
These groups were each split into two smaller groups. One group on each diet was fed a mixture of high-fat chips and the fat-substitute chips, containing olestra, which is a synthetic fat with no calories, while the other group received only regular high-fat chips. The chips were provided for 28 days. Rats maintained on the high-fat chow diet gained more weight and developed more fatty tissue when they were given fat-substitute chips compared to the animals that ate only regular high-fat chips.
"Again we are looking at an animal model, but there are similarities for humans, and based on what we found, we believe that our findings question the effectiveness of using fat substitutes as part of a long-term weight loss strategy," Davidson said.
They also found when the group of rats that had previously consumed both fat substitute and high-fat chips were moved from a low-fat standard chow diet to a high-fat chow diet, they gained more weight.
"What's interesting here is that weight gain occurred regardless of when the rats consumed the low-calorie, fat-substituted chips," Swithers said. "The rationale behind providing both high-fat and olestra chips was to ensure that the animals received similar cues related to the sensory properties of fat, but with different consequences. Without this kind of control, we would not know how they were interpreting the chips as high fat or not."
In past studies, Swithers and Davidson have found that when rats consumed artificial sweeteners, they were more likely to overeat. They believe that a similar disruption of taste-calorie relations may be happening with both artificial sweeteners and fat substitutes.
"When the mouth tastes something sweet or fatty it tells the body to prepare for calories, and this information is key to the digestive process," Swithers said. "This is a reminder to not discount the roles that taste and experience with food play in the way the body's systems work together."
Source:
Amy Patterson Neubert
Purdue University
Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/229429.php
& this is another one for the duh files, I never understood why fat was soooo bad for us. Granted I'm not eating a lb of bacon a day, but c'mon- we were made to eat some fats.. Yeah, let's eat something made by chemical manipulation vs something real.. not far removed from it's source. Ugh, I hate engineered food.
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
Diet soft drinks did me in. Oh yeah! DIET INDEED! I drank about a half a gallon a day of that stuff. It helped me "diet" all the way up to 400 pounds.
Study: Artificial Sweeteners Increase Weight Gain Odds
Calorie-conscious consumers who opt for diet sodas may gain more weight than if they drank sugary drinks because of artificial sweeteners contained in the diet sodas, according to a new study.
A Purdue University study released Sunday in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience reported that rats on diets containing the artificial sweetener saccharin gained more weight than rats given sugary food, casting doubt on the benefits of low-calorie sweeteners.
"There's something about diet foods that changes your metabolic limit, your brain chemistry," said ABC News' medical contributor Dr. Marie Savard.
Though Savard said more research needs to be done to uncover more information, the study does hint at the idea that the sweeteners alter a person's metabolism.
Savard said another recent study, whi*****luded more than 18,000 people, found healthy adults who consumed at least one diet drink a day could increase their chance for weight gain.
In the Purdue study, the rats whose diets contained artificial sweeteners appeared to experience a physiological connection between sweet tastes and calories, which drove them to overeat.
"The taste buds taste sweet, but there's no calorie load that comes with it. There's a mismatch here. It seems it changes your brain chemistry in some way," Savard said. "Anything you put in your mouth, your body has a strong reaction to it. It's much more than counting calories. It seems normally with sweet foods that we rev up our metabolism."
The information may come as a surprise to the 59 percent of Americans who consume diet soft drinks, making them the the second-most-popular low-calorie, sugar-free products in the nation, according to a consumer survey from the Calorie Control Council, a nonprofit association that represents the low-calorie and reduced-fat food and beverage industry.
Because so many foods today contain artificial sweeteners, the study results may go beyond diet drinks.
"The truth is, we're putting artificial sweetener in so many different things in water, in yogurt," Savard said. It's unclear if the results only adhere to diet sodas, she said.
"We have to rethink what this artificial stuff does to us. If we put this in water it might not be so good," she added.
The Calorie Control Council issued a statement that disagreed with the findings of the Purdue study and noted that past studies indicated low-calorie sweeteners benefit weight control.
But Savard said people who consume a drink or more a day should think about cutting back their consumption.
"The truth is, if you're consuming a drink or more a day, you know it. You know that you're taking it, and you really have to think about eliminating it. You're probably the very person who needs to change those health behaviors to prevent the diabetes, heart disease and stroke," Savard said.
"If you're just taking it once in a while, fine -- no big deal. If you're consuming one or more drinks a day, you should rethink what you're doing. You might be negating the whole reason in the first place."
do today, might burn your ass tomorrow".
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