Intermittent fasting again-Postul intermitent din nou

I just read an article that the hope is lost. We are bombarded with sugar and it is a lost war.
I guess intermittent fasting is way better in this hole era of sugar and refined food. It has all other benefits too, it reduces inflammation, prevents all sorts of cancers besides weight loss, preventing tip 2 diabetes and its complications. The war is not lost, I can't let the kids today to be on dialysis and blind at 30-40. There are some studies that associated with chemotherapy IF reduces the sides effects of the drugs ( the main reason you need to stop the treatment) and somehow (it's a more complicated mechanism) "starves" the cancer cell of glucose and help the drugs work better.
Knowing all this with a simple change of habit I can' t look the other way. People were doing this for centuries as a religious belief and earlier than that for no other choice, because the food was scarce. We evolved like that, we can take it. Believe me, I eat 3-4 days/ week and I still have 6-7 kg of fat in my body.
Of course it is hard, after 10-30 years of bad habits it is. But when we sit with a patient, give him a diagnosis and tell him the treatment, the sides effects we also tell him that this is his chance, if he doesn't take the medication maybe he will die. That we need to tell him about the diet. Moderation is not the option for people who are obese. Moderation is for the people who don't want to get fat.


Tocmai am citit un articol că lupta cu obezitatea e pierdută și am scris repede articolul ca să nu pierd ideea.
Cred că postul intermitent este cu mult mai bun în această epocă a zahărului și mâncărurilor procesate. În plus are și alte beneficii, reduce inflamația, previne tot felul de cancere, pe lângă pierderea în greutate, prevenția diabetul tip 2 și complicațiile acestuia. Războiul nu e pierdut, nu pot lăsa copiii de astăzi să fie dializați și orbi la 30-40 de ani. Există unele studii care susțin că asociat cu chimioterapia,  reduce efectele adverse ale medicamentelor (principalul motiv pentru care trebuie să întrerupeți tratamentul) și cumva (este un mecanism mai complicat) "înfometează" celula canceroasă și ajută medicamentele să funcționeze mai bine .
Știind toate acestea , nu pot să întorc capul și să mă resemnez . Oamenii au făcut acest lucru de secole ca o componenetă religioasă și mai devreme de atat fără propria voință, pentru că mâncarea era insuficientă. Am evoluat așa, ne trebuie practic mult mai puțină mâncare decât avem impresia. Credeți-mă, mănânc 3-4 zile / săptămână și am 6-7 kg de grăsime în corpul meu.
Desigur, este greu, după 10-30 de ani de obiceiuri proaste. Dar când stăm cu un pacient, îi dăm un diagnostic și îi spunem tratamentul, efectele adverse, de asemenea, îi spunem că acesta este șansa lui, dacă nu ia medicamentele, probabil că va muri. Trebuie să-i spunem despre dietă, aceasta nu ar trebui să fie o opțiune, iau medicamente, deci nu trebuie să " țin regim". Moderația nu este opțiunea pentru persoanele care suferă de obezitate. Moderația este pentru persoanele care nu doresc să se îngrașe, care sunt sănătoase și active.

Dr. Mirabela Cascaval

Acesta este articolul, poate are dreptate, dar nu pot renunța/ This is the article. He may be right, but I don'r know I can't quit.

"Hello and welcome. I'm Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape.

On a recent road trip through rural states, we slept at midrange, chain hotels that offer free, do-it-yourself breakfasts.

We saw so many really fat people shoveling down large quantities of free breakfast food, including waffles and/or pancakes with butter and corn syrup, bacon, pork sausages, scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, refined white-flour toast with butter, refined white-flour bagels with thick cream cheese, sugar-coated muffins, coffee with sugar and cream, oatmeal with brown sugar, and sugar-coated dry cereals. Some fruit (apples, oranges, and bananas) was offered but was mostly ignored. There was only skim milk or 2% fat milk, as a leftover from the 1980s travesty that whole milk is bad for your arteries.

To their credit, these hotel chains do provide small exercise rooms, but on this trip I never saw one person exercising.

In America, fat people look around and see more fat people. That's the new norm. I went shopping for a T-shirt on Amazon, clicked the "size" button, and the choices were small, medium, large, extra large, XX large, and XXX large. Oh my god, really?

We stopped for gasoline, used the restroom in a roadside convenience store, and looked for healthy snacks. You have to be kidding! Everything we saw was processed food. There were packages full of sugar, refined carbs, many additives, and salt, and they were supersized. The rest stops were drowning in all of that antinutritious garbage.

All of that stuff, including ubiquitous fast foods, burgeoned after the late 1970s and early 1980s as the obesity epidemic took shape. Then I read the most recent CDC reports on body mass index and obesity.

[The obesity epidemic] is still getting worse, even after so many years of medical journals, physicians and their associations, diet books, fitness trainers and centers, public media, government agencies, public health organizations, insurance companies, weight loss companies, public school education, bariatric surgeons, and TV role models trying to prevent or combat obesity.

It is worth trying and helps some people, but on the whole, gluttony, sloth, sugar, carbs, and diabetes are still winning the masses. We need to hit the reset button on the entire field of clinical nutrition, as John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, of Stanford School of Medicine suggested recently.^[1]

I am tempted to say that Harvard should recuse itself after having been such a large part of the sugar and fat problem from the beginning. But then again, some of the best, current information comes out of David Ludwig's work at Harvard.^[2]

The German, Julius Bauer, had much of this obesity issue pretty well figured out before the second World War. Unfortunately, much of his work was not followed up after the war. In 1941, noting that all calories were not the same, Ludwig provided the following recommendations^[3]:

• Restrict total carbs;
• Cut out refined grains and added sugar;
• Increase intake of nonstarchy vegetables, legumes, and nontropical whole fruits;
• Use whole-grain products;
• Consume nuts, avocados, and olive oil;
• Include moderate amounts of protein and fats.

I don't know. The other way is just too easy. I guess I'll saunter over to join the crowd and pig out. Life is short. Sugar really is sweet. Yum! I love those Snickers bars, pecan or apple pie à la mode with whipped cream, root beer floats, and banana splits. What the health?

That's my opinion. I'm Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape."