Glycemia, starch, and sugar in context (2009)

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/glycemia.shtml

by yasp • 8 years ago

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MarkusAllen• 8 years ago

Wow - Ray Peat here on HN. Never thought I would see the day.

blatherard• 8 years ago

I'm not familiar with Ray Peat, why's it surprising for his article to be here?

_jgvg• 8 years ago

He's one of the greats of the crazy diets: people should eat more white sugar and fructose, people shouldn't exercise because it stresses the body, people should reduce or eliminate vegetables from their diets, and so on.

Also the king of cherry-picking parts of studies that agree with his view and ignoring everything else, no matter how prevalent.

ucaetano2• 8 years ago

Yep, time to start eating sugar and stop exercising. And endless coconut oil!

jl2718• 8 years ago

There are perhaps some things worth considering, much of it in wild opposition to other studies, but I’m going to say that this type of prognostication without myriad examples of success in application is probably dangerous to be considered as expert advice to the average disinterested person.

If you are interested in an example of a healthy person that eats this way, check out durianrider on YouTube. Dude lives on a bicycle though. It is actually hard to get fat on just sugar, because such a small amount produced satiety so quickly - unless you also wary regular foods like starch and fat along with it, and then you are going to explode.

So I’d say that he’s not wrong, it’s just not practical for most people. Honestly, if you’re fat, and I once was, the easiest and most reliable way to lose weight is to cut out all fats. You’ll be amazed how much that reduces total calories without affecting the way you feel.

Glycemia, starch, and sugar in context (2009)

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