Obesity & Diabetes
Peter Cheung & Others
4 February 2013
Peter
Cheung: Dear
all, I hope none of us are still drinking sugar-sweetened drinks.
Read the labels
and pay attention to: sugar, fructose, phosphate, lard, hydrogenated,
shortening. It is not easy to get rid of all of them in our daily diet. But cut
it down as much as possible.
If you eat out
often, it will be a challenge as restaurant foods are usually not labeled. If
you know what they put in your dim sum, you will eat less!
The author cited the
best diet is protein-rich and green leafy veggies---not a diet for us. Meats
are more expensive. You only can eat that much of green veggies. We like
starchy diet. So our insulin is up. We gained a few pounds. Some of us have
diabetes as we age. Should diabetics switch to high-protein diet? Not enough
data to tell. A balanced diet is probably the best diet.
Why is the world
full of obese individuals who do exercise regularly?
They still don’t
do enough exercise to counter what they eat!
Michael Phelps
eats 8000 calories and swims 6 hours a day. If he swims less and eat the same,
he will gain weight. I also find out as I exercise more I eat more. I have my chips(black bean-quinoa-corn) and salsa(home-made) everyday!
It will probably unload some of my stress. Stress is actually the most
important factor for diabetes and is the most difficult one to control. Some
obese patients undergone bariatric surgery and lost weight but become
alcoholics!
There are lucky
ones amongst us who will not gain any weight no matter how much they eat! Not
complaining, just to share.
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Peter Wu: I have
read somewhere lately that sugar is not only toxic, it is also addictive. Sugar
is so prevalent in our foods that our brain craves for sugar constantly and
sub-consciously. Remember the saying that somebody has a ‘sweet tooth’? That’s
because they are addicted to sugar without their realising
it.
As a
teeth-rotter and health-destroyer, you can find few equals to Coke as it is
addictive, corrosive and fattening.
That the
world has become addicted to sweet things is as a result of the invention of
corn syrup, which costs about one third (?) of the price of sugar and which the
Yanks are the major producer. This has virtually revolutionised
the drinks industry in the US and in the process, caused major health problems
around the world.
Foods
taste like cardboard without either sugar or fat, the other major contributor
to obesity.
Now
you understand why Moon Cakes taste so nice?
In terms
of being a health destroyer, I rank Moon Cakes the same as Coke. Some Moon Cake
manufacturers now come up with a low-sugar variety but have they reduced the
amount of fat they put into them?
Did you
know that the dough used in making Char Siu Bao (and for that matter all buns) has 20% sugar and 15%
lard (Pig’s fat) in it?
The types
and amounts of chemicals, and other dubious substances they put in our foods
are unreal. In NZ, a thing as simple as a brown gravy (eaten with roast beef or
pork) contains 17 chemicals. We know butter is bad for us – that’s what they
are saying now! But are margarines any better? Just look at what they use to
make them.
Bob Choi: Peter
Wu pointed out something that should be obvious: obesity is the result of our
addiction to food. Plain and simple. And it's not just bad (fattening) food,
it's all food. If you eat too much of healthful food, you will get fat albeit
at a slower rate.
But then food is
not the only source of addiction, is it? Anything that makes us feel good is by
nature an addiction because we all would like to continue to do things that
make us feel good. Don't we?
So eating tasty
food, taking drugs, falling in love, even physical exercise are addictive.
LIFE is the
ultimate addiction. Few of us will be willing to let go (of living) when our
time comes.