MORNING COFFEE WITH TRIAGE
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Good morning.
I will save you the reading time this morning. It's Friday, and so I will leave you with an accompanying video. I was initially going to write a big post about this topic, but then I thought it would be better illustrated in video, so I have kept the accompanying post pretty brief. I hope that you enjoy it.
In this video, I discuss the case for food rules (and potentially being "wrong" about nutrition). You see, for me to make a decision that improves my health, I do not need to understand nutrition science. Rather, I need to have some guiding lights that push me roughly in the right direction.
This is lost on many of us (maybe not you, which is great) who think that more and more information leads to better decisions, which is not always the case.
Growing up, many of us were told by our parents to avoid eating too many sweets, cakes, crisps, etc.. Of course, this is sound advice. But, then, as we learn more and more about nutrition, we realise that it is not necessarily specific foods that are good or bad, but rather the diet as a whole. However, this is not necessarily a good lesson for everyone. For some, the introduction of higher quantities of such foods into the diet can be
pretty bad, as higher intakes of processed foods leads to spontaneous increases in caloric intake. Yes, weight management is all about "calories in vs calories out",
but this [im]balance is subject to many influences, not just the choice to eat a particular amount of calories (e.g. very simple convenience factors, neurobiological effects of certain food ingredients, macronutrient-specific effects on gut hormones and signalling, etc.).
In this video, I discuss where the overemphasis on being "right" can actually lead you (or others) astray, and why the nutrition ignoramus who simply eats "clean" may really be winning while you get caught up in the argument...
Enjoy the video, and have a good day.
- Gary
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