tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post9158813042935780064..comments2024-01-29T17:51:55.608+00:00Comments on Nige's Diet & Nutrition Blog: Determinants of the Variability in Human Body-fat Percentage.Nigel Kinbrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-38557781747722563522010-09-07T14:24:34.086+01:002010-09-07T14:24:34.086+01:00Thanks Dan.Thanks Dan.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-58170786561407600042010-09-07T14:16:53.991+01:002010-09-07T14:16:53.991+01:00Some great info in your blog Nige,
DanSome great info in your blog Nige,<br />DanDan Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12683308744095348492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-73906629955691946852010-03-28T11:57:30.230+01:002010-03-28T11:57:30.230+01:00Hi Valda,
I can't agree with you on everythin...Hi Valda,<br /><br />I can't agree with you on everything, as who's going to look after the stupid/easily-influenced & poor people?<br /><br />Now that I'm retired and on a lowish income (I'm still a tax-payer), I rely on the NHS to fix me when bits break (blocked sub-lingual gland in 2009 & inguinal hernia in 2010). I don't want to be forced to pay for private medical insurance.<br /><br />Should the stupid/easily-influenced be left to their own devices? If leaving them to their own devices makes them a burden on the NHS (& therefore tax-payers) due to diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer & other degenerative diseases, I think not.<br /><br />The FSA do actually do useful work. There should be standards and they should be maintained. We don't want to go back to the bad old days of manufacturers adulterating foods & drinks with cheap & nasty fillers or even salt to increase their profits and getting away with it. The FSA should however keep their sticky beaks out of things that they don't fully understand i.e. healthy diets.<br /><br />I think that multinational companies are powerful enough to destroy the health of a nation for profit. Edward Bernays started the manipulation of the masses using the subconscious about a century ago. Did you see the BBC documentary <a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126" rel="nofollow"><b>The Century Of The Self</b></a>?<br /><br />Cheers, Nige.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-25409976511629376052010-03-28T08:20:10.072+01:002010-03-28T08:20:10.072+01:00Nige
I think the government should stop interfer...Nige<br />I think the government should stop interfering in health altogether - abolish the FSA, phase out the NHS, cease food subsidies and stop regulation of food production. Government considers us too stupid to find out for ourselves what's good for us, but only government has the power to destroy the health of an entire nation.Valda Redfernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18375583444323538525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-23355019682140485922010-03-27T21:56:57.425+00:002010-03-27T21:56:57.425+00:00Hi Anonymous,
The figures are for lard and come f...Hi Anonymous,<br /><br />The figures are for lard and come from <a href="http://www.manitobaharvest.com/nutrition/index.asp?itemID=183" rel="nofollow"><b>Comparison of Dietary Fats Chart</b></a>.<br /><br />I guesstimate that human fat will be similar to pig fat as we are both omnivores. The omega-6 & omega-3 contents will depend on our diet.<br /><br />Nige.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-86633431330401492842010-03-27T21:20:49.759+00:002010-03-27T21:20:49.759+00:00Hi Nige.
What is your reference for this
(~43% s...Hi Nige.<br /><br />What is your reference for this<br /><br />(~43% saturates, ~47% monounsaturates, ~9% omega-6 polyunsaturates & ~1% omega-3 polyunsaturates)<br /><br />Great post.<br /><br />Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-9514129277799300702010-03-25T09:38:09.943+00:002010-03-25T09:38:09.943+00:00Hi Art.
I saw Peter's post on Hyperlipid.
I ...Hi Art.<br /><br />I saw <a href="http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2010/03/getting-fat-is-good-official.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Peter's post</b></a> on Hyperlipid.<br /><br />I think that it's both. Over-feeding babies & children causes excessive fatness. Excessive fatness causes all sorts of metabolic problems (the first diagram in Peter's post) including inflammation.<br /><br />The metabolic problems then cause more over-eating and also under-moving (the second & third diagrams).<br /><br />As long as babies are fed on manufactured sugary & starchy muck instead of proper food, children are allowed to eat junk instead of proper food and advertisers are allowed to proverbially ram their products down our throats all the time, the problem can only get worse.<br /><br />How to break the vicious circle? I made a few suggestions in my post but I don't know how practical they are.<br /><br />Cheers, Nige.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-60494868255504521312010-03-25T07:22:35.800+00:002010-03-25T07:22:35.800+00:00Hi Nige,
What do you think about the prospect that...Hi Nige,<br />What do you think about the prospect that chronic inflammation causes obesity, instead of just the other way around?Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-87107279274983260462010-03-24T22:32:02.517+00:002010-03-24T22:32:02.517+00:00Hi suat.
Thank you. I try my best to make the ext...Hi suat.<br /><br />Thank you. I try my best to make the extremely complicated a bit more understandable. I have to admit that I don't know how pre-adipocytes (to use their proper name) are created from stem cells, or converted into adipocytes (fully-functional fat cells).<br /><br />I read <a href="http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2010/02/yes-actos-and-avandia-cause-huge.html" rel="nofollow"><b>HERE</b></a> that a certain type of diabetes drug, the Thiazoladinediones (a.k.a. ****glitazone) create new pre-adipocytes from stem cells at the expense of new bone cells, thus causing osteoporosis.<br /><br />So, getting <b><i>moderately</i></b> fat is a natural process that is not harmful and it got humans through many a winter many years ago with a store of fat (~43% saturates, ~47% monounsaturates, ~9% omega-6 polyunsaturates & ~1% omega-3 polyunsaturates) for the rest of the body to "eat" when food was unavailable. When our bodies are burning body-fat stores, we are effectively on high-fat diets. So much for high-fat diets being "dangerous"!<br /><br />Nowadays, due to the easy availability of very cheap, very calorific and very advertised foods, some people get fat too quickly & others just get too fat, so their supply of fat cells & pre-fat cells becomes exhausted.<br /><br />There are also quite a few slim people who are insulin-resistant and have poor beta-cell function due to Hypovitaminosis D from a lack of sun exposure, so even slim people aren't immune from type 2 diabetes.<br /><br />Hope that helps.<br /><br />Nige.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-8281254042215617432010-03-24T21:37:05.564+00:002010-03-24T21:37:05.564+00:00Hi Nigel ! First I like to thank you for your blo...Hi Nigel ! First I like to thank you for your blog , I find it very informative especially for laymen like me it is very clear. <br />you said "either pre-fat cells are turned into new empty fat cells or if there are no more pre-fat cells left, the result is type 2 diabetes." what do you mean by pre fat cells, does body produce new fat cells or they were actually there in the begining just waiting for its turn to be filled?<br />according to this can we say that getting fat actually is good for you (though not in very long term) since it is protecting you against diabetes and all other metobolic syndromes? from this can we conclude that people who put on weight easily have got an advantage especially if they keep themselves slim and leave those fat cells empty.<br /><br />thank you very much<br /><br />best regards<br />suatsuatnoreply@blogger.com