Carbophobia+Article+EAT


 * Read the NYT article via the link below. Why is it called **Carbophobia**
 * it challenges the "conventional" ideas of diet and focuses more on the dangers of carbohydrates.
 * The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called....
 * Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Wight Control, and Disease.
 * Taubes argues that the best diet is high in calories from and _ but low in calories from _.
 * Protein and Fat... Carbohydrates
 * Taubes thinks there are three important diet myths.
 * 1) Too much dietary fat causes .... heart disease
 * 2) Lack of dietary fiber causes ... colon cancer
 * 3) Too much dietary salt causes ... high blood pressure
 * Taubes argues that calories from are worse than calories from _. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source?
 * a calorie from SUGAR is worse than calories from FAT
 * the experiments done in the in the 1950s and ’60s by Jules Hirsch and Rudolph Leibel had people hospitalized with controlled diets to see if different calories had different effects . in the end the outcomes were very similar and the experiments went on to prove that the type of calories had little effect on the subjects.
 * Click on "**diabetes**". What is diabetes? What causes diabetes? What is the normal role of insulin? What are some differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes?
 * diabetes is a life-long disease that is caused by high levels of sugar in the blood.
 * it can be caused by too much insulin, resistance to insulin, or both.
 * insulin is a hormone that is created by the pancreas to control the blood sugar.
 * insulin is supposed to move glucose from the bloodstream into muscle, fat, and liver cells, where it can be used as energy.
 * type 1 is usually diagnosed at childhood... it is caused because the body makes too little or no insulin... and in order to "sustain life" the person needs daily injections of insulin.
 * type 2 is more common than type 1... it usually occurs in adulthood when the pancreas doesn't create enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels normal... (usually because the body doesn't respond well to the insulin)... people with type 2 usually don't know that they have it... type two is increasing because of the increase of obesity and lack of exercise.
 * Click on "**obesity**". What is the BMI range for an obese person? overweight? What percentage of Americans are overweight? How has the percentage of obese adolescents changed?
 * the BMI of an obese person is 30 or greater... and over weight person has a BMI of 25- 29.9.
 * over two thirds of Americans are overweight.
 * the percentage of obese children has doubled in the last 20 years.
 * Click on "**colon cancer**". Where does the colon begin? End? Look on this page, who recently had 5 polyps removed from his colon? What is a colon polyp?
 * colon starts in the large intestine and ends at the rectum. Bush has had 5 polyps removed from his colon. a colon polyp starts as benign and then grows into cancer.
 * Click on "**cholesterol**" What is cholesterol? What is its function? What is a side effect of cholesterol in your diet? What are food sources high in cholesterol? What is LDL? What is HDL? What percentage of your diet should be fat? What percentage of the diet is fat for the average American? Which diet had more food (the average American diet or the Low-fat diet? Why?
 * cholesterol is a soft waxy substance found in all parts of the body.
 * cholesterol is created by the liver for normal body functions like producing hormones, bile acid, and vitamin D- it is transported by the blood to be used in all parts of the body.
 * side effect: you have a greater risk of developing heart disease or atherosclerosis. (when cholesterol increases)
 * Egg yolks, liver, kidneys, sweetbread, and brain are high in cholesterol.
 * low density lipoprotein is bad cholesterol
 * high density lipoprotein is good cholesterol
 * 25-35% of your diet should be fat
 * the average American has a diet with 38% fat
 * the low-fat diet has more food because fat is high in calories.
 * 25-35% of your diet should be fat
 * the average American has a diet with 38% fat
 * the low-fat diet has more food because fat is high in calories.