Ketovore, anyone?

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by Magna, May 1, 2024.

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  1. Magna

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    Not sure what you mean "create"? Cold breakfast cereals are generally very high in carbs, as they are made with either wheat flour, corn flour, rice flour, often bulked up with corn starch, etc. Then they often have sugar, honey, or HFCS added. Finally, milk is usually added which depending on the fat or lactose content may add additional carbs. Occasionally they even have vegetable (seed) oils added to the mix. It's cheap, it's quick, it's easy, but a bowl of most cold cereals is not the healthiest way to start the day.
     
    #191     Mar 24, 2025
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    #192     Mar 24, 2025
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  3. themickey

    themickey

    Yes but why 'cold'?
    How does cold differ from hot cereals in terms of carb variation?
     
    #193     Mar 24, 2025
  4. Magna

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    Ahhh, didn't realize what you were referring to earlier. Not clear why Doctor Tro emphasized the word "cold" by including it with breakfast cereal, maybe because they're eaten more frequently than hot. Can't speak for him, but my guess is he feels the same way about "hot" breakfast cereals like oatmeal, grits, wheatena, cream of wheat, etc. as they are all made from grains which are high in carbs.

    I posted his tweet because I thought it was a pretty interesting list ─ I never would have guessed potatoes were #1 as far as carbs go in the American diet. The rest of the list is pretty straighforward, but again I wouldn't have predicted that "muffins" would be in the Top Ten list.
     
    #194     Mar 25, 2025
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  5. themickey

    themickey

    The reason I asked, I've eaten cold cereal all my life and I'm lean body weight.
    In my 20's I spent 3 months in Rotterdam Netherlands and packed on huge weight fast.
    I couldn't fit my shoes, shirts, trousers etc and had to get a new warddrobe of clothes.
    When I left and went back to NZ on a cruise ship I quickly lost all the weight.
    Have never figured out why, but in Netherlands I never ate cereal.
    I didn't eat a lot then as I was living on the bones of my ass financially living in a bed sit with no kitchen, nothing but a bed, didn't want to spend my money at the time, so yogurt which I initially hated (not now) I'd force that down as it was cheap to buy.

    Yeah, a real head scratcher that one why I whacked on the weight, never figured it out.
     
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    #195     Mar 25, 2025
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  6. It's really easy to lose fat. Just stay away from ultra prossesed food, and sugar that's not natural. (Also women tend to gain fat by eating a lot of fruit's)
     
    #196     Mar 25, 2025
  7. ph1l

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    #197     Mar 25, 2025
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  8. Magna

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    The Doc makes a very important point...

     
    #198     Mar 26, 2025
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  9. Magna

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    For 20 years I drank orange juice everyday and ate applesauce with every dinner. If you had told me that sugar intake on those two items alone was 3X the sugar in a twinkie I'd have never believed you. And that doesn't include all the other sweetened goodies I ate. :vomit:

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    #199     Mar 26, 2025
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  10. and sugar in moderation—yet diabetes rates keep rising.

    I think part of it can be contributed to the 'stealth sugars'.

    Even when youre indulging in something savoury,like a Hamburger,the sugars in the bun and sauces are astounding.

    Getting their addictive sugars into even a savoury product is evil yet genius.
     
    #200     Mar 27, 2025
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