Like the video from The Fat emperor says, have the scan to check your coronary arterial calcification score. It may well be good but I would have to say that even if your heart and weight is not affected from your high fat diet, the other consideration is cancer from such a diet.I'd be very careful with that high fat buttery diet as is practised on the Bullet diet.
Have a read how Dr Atkinson was when he died after slipping on ice at 72. He was a total mess ,overweight ,clinically obese , heart disease, so much for his diet.
You can get a CT scan to check your calcification for about $170.

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LittleFella said..
Sorry Jupiter.
I forgot that this was an open forum where people discuss things and raise points of view.

Sure. But it doesn't mean openions are devoid of facts and logic. P_Mac being telling us about "flat earth", we know it is crap.

Here is an interesting article that explains some of the myths about body weight and how difficult it can be to keep the weight off:

www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html

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oliver said..
Here is an interesting article that explains some of the myths about body weight and how difficult it can be to keep the weight off:

www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html

All that that article says is that people have a tendency to regain weight. The huger the loss, the larger the rebound. That is hardly surprising. When it gets down to talking about leptin, the "anti-hunger hormone", being lower in people who have lost a lot of lard, I wonder why they haven't considered the obvious implication...that leptin in a pill would reduce hunger and help stop ex fatsos piling the kilos back on.

The problem with weight loss is that diets just suck. People diet to lose weight hit their goal and feel good. The issue with that is most diets are not sustainable. Weight loss needs to be lifestyle change. We need to reprogram our eating behaviours/habits. Unfortunately most foods at the supermarkets are processed and the so called "low fat" foods are loaded with sugar (carbs) to maintain the flavour.
The other thing is that the older we get the less we move, but continue the same food intake (eat like kings and queens). Therefore we are not burning the calories like we used to. Yep life sucks the older we get. We are meant to be wiser the older we get, but when it comes to diets, we suck and often fall for the quick weight loss fad where other people just make money from us along the way and our battle continues.
Learning about food is the best thing we can do for ourselves, learn to cook and move more, walking, cycling, swimming, SUP, surf and vodka.
Unfortunately we as a society are losing that skill, fast food is no longer only available at burger and chip shops but in just about every other shop around us i.e. grocery stores, cafes etc
Answer could be; learn about food, learn to cook and eat fresh as much as you can. The Mediterranean diet (and perhaps some Russian wadka) is possibly the better diet and sustainable.
I'm no expert but I know what works for me, although I do like my occasional spiced rum

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Mr Milk said..

All that that article says is that people have a tendency to regain weight. The huger the loss, the larger the rebound. That is hardly surprising. When it gets down to talking about leptin, the "anti-hunger hormone", being lower in people who have lost a lot of lard, I wonder why they haven't considered the obvious implication...that leptin in a pill would reduce hunger and help stop ex fatsos piling the kilos back on.

Yeah, you are right - what would Scientific American know about anything scientific? They've only been around since 1845.

If I was you I would ring em up and abuse them - tell them you are Mr. Milk, the fatso expert on Seabreeze.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-years-after-the-biggest-loser-metabolism-is-slower-and-weight-is-back-up/

So I went looking for a bit of info about leptin. It seems to be concensus that real lardarses lose leptin receptors in their brain. In fact, they have higher levels of leptin, but it doesn't do anything because the receptors are already full.

So why did you start with the NY Times article and then go to Scientific American? Why haven't you gone the whole way back to the serious articles in serious scientific journals to back up your case?

All I did was summarise what the article in the NYT said. People who get fat, then make an effort to get rid of the fat put much of it back on when they ease up on their effort. That's not a surprise

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Vince68 said..

I'm no expert but I know what works for me, although I do like my occasional spiced rum

Favorite spiced rum?

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Vince68 said..
The problem with weight loss is that diets just suck. People diet to lose weight hit their goal and feel good. The issue with that is most diets are not sustainable. Weight loss needs to be lifestyle change.

You are right about diets and dieting, Vince68. One needs to ask "Why and how did a person gets to be so obese in the first place?" It is because of poor diets and bad lifestyle choices. The trouble is that once they get their weight more or less back on track, they thought everything is honky dory, and revert back to the trash they used to eat. That probably explained why participants in those "Biggest Losers" fake TV shows tend to pile it back on fast.

Another reason I believe is that our stomach has a predetermined volume. It means you can stuff in as much as you like, but no more, because the stomach linings/muscles can sense the stretch/tension created by the food in it. That is why you feel full. However, people who constantly overeat have stretched their stomach over and over again, causing it to enlarge. It means more tucker is needed to trigger the sense of fullness. That is why some obese people needed lap-band treatment as a last resort. It is unnatural, but a sad fact of a society with more than we need, but more of the wrong things !

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Jupiter said..

You are right about diets and dieting, Vince68. One needs to ask "Why and how did a person gets to be so obese in the first place?" It is because of poor diets and bad lifestyle choices. The trouble is that once they get their weight more or less back on track, they thought everything is honky dory, and revert back to the trash they used to eat. That probably explained why participants in those "Biggest Losers" fake TV shows tend to pile it back on fast.

Another reason I believe is that our stomach has a predetermined volume. It means you can stuff in as much as you like, but no more, because the stomach linings/muscles can sense the stretch/tension created by the food in it. That is why you feel full. However, people who constantly overeat have stretched their stomach over and over again, causing it to enlarge. It means more tucker is needed to trigger the sense of fullness. That is why some obese people needed lap-band treatment as a last resort. It is unnatural, but a sad fact of a society with more than we need, but more of the wrong things !

There have been articles about the hormone that tells us we are full. Apparently skinnier people feel this sensation strongly, but the heavier you get the more damped down you feel it. So, you may not feel full, making the problem worse.

As for stomach size, I have an uncle that had stomach stapling, lost a lot of weight, but the piled it back on again. I can only think that he has adapted to the smaller stomach size and just ate more often. One of his daughters had the same procedure years before and has kept a healthy weight the whole time. In this case I think it comes down to lifestyle and moderating food intake.

My friends wife went to Tijuana and got her stomach stapled at a discount Mexican clinic , it worked for a while but eventually she put all the weight back on. I understand this is actually usually the case.

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FormulaNova said..
As for stomach size, I have an uncle that had stomach stapling, lost a lot of weight, but the piled it back on again. I can only think that he has adapted to the smaller stomach size and just ate more often.

Yes, that is why I believe that resorting to artificial and drastic means to curb your weight is wrong. But that is our affluent society are leading us into. Ever wonder why our health budget is suffering from obesity as well? It is because we spent a lot on un-natural interventions to prevent people f themselves up through uncontrolled indulgence.

Regarding your uncle's case, I believe he probably thought now he has the safety net installed, he can go on and behave like he used to. That just prove my suspicions about lifestyles and crap foods.