Sven Vandenberghe
4 min readOct 26, 2021

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Promoting misinformation? By free writing i don't mean inventing. It just means that this is based on certain experience and understandings, books... Without a science tag attached to it.

I like science and history and read numerous studies. but also understand that history is not always 100% well understood and science comes later... So it's not always to be taken for granted. (anyways i think this is irrelevant for this whole explanation).

Look, you can state what you want here, I never said to over consume anything, And sorry but if you have a higher activity level you are well off consuming a bit of a higher amount of calories what your body requires.

Your explanation is correct but my point was merely that people with overweight benefit from reducing fat intake which will reduce calories.(which in those people is most likely already to high) when this has been done, they could benefit from the fact to fill their required daily needs(when in calorie deficit) with carbs because it gives them a larger portion of food than if you would consume fat.

Whether that is fat or carbs is up to you but according to your own words you wouldn't even be able to when you're in need because you said that it isn't possible to over consume fat. that's ridiculous.

Most people can't control their calories well because they over consume fat, and indeed this is no science, just check the packages of everything you eat.

Most of it will contain a high amount of fat which increases the calorie count easy)The last twenty years, carbohydrate consumption has dropped while the obesity rate has continued to increase..And in terms of health this is the crucial factor because the higher BMI is directly or indirectly correlated with numerous diseases.

Higher fat = Higher calorie count = Higher BMI = Obesity, CV diseases... Misinformation?

Furthermore, there is no problem filling up the rest of your daily calorie needs with carbohydrates after you get a reasonable or required amount of fat (to absorb your vitamins) and protein. And in this case i also don't call this misinformation. Extremely low levels of fat aren't ideal too.

Another approach could be to fill your gut with vegetables (fibers) which will increase the levels of Leptin and make you feel satisfied and full. Add this to the fact that they too contain lower calorie counts.

"Earn your carbs" Charles R. Poliquin

Charles R. Poliqiun Charles was a well known strength coach who wasn't a big fan of carbohydrates either but still, unless you need them.. I would also never tell anyone to over consume carbohydrates when their activity level is too low.

Carbs or fat make you fat, but the overconsumption of daily calorie does. Something which everyone largely understands. What i was trying to tell throughout my post, is that you could reduce your calories (which create overweight by reducing the amount of fat you eat) Why? Because of the calorie count, if you want to consume food, you're better off eating a higher portion of carbohydrates to fill your calorie requirements.

There are certain people who still think that food sources like:

Pizza, Burgers, french fries, cookies, ice cream..Contain a large portion of carbohydrates. While in fact they all contain a high rate of fat which induces overconsumption of calories more easily than consuming carbohydrates. (So if you like to eat but want to reduce or maintain weight you could eat a bigger amount of carbs for the same portion of fat.)

Steven i have respect for what you say here, but i don't think I fooled people with misinformation. We don't die from eating carbohydrates. Are there better food sources? Yes there are. But is a high fat diet the way to go? If that works for you, yes. Is fat a major contributor to obesity? Yes. And therefore reducing fat and not being afraid to consume some carbohydrates to reduce or maintain daily calorie requirements aren't bad in my opinion.

About the insulin response preference, i don't fully agree I saw it a couple of years back, a study which was done by Jackob wilson @themusclephd (on instagram) I can't tell where exactly to recall, he has too much information available. It is there somewhere from a while back.

I'm serious; there is a difference in response, minor but still. In this study (the only thing which I could find at the moment now, shows that the response of insulin in rice for instance is lower than the other carbohydrate source...) Before I thought the same as what you lined out here.

An extremely high carbohydrate-fat ratio improves insulin sensitivity whereas more moderate changes (40-60% carbohydrate) produce less convincing results.

But then we talk about over consuming..

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8116551/#:~:text=The%20role%20of%20the%20diet,carbohydrate)%20produce%20less%20convincing%20results.

I will continue to improve my writing if i write some more posts concerning weight reduction and health, in the next posts and do a better job at expressing myself. I have no means to tell worthless information. Thanks.

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Sven Vandenberghe
Sven Vandenberghe

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