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Healthy after all?
Daily Workouts: 0500, 0600, 1630
For time:
100 Inverted burpees
Post total time to comments.
Scoreboard:
| Drake | 15:48 |
| Damon | 16:26 |
| Cooke | 18:48 |
| Vic | 17:11 |
| Mackey | 16:02 |
| Lucy | 18:37 |
| Crystal | 20:21 |
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Listen to Gary Taubes
| Since the early 1980s America has experienced an obesity epidemic & a diabetes epidemic. Worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, over 1 billion adults are overweight and over 300 million are obese. Obesity is directly linked to many forms of cancer, asthma, sleep apnoea, osteoarthritis, neurodegeneration, gall bladder disease, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and stroke (all of which have been termed “diseases of modern civilization”), making it clear that whatever has been making us fat also makes us sick. These concepts are explored by Gary Taubes, a journalist educated at Harvard, Stanford and Colombia University. He has rocked the world (though it might be new to you) since his article “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat,” which was published in Science in March of 2001, and in 2002 his cover story in New York Times Magazine which led to a $700,000 book advance and Good Calories, Bad Calories, his product, in 2007. Webcasts are available of lectures he gave at Berkley, Stevens Institute of Technology, and just a couple weeks ago (April 15) at the University of Washington in Seattle, in which he promotes concepts from his book. The lectures are over an hour in length, but you can get a good feel for the depth and quality of his research. If you buy any book concerning nutrition or health – let it be Good Calories, Bad Calories. The book has two main messages: 1) The conventional wisdom on fat versus carbohydrates is based mainly on slim-to-nonexistent evidence established by scientists who were biased and routinely ignored counterevidence 2) Carbohydrates are largely responsible for obesity and many serious diseases (some of which are listed above).
Conventional wisdom that says “overweight is the result of caloric imbalance (too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed) and is mediated by genetics and health” (US Surgeon General, 2008) is based exclusively on a hypothesis. Gary Taubes says this hypothesis is not only wrong, it is actually NONSENSE. He says no one has ever bothered to look to see if they can find counter-examples to disprove the hypothesis, and that is the reason that now there is an obesity and diabetes epidemic. Gary Taubes then proceeds to give 600+ journal articles to back up his assertion. I believe that the idea that obesity might NOT be a moral issue brought about by gluttony and slothfulness is the hardest for folks to assimilate. One thing is nearly certain: you will not be able to read Gary Taubes’ book, or hear him lecture, without adjusting your diet accordingly – at the very least, you will lie awake in bed agonizing over it. |
ASRX’d 17:11 Buck Inverted Furpees
16:02
As RX’d 18:48