On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:29:42 -0500, Tracy Bradley <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:
> Geoff sez:
>
>> For example it's been suggested by many scientists  that highly  
>> processed foods are a key factor behind obesity so there's no reason to  
>> suppose that less-heavily processed foods such as boiled grassfed  
>> meats  don't also cause obesity in a similiar fashion.
>
> Why assume it's the fact they they are 'processed' as opposed to what  
> they actually consist of, ingredient-wise? Speaking anecdotally, I've  
> lost 30lbs eating cooked meat and fat (and previously, cooked veg) and I  
> know, personally, many others who have done so as well.

I lost about 50 lbs, and there are *lots* of people who lose weight eating  
cooked food.

> Scientifically, one can go back 100 years or so and see the results of a  
> diet of cooked meats, fats, veg (and even dairy) on obese people. I  
> don't doubt that processed foods are a culprit in obesity, but it seems  
> (from the evidence we have) that it's isn't the cooked part that's the  
> problem, it's what those foods consist of -- wheat and other grains,  
> vegetable oils, etc etc and so forth.

100 years ago, obesity wasn't near the problem it is today, and they  
cooked their food.  They also worked a lot more physically, and ate a  
whole lot less sugar and white flour.  They did eat grains, just grains  
that weren't processed much more than grinding and fermenting  
(sourdough).  I don't think grains themselves cause obesity, though  
overconsumption of them, particularly in the form of white flour and corn  
syrup, does.

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   Robert Kesterson
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