HI,

I think that reading the comments below the The Carbohydrate
Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination blog post is useful.

Some points that came to mind reading the post:

ASAIK US figures (or any other country for that matter) are that not
reliable when it comes to deciding what people were eating at any
particular time - what these figures may tell us is roughly what some
sectors of the economy produced or sold at that time - very roughly.
So I think that trying to discern the average dietary proportions of
carbs, fat, protein from them is problematic.

The most useful part of the blog for me was the input by ItsTheWooo2 -
makes much more sense to me than the blog itself. So if people here
skipped the comments, scroll down for interesting reading.

Re: ... concede that Chinese have their host of health issues..... not
fat .... I live in Hong Kong and there are plenty of overweight
chinese - sometime ethnically cast in that role - Hakka for example
appear to generally carry more body fat for their frame than the
average Cantonese - I have it on good authority that many modern Hong
Kong Girls fearfully await the coming of 'the rice belly':-)

TANSTAAFL

So for me the blog post was not as great or as well presented as
suggested - the stuff about leptin I've seen before but presented
better.

I'm left feeling that again someone is writing about the intricacies
of some chemical interactions without zooming out sometimes to see how
they fit in the context of the whole functioning human. My vote for
the best part to read is with ItsTheWooo2.

Cheers

Neil
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Neil C Timms