Unbelievable quality J. Wonder if we can tie this up somehow with our evolutionary past.

About the time of the day experiment, it reminds me of an older article from here in which it's mentioned that the composition of your breakfast affects your metabolism for the rest of the day.

The cops in the study ate the same amount of carbs,yet they ate more of them at dinner, so it's likely their first meal was more skewed in favor of fat and proteins than the control, which might have an effect on how they process the other meals and the bulk of their carbs, perhaps even lowering the spike they'd cause. It also helps to explain why they were less hungry as well as some of their extra weight loss if they were burning more of their own fat.

Great post (though it will be a while before I forgive you for the sofa photograph.)

I'm slowly collating anecdotal evidence of mass over-feeding of meat/fat and it's effects, or lack thereof. Available here.

i have one thing to say (other than this is awesome)
Density of information!

will now read all of the studies linked throughout the day.

the powdered mouse chow is very interesting stuff too

Great stuff!

the results of the "powdered" diet are fascinating. When the powder is Vitamin D depleting whole wheat flour, and people spend their time indoors, the results go beyond just obesity.

I would expect similar results from "liquid" food - i.e. sugary drinks. Milk though, doesn't seem to have this effect, though I haven't seen (and haven't looked) for any mice type studies on that.

These results will not be news to factory farmers, who know that feeding ground up cornmeal and the like causes faster weight gain in chickens, pigs and cows than whole grain, which itself is more fattening than grass.

Finally, add in the fact the "flour", especially whole grain flour, contains polyunsaturated oils that oxidise rapidly after grinding, and even more so with dry, high temperature cooking, and we start to promote not just obesity, but also inflammation.

Even the old master, Weston Price, observed that for whole grains to have their nutritional benefit, they had to be either eaten as whole grains, or ground and consumed immediately. This never happens today.

I think the effects of powdering apply to where the nutrients would normally be held in a matrix and/or in microscopic granule form as it is the case for starches in seeds and tubers.Powdering and refining in this case destroys the matrix and removes many nutrients. It does improve digestibility but with negative consequences in terms of the fattening power of powdered foods, although I don't think we know yet exactly how this works. In the case of Whey powdering is achieved by dehydration i.e. selective removal of the water content which is a very different process from processing cereals for example moreover whey is high in protein rather than carbs and this could be an important differences also and help explain its slimming effects.

love it J!
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