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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/04/2022 00:45, billW wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">According to Susie Bonds, an
apparently well-known nutritionist, the following are
myths:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">1 - carbs are fattening; same
calorie count as proteins per weight</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">2 - avoid fruit because of the
sugar; the sugars are different from table sugar and added
sugars</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">3 - avoid anything white; mostly
true, though for bread, pasta and rice but don't shun
potatoes onions, apples, milk, yogurt, bananas,
cauliflower</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">4 - avoid wheat because of the
gluten; only those who are allergic will benefit from
avoiding wheat</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">5 - avoid white sugar; all
sugars convert to glucose in the body</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">6 - don't eat carbs late in the
day; no studies support this</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">I suspect that low carb diets
work because people eat too many bad carbs; i.e. we will
tend to overeat carbs where we wouldn't with proteins.
Low fat diets went out of style because of studies. So -
eat a balanced diet. How retro. bill w</div>
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Never heard of Suzie Bonds, but that's not really surprising. All of
those points are so simplistic as to be almost worthless, not to
mention that most of them are just plain wrong, together with wrong
or irrelevant reasons why they are 'myths'.<br>
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The whole thing is silly, really, not even worth going through point
by point to refute them, they should be obvious. I expect Suzie
Bonds is trying to sell a book to people gullible enough to believe
what she says, contradictions and all, without even thinking about
it.<br>
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Ben<br>
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