Your thoughts on this statement??

[Jack steel]

I am playing devils advocate. I do have very different views about nutrition but this one I'm just trying to get a good explanation. That's is a good example though (diabetics, etc) it's just hard for me to see what really works because I can't gain fat if you put a gun to my head. So eating sugar, fat, anything I want whenever I want doesn't show me the truth about what does what.

 

[Lighter Fighter]

You guys do know that when you combine protein with any carb it will lower the gi significantly unless you only eat the carbs, so its irrelevant if its white bread or oats, the reason i eat typical bb diet like oats, brown rice sweet potatoe is because of the fiber, nutritional value and they're filling not because of the gi, other than that it dont make a fuck off a difference if you eat white rice or brown rice.
I guess op follow the typical iifym diet and doing a good job at it just by looking at his pic. I cant do it because if i eat one potatoe chips i'll eat the whole bag, if you can control it its all good..

 

[Jack steel]

Lol I do eat the whole bag! Salt n vinegar mmm. Thanks for that info bro, good to know!

 

[Labtec70]

I'm new to posting on this site but have read loads of stuff on the forum for many months. There's some really interesting debates, questions, and answers going on and I reckon by what I've seen on here most of the members, ladies and gents, probably know more about the subject of nutrition/aas/training than most professionals; including GP's, primary care physicians, and personal trainers, health promoters, you get the picture. I've got a few questions of my own I'd like some help with too and will re-post elsewhere.

Anyway, the question/quote jack puts over is one everyone could mull over forever. Personally speaking, I think that while the quote holds a lot of generalised truth, the human body is a bit more complex than that, and as individuals we all react differently to whole foods and junk. The truth in the quote is in the 75% whole foods. So the quoter is saying the other 25% doesn't need to be from totally clean, whole foods and brown this, brown that, so long as the macro proportions are consistent with the rest of the diet, or the other 75%. Where I disagree with the quote is where it says, "the small intestine doesn't know the difference between dirty and bad foods".

Firstly, while most food is abosorped in the small intestine, not all is. Some carbohydrates and macros are absorped by the large intestine and stomach. Jack and Lighter Fighter I think hit the nail on the head with the fact that the GI values of foods are not all the same...some spike and others roll. Another example is the fact that even though the body doesn't label foods bad or good, the way it absorbs, processes, and metabolises a substance is still dependent on whether it is good or bad. Carbs packed with simple sugars can affect individuals differently; one person may be tolerant of it and the person could experience the Brad Pitts, flu like symptoms, and generally feel crap. I think it's called "Dumping Syndrome". This may account for that awful bloating feeling when someone eats too much sugary food because high blood levels of sugars like glucose, fructose, and to some extent galactose, makes the body's water in the tissues and blood divert in to the intestines, causing an over full and bloated look and feeling.

So I think the statement is true overall but it is the context and intepretation of the 25% part that is for contention.