Re: BBC Have Your Say

in message <MPG.2181343cb02a1dc698b202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Morley
('nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:

In article <5nohu1Fjce2rU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Clinch
p.j.clinch@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Martin Dann wrote:

As some dietitians say, eat little often.

Depends on the person, both physiologically and psychologically, IME.

IMHO the reason there are so many different diets is that different
people respond better and worse to the fuel-management systems each one
uses. If I tried to eat like Roos outside of main meals I'd be a
balloon and if she tried to eat like me she'd be alternately ill from
over-eating and then dysfunctional from lack of readily available
energy... As with so many things, horses for courses.

I wonder how much of that is a gender thing. We evolved as hunter
gatherers, where the females would collect roots and berries all day
snacking as they went, while the males would go off hunting for days at
a time only eating when they made a kill.

It also depends on age. I hit six foot three at age fifteen, but didn't get
to nine stone until I was thirty, and didn't hit ten until I was forty -
and that despite a very healthy appetite all my days. Now, in my fifties,
it's a struggle to keep my weight under thirteen stone, and I certainly
can't any longer eat what I like when I like. I don't think the amount of
exercise I take has changed radically over that time, but some time in my
early forties my metabolism did change quite dramatically. I see a lot of
other people, too, suddenly putting on weight in middle age - so if you're
not yet forty, watch out!

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