{"id":9051,"date":"2011-06-25T04:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2011-06-25T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T09:50:33","slug":"i-think-thermodynamics-still-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9051","title":{"rendered":"I Think Thermodynamics Still Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/potatoes-bad-nuts-good-for-staying-slim-harvard-study-finds\/2011\/06\/17\/AGRWmIgH_story.html?tid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost&amp;sub=AR\">Potatoes bad, nuts good for staying slim, Harvard study finds<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The findings add to the growing body of evidence that getting heavier is not just a matter of \u201ccalories in, calories out,\u201d and that the mantra: \u201cEat less and exercise more\u201d is far too simplistic. Although calories remain crucial, some foods clearly cause people to put on more weight than others, perhaps because of their chemical makeup and how our bodies process them. This understanding may help explain the dizzying, often seemingly contradictory nutritional advice from one dietary study to the next.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every time I read a study where they imply that energy isn&#8217;t conserved, it seems that they sneak in a caveat, like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the study did not evaluate why potatoes would be particularly fattening, other research shows that starches and refined carbohydrates such as potatoes cause blood sugar and insulin to surge, which makes people feel less satisfied and eat more as a result, Mozaffarian said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eating more = more calories consumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potatoes bad, nuts good for staying slim, Harvard study finds The findings add to the growing body of evidence that getting heavier is not just a matter of \u201ccalories in, calories out,\u201d and that the mantra: \u201cEat less and exercise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-journalism","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}