Sure but couldn't a person just serve smaller portions? Like if your kid is getting fat just take what your normally serve him and throw part of it in the trash (or refrigerator). If he's still getting fat take a bigger part from it next week and so on. I don't understand how this technique could elude anyone rich or poor.
And leave a child to suffer from the many thoroughly documented problems of obesity?
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Your proposal is that you should keep stuffing a fat kid with unhealthy food because he wants more? Plenty of poor people living in food deserts manage to raise kids of a healthy weight.
I can’t imagine the astounding disconnect it would take for someone to post a comment like that.
I'm limited to empty calories because of money and digestion/insulin-spiking reasons. Because the latter is hard, I went keto again since yesterday, and literally starve my body into accepting ketogenesis and glucogenesis as the primary energy pathways for the brain cells.
The hard part is a near total shunning of (metabolically useful) carbohydrates. This is however rewarded by a near total lack of importance regarding meal timing. Aminoacids and electrolytes are the only macronutrients I have to balance needs with intake on a timescale of less than a week. After that there are vitamins, and calories in the shape of triglycerides only need to balance enough to prevent structural fat from being fed to brain and muscles and to prevent irreversible tissue stretching from gaining weight too fast (and practically also to ensure jeans etc. fit properly).
>you do realize that the body feels satiated not by calories but by quantity?
Not really. It's common sense that your body can tell the difference between a pound of boiled cabbage and a pound of steak. You're satiated when you have all the nutrients you need - calories, yes, but also fats and other essentials. If the food you eat is deficient in some nutrients, you might eat more of it to compensate.
Anecdotally, if I make a vegetarian chili, and forget to fortify it with some form of fat, I can eat two whole plates of it and feel bloated but unsatisfied.
