Fabio Almada

“Fat doesn’t make you fat; carbohydrates make you fat.”
― Richard Jacoby, Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health

“What causes cardiovascular disease is the sugar and high-fructose corn syrup in your diet. As”
― Richard Jacoby, Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health

“CALORIES IN, Calories Out plan for weight loss assumes that we have conscious control over what we eat. But this belief ignores the extremely powerful effect of the body’s hormonal state. The defining characteristic of the human body is homeostasis, or adaptation to change. Our body deals with an ever-changing environment. In response, the body makes adjustments to minimize the effects of such changes and return to its original condition. And so it is, when the body starts to lose weight. There are two major adaptations to caloric reduction. The first change, as we have seen, is a dramatic reduction in total energy”
― Jason Fung, The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

“common table sugar, or sucrose, is a carbohydrate made up of two simple sugars, fructose and glucose. All plants produce sucrose, but a few contain very large quantities. Natives in the land now called New Guinea, the massive island north of Australia, discovered a tropical grass that came to be known as sugarcane, perhaps around 8000 BC. The sweet-tasting stalks were eventually carried to other lands, including India, where juices pressed from sugarcane were first boiled to produce crystals. Darius”
― Richard J. Johnson, The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat and Sick