Increasing waistlines and the prevalence of chronic diseases mean Americans are clearly struggling to know where to go for good dietary advice, and it’s not hard to see why. Supposed health reporters at traditional news organizations have become increasingly sickened in recent years, telling us that obesity is healthy, exercise is white supremacy, and red meat is as bad as cigarettes. We have been trying to persuade the people who are Appearing in the Guardian in January, a “lifestyle and wellness reporter” wrote a column claiming that “the best dinner is a chip dinner.”
“A chip dinner is exactly what it sounds like: chips for dinner,” wrote Madeleine Ageler, a reporter for the Guardian. “Ideally, there’s also a dip. Store-bought, of course. Nobody has the energy to make pimento cheese dip on chip dinner night. Maybe even a little drink included.” Hmm. But that’s it.”
No, actually. Chip dinner is not the best dinner. Whether it’s a celebration or a fun occasion, there’s never a time when a dinner of just chips and store-bought dip is the best choice. Of course, from a health perspective, Mr. Ageler knows this. After about 500 words, she admitted that “meditation, exercise, and connecting with friends” are “healthier ways to recharge.”
“But every once in a while, you just need to shove a bag of original Cape Cod chips, sit on the sofa, and see what the good folks at The Great British Bake Off are up to,” she added.
A chip dinner isn’t about getting essential vitamins and minerals, it’s about getting some much-needed relaxing time. Nor is it something you always do. A tip dinner is a special occasion, an opportunity to celebrate the freedom that comes from not having to make food decisions or prepare meals.
But instead of a balanced dinner, we replaced tons of industrialized carbohydrates soaked in seed oil and “commercial dips,” even if it was a nightmarish mixture of incomprehensible ingredients. Let’s also examine the chain of biological events that occur when By the way, these chips (and dips) are designed to captivate consumers and turn a one-time occasion into a new lifestyle.
First, your body releases a hormone called insulin before you take the first bite, anticipating the spike in blood sugar caused by the mountain of carbohydrates. Insulin is widely understood in the context of regulating blood sugar (or more accurately, “blood sugar”) and influencing fat storage, but this important hormone is much more important. Insulin affects every cell in the body and has a major impact on how cells grow and use energy.As Dr. Benjamin Bickman outlines in his book why do we get sickOver time, our cells become insulin resistant, and the hormone begins to harm our heart, brain, liver, kidneys, skin, bones, muscles, and even reproductive organs, leading to increased obesity. For example, erectile dysfunction can be an early sign of insulin resistance. Fun things.
When the body digests carbohydrates, insulin is secreted through the bloodstream to counteract the toxic effects of excess sugar.glucose can Although used for energy in the short term, dietary fat can be used as well over the long term without the nasty metabolic side effects of high amounts of glucose. The starch in potatoes is digested as glucose, and the body secretes large amounts of insulin to combat the sugar intrusion. So even if those chips don’t contain sugar (and sometimes they don’t!), your liver can’t tell the difference. It’s essentially just a sugar bag.
A standard-sized bag of Cape Cod chips, one of the types specified by the Guardian, is about 7 to 8 ounces, which is the equivalent of five to six whole potatoes. One medium-sized potato has over 150 grams of sugar, or about 9 teaspoons of sugar in terms of blood sugar. Multiply this by 5 and you get about 45 teaspoons of sugar.
Your brain also recognizes those chips as sugar. “Chip Night” lets him indulge in a $5 dopamine hit and prepare for tomorrow night’s hangover. yes, that hangover. All of these chips are chemically engineered to be maximally addictive, right down to their crunchy texture, activating the same reward centers in the brain as drugs and alcohol. Depending on how close your “chip dinner” was to bedtime, your sleep may also have been compromised. Eating sugar right before bed will definitely disrupt your sleep.
While one night of “chip dinners” may not make your insulin resistance worse, creating a regular habit certainly does. Big food and big pharmaceutical companies rely on it. Junk food companies are built on repeat customers (we might call them “junkies”), while pharmaceutical empires are being created to treat rampant obesity and chronic disease. The case for Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk is the case for the wonder drug Ozempic, an injectable type 2 diabetes drug marketed as an anti-obesity drug with a parody of his 1975 jingle “Magic” by the band Pilot. “Rebuilding the economy.” I just replaced “magic” with “ozempic,” so you know what I mean. A cheerful tune of “Oh!” oh! oh! Ozempic! ” became an anthem selling a cure for a preventable problem for which there was already a cure.
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The next step in the nacho dinner’s digestive journey leads us out of the bathroom. A carbohydrate-filled (sugar)-laden dinner leaves your gut microbiome hungry because it doesn’t contain any real fiber, which helps your body absorb the few nutrients that are actually available. Approximately 95 percent of the body’s serotonin, a neurotransmitter important in regulating happiness and mood, is produced in the gut. You can starve your gut, but you’ll also starve your sanity.
A real “health reporter” would stop the nonsense about “chips dinner” being the “best dinner” in the name of self-care. The result of the habit is that addicts remain chronically overweight, sick, and depressed. But here’s the consensus. We all need to take care of ourselves as we think we should because we all matter.
