The Couch Potato Coach
@BenCPCoach
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I'm Ben, the Couch Potato Coach. I'm a recovering Couch Potato helping others get off the couch and get their lives back. I lost more than 150 pounds.
San Antonio, TX
Joined August 2021
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Insulin resistance — which can result from constantly eating highly processed foods that spike our insulin — is a common thread of many chronic diseases that we need to talk about.
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The food industry starts poisoning us at the earliest possible opportunity. They exist for their own profit, not your baby's health.
The Florida Department of Health randomly bought 25 baby formulas from stores, almost 70% of the baby formulas they bought tested positive for heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury above legal limits “The Florida Department of Health has collected 24 infant formulas from
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As you start the New Year "clean" keep this in mind.
🍎 Is fruit healthy? The answer: DEPENDS 🤔 Iranian RCT in NAFLD…actual interventional data, not food-frequency noise. Randomized patients to: • <2 servings fruit/day • ≥4 servings fruit/day Same calories. Same BMI. High-fruit arm had: • ALT ~3× higher • AST ~3×
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Or, you get IN shape between New Year's and Christmas. Your choice.
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"If all cardiometabolic markers are good, like insulin, c-reactive protein and the LDL is high, it is actually one of the greatest predictors of longevity." ~ @BenBikmanPhD LDL plays a protective/reparative role. Pass it on.
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1929: American spinach industry creates Popeye. The myth: Spinach has tons of iron. The reality: 2.7mg iron per 100g, only 2-5% absorbed. That's 0.05mg usable. Beef: 2.6mg iron, 15-35% absorbed. That's 0.4-0.9mg usable. Beef provides 8-18x more usable iron. But here's the
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Good points made.
Let's talk about how long it takes for obviously wrong medical advice to change. 1950s: Doctors recommend smoking to pregnant women. "It calms the nerves. Helps with stress." Evidence of harm: Mounting. How long until doctors stop recommending it: 20+ years. 1960s: Thalidomide
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From one Veteran to fellow Veterans, Happy Veteran's Day!
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Good news about non-nutritive sweeteners!
As a metabolic scientist, I've long been pragmatic about sweeteners: my litmus test is simple—does it spike glucose or insulin? For most non-nutritive sweeteners (like aspartame, sucralose, stevia, etc.), the answer is no, based on decades of mechanistic studies showing minimal
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Fruit in its current-day form, bred to be large and super-sweet, is no longer as healthy as it once was. In this study, 2c fruit a day led to insulin resistance (root cause of obesity, diabetes, fatty liver, etc). Go easy on 🍎🍉🍊
Adults (average BMI 25) ate: 2 cups fruit daily or none for 8 wk (8-wk "washout period" - pretty good, all considered) Fruit (including bananas, apples, oranges, watermelon) 👉 ⬆️ some blood nutrients 👉BUT insulin resistance better without the fruit https://t.co/nHyu1Y3NO1
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At some point, you have to stop outsourcing your health to credentials and start listening to the evidence your body gives you every single day. Degrees don’t live in your body. Experts don’t wake up with your fatigue, your cravings, or your joint pain. Your body is constantly
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That's been my point for years. Before modern transportation and pesticides, it was pretty much impossible.
The Vegan Diet is a silly Meme... A true vegan diet wasn’t even possible before refrigerated transport, fossil fuels and modern supplements. Why? Because without animal foods, you’d die from malnutrition & deficiencies in: --Vitamin B12 (no plants provide it) --Heme iron
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A new clinical trial tested the "Planetary Health Diet," which asks us to dramatically reduce meat & dairy for the environment. People on this diet for 12 weeks saw large decreases in *essential* nutrients: retinol (-25%), thiamin (-11%), riboflavin (-16%), niacin (-16%),
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Here's the 5 Sweeteners I Approve: •Stevia •Monk Fruit •Allulose •Erythritol •Xylitol They don't spike blood sugar & they don't spike insulin. All others do both & many artificial sweeteners spike insulin. Neither you want for optimal metabolic health.
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