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Never accept dietary advice from the Nationals. Its leader, Barnaby Joyce, said on Wednesday the best solution for overweight was self-control. We needed to "stop eating so much and do a bit of exercise".
His colleague, David Gillespie, who is a former doctor, recommended what he called the ELF diet: "Eat Less Food". Alongside it was the DME program: "Do More Exercise".
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Personal responsibility, not the Australian Tax Office, should determine how much sugar Australians consume, says Barnaby Joyce.
As advice for losing weight, it's about as useful as the standard advice for fixing a budget: spend less and earn more.
The Nationals, along with their partners the Liberals, have shown themselves to be incapable to following it when it comes to their federal budget. Most real-life overweight Australians are incapable of following it when it comes to weight.
In part that's because of the role of sugar in regulating how much we want to eat and how much we feel able to exercise.
Not to acknowledge this, because they don't want a tax on soft drinks, makes their advice worse than useless - it makes it cruel.
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Ordinary sugar is half glucose and half fructose. When it enters our bodies dissolved in water, the glucose triggers a surge of insulin that packs fatty acids into fat cells and temporarily prevents them getting out. The fructose helps build insulin resistance and also resistance to leptin, the chemical messenger that turns off the feeling of hunger. The greater our exposure to fructose, the longer we feel hungry and the more insulin we produce, locking up fat in fat cells.
While it's locked up we feel weak; unable to exercise, and often hungry, because we are temporarily short on energy. Sugar is more than just one of those substances we would eat less of if only we had self-control. It's one of those substances that robs us of self-control.
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