Not so.

Digestion is complex and different combinations of nutrients contained in various foods are not digested involving the same processes.
The rate of conversion of carbohydrates unto blood glucose os regulated by a complex mix of interaction of nutrients being digested at that time. The composition of gut bacteria present is also affected by overall diet as well as recent digestive activity.

There is a vast amount of information on this aspect of carbohydrate conversion, the regulating by products and the body’s use of the digested nutrients. The gut can be damaged by diet and the immune system responses compromised.

Diabetes is just one of many conditions arising coupled with a damaged immune response.

You need carbs but unrefined forms combined with a wide range of other nutrients as found in an unprocessed variety of fruit and veges should provide a healthy base for nutrition.

Contrary to NZ beef and lamb propaganda, you need little protein and a variety of plants can provide that easily.

Don’t become a statistic.

https://www.rt.com/news/350259-india-fat-tax-junk-food/

There is so much false information about health and food. Reductionism where small aspects of research findings are applied across the board, leading to utter nonsense being reported to the public, usually to support a commercial activity for profit, not health.

Research has to be held to account, peer reviewed by independent agencies without commercial connections, and based on sound models. Our best brains are penalised currently if they speak out about corporate bastardisation of health reporting.

Fads and fancies are dime a dozen and can spread like wildfire without any checking and cross checking being done by the message carriers.

Whole foods plant based appears to be the sound basis for a planned lifestyle along with regular exercise and variety, but excluding all that processed junk, commercial products, supplements along with ecocides added hormones and most imported crap.

The largest block of health research over 30 – 40 years involving hundreds of millions, point clearly to a simple way forward but commercial concerns defy common sense with marketing, advertising and distribution of diet fare that accompanies dire statistics consequent of a western diet.

As US based killer corporates expand into Asia plying their toxic marketing and product, we see Asian health statistics change to follow Western patterns. Fonterra joins the clan distributing “goods” that accompany worsening health outcomes.

John Key is a shill for this murderous mob and he is rewarded well.

Self reliance is pretty simple but no attempt to foster self reliance and locally grown healthy foods and goods is seen from this corporate fostering govt. A world wide wasteful and destructive chain of food distribution defies common sense, all for corporate profit and paid for with human lives.

The investor state knows no bounds for havoc.

Call it ethics if you like but ACC is no substitute for a tax funded health system. This corporate nest egg awaiting privatisation by design, is not a servant of NZ people, it fights them.

The people do have power but are very vulnerable to a plethora of spin and lies carefully supplied to defeat cohesion and common good.

Crush the bankers who are at the heart of the deception for private profit at public expense. The culture needs changing.

The latest thrust is irrigation using public money and govt resources to set up private proxy water ownership. The privatisation bit are left out of public discussion at all stages yet it is the most fundamental concern for our future control of our assets.

If punitive taxation worked to reduce cigarette smoking, it’ll sure as hell work for other unhealthy products that big businesses like to peddle.

I brought up two kids on my own in the 80s and 90s while working and always cooked. Fast foods were, and still are, a very occasional treat.It’s a matter of getting organised.

And don’t think for a moment life has to end without the processed junk – you will start to really recognise true taste in your food and you will work for longer on less as it takes longer to digest. Once the tummy recognises you are not going to browse all day on junk between meals you are then on the home stretch.

Another excellent reason is why be persuaded to give the manufacturers your hard earned cash just to ingest food that isn’t really food at all – its the biggest con of the modern age – eat what Granny put on the table – it can be done, this household manages it easily.

Don’t come to me and say “not everybody is smug and self satisfied as you to be able to do it” – we all can do it, just some are more prepared to pass their money over to money grubbing junk food manufacturers and I am not.

Mike The Left, we heard it as well. The dietician woman left us none-the-wiser, I’m afraid. Her comments were so unspecific that they were useless as practical suggestions. I think Kathryn Ryan was sounding exasperated as well.

+1 Bert!