crox - you should change your name to "sucker". It is not difficult to figure out where the term came from. And, it is considered derogatory.
Brah, you seem to equate your posted video of some guy's testimony about eating unlimited carbs and its consquential weight gain as an empirical study. He was not under any observation. It's simply what he purports. What heuristic are you using to determine what he claims is true? Who is the real sucker?
Conversely, the real science (not the cover-up that's currently the status quo) has spoken that refined sugar and white rice cures diabetes as long as the person cuts out fats & oils in his diet. The medical journals are referenced in the OP.
PG says:
And, st paul uses athletic references because he was a roman citizen living in the roman empire as the apostle of the gentiles, which glorified sport. You have to use examples your subject can relate to. St augustine wrote extensively about roman paganism, and the church has even harnassed paganism do a degree out of every culture. But, that does not mean the church is promoting paganism.
St. Paul is not going to use an activity that's inherently bad or "childish" (as +Sanborn calls it) as an analogy for the faithful endeavoring to get to Heaven. Your analysis is wrong, and your argument is illogical.
PG says:
You speak of gradualism, but yet you promote foods characteristic highs and lows. No gradualism will occur there. That is a contradiction.
The gradualism shouldn't only be exercise but, also, intake of refined sugar and other carbs. Your strawman is that I advocate huge consumption of sugar for the novice. Wrong.
Also, you fail to realize that the source of the diabetic's problem isn't sugar/carbs, rather it's his unwillingness to engage in exercise for reasons of "discomfort" (laziness) or other rationalizations. Exercise cures diabetes. Sugar is the primary fuel source for exercise, and it increases sensitivity to insulin. It's a matter of choice. Remain embedded in lethargy and the status quo health field that wants to keep you sick and selling you their diabetes medicine, or cure it by getting off your ass and exercising, and eating carbs while cutting out fat, oils & excess animal protein.
You simply can't see the forest for the trees; and even the details you use are based off a wrong premise.
PG says:
And, I can tell you. He (Dr. McDougall) does not promote consuming refined starch or a diet emphasizing fruit. .... Here is dr. mcdgouall on a fruit emphasized diet.
Another strawman argument. I never said Dr. McDougall advocates a sole fruitarian diet. He advocates a CARBOHYDRATE diet, and that includes not only fruits but, also, non-fruits with sugars, while cutting out fats, oils and animal protein.
And he does, indeed, promote consuming refined sugars & white rice (along with other carbs). He speaks it himself in the video in the McDougall link that I posted twice on this thread. However, he simply promotes brown rice more than white rice.