Fascinating (or not so fascinating?) Facts About Belly Fact

Note:  The blogger received the following slides sometime ago and shared with a number of friends for reference. He received a ‘nasty’ comment from the Great Sifu Dr. JB Lim as reproduced below the slides.

From: ju boo lim 

Date: Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:01 PM

Sorry.

I have no idea of this method of reducing pot belly. There was no explanation how it works, no study done, no research quoted, no reference of journal of the paper published of this method, nothing...nothing, absolutely nothing just empty claims. It was not even a hypothesis or a theory let alone based on any evidence-based study. If I were to comment on something that is empty, I would be just like an empty gong making empty sounds as this chap.

For instance, this chap says "colorie counting is not effective".  Just ask him if he does not eat (calories) for weeks, would he not be reduced to a skeleton? Ask him if he has ever heard of a disease called "marasmus" or another condition called "kwashiorkor" especially in children or marasmic-kwashiorkor even in adults due to very severe shortage of calories, proteins or both from malnutrition. 

Of course he can see "pot-belly" marasmus too, but this "pot-belly" is due to water retention and oedema and not fat accumulation in the belly. Once you provide adequate calorie and protein to a child or any sufferer of these two nutritional diseases, within days the “potty-belly” disappears completely.  Does this NUT know about this? I doubt. He is talking the opposite. 

He also said green tea helps reduce tummy belly but he did not explain or tell how? I think he is a NUT. If he had said green tea has a very high content of polyphenols such as flavonoids and a group of substances called “catechins”, which act as  powerful antioxidants that can quench free radicals and hence is cancer-protective, he makes some sense in his claims, but to say that green tea reduces pot belly without considering the amount of excessive caloric intake,  I think he is a NUT. 

We get all these BOGUS nutritionists and health freaks writing all sorts of health and medical claims in the Internet and circulating to deceive others.

Unfortunately you were one of the victims. 

regards

jb