Are Dieticians Trying To Turn You Into A Sumo Wrestler?
April 14, 2009 by admin
A funny thing about Sumo Wrestlers is that they do NOT accept fat boys into training because they don’t think that they have the discipline to stick with the rigorous training that it takes to become a Sumo. In other words they have a specific system to take normal weight and/or thin boys and turn them into morbidly obese adults.
His moobs are bigger than that kid
The best Sumo (the upper group) eat a diet that looks like this:
*57% carbs
*16% fat (1)
The purpose of this diet is to become a Sumo wrestler (very, very fat).
The ACSM, and The ADA (American Dietetic Association) recommend the following for athletes:
*no less than 60% carbs
*15-25% fat (2)
If the purpose of this diet is to improve athletic performance, then why does it look just like the diet that the Sumo eat to get crazy fat?
The only criticism a dietician could make was that the upper group Sumo was only at 57% carbs. Maybe if we just had them eat more carbs then they wouldn’t be so fat.
Well, lets see.
The lower group of Sumo wrestlers eat a diet that looks like this:
*80% carbs
*9% fat (1)
They are the “lower group” because they weigh the same, but have even more fat, and less muscle. So, it would seem that even more carbs means even more body-fat.
The Japanese figured out that the best way to make fat people was with a high carb, low-fat diet. This was long before anyone had figured out what insulin was, or had done a controlled diet study to confirm their results. Today we have 100 years of research saying that high carb, low fat diets make fat people fatter and make normal weight people fat too, but the ADA and ACSM still promote them.
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References
1. Nishiwaza, T. I., et al. Some factors related to obesity in the Japanese sumo wrestler. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Oct: 29(10):1167-74
2. http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/ViewMiscArticle.aspx?TabId=436&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&mid=603&ItemId=520
(I normally think web sites make poor references, but USA Swimming references everything they put on their site, and the notion that the ACSM and ADA recommend low-fat, high carb diets to athletes is not really controversial in the slightest.)
Another Interesting Article! Way to keep us in the loop.
Thanks Rashad.
Do these people really know anything? No wonder there’s an obesity epidemic!
Wow, that is interesting. Recently I heard a story of a friend who lost 15 kg by just eating a lot…of meat and vegetable, not carbohydrates. On the contrary his brother gained 15kg by eating a lot of carbohydrates..
I myself tried to do the “no carbohydrates” diet to lose my weight and it worked in a way, only in the end I felt like eating the Japanese rice, and I resumed eating…Any way, thanks for the information.