The U.N. should ban frankfurter.

I will continue to refute Con's arguments. "There are three macro nutrients. and they are fat, protein and carbs." Con Correct. "The last is not actually good for you." Con Bare assertion. "Carbs are converted into glucose and are stored as adipose tissue (fat) on your body; the process requires insulin which is tissue damaging." Con No outside sources backing up your statement. "The simplest carbohydrate is glucose. Glucose, also called "blood sugar" and "dextrose," flows in the bloodstream so that it is available to every cell in your body. Your cells absorb glucose and convert it into energy to drive the cell. Specifically, a set of chemical reactions on glucose creates ATP (adenosine triphosphate), and a phosphate bond in ATP powers most of the machinery in any human cell." [1] "glucose is the essential energy source for your body" [1] Glucose is needed by the cells to create ATP energy. Glucose is essential to your body. As for fat, any excess amount of calories will be stored as fat. Whether the source of the calorie be protein, carbohydrates, or fat. "Your body converts energy not used immediately into triglycerides, which are the chemical form of fat that is stored in your body and in foods. Although dietary fats take the form of triglycerides in food and in your body, calories from carbohydrates and proteins are also converted to triglycerides for storage." [2] "When a person consumes more calories than the energy they use, the body stores the extra calories in fat cells (lipocytes)." [3] "Consuming extra calories results in an accumulation of stored body fat and weight gain. This is true whether the excess calories come from protein, fat, carbohydrate, or alcohol." [4]. I have proven that excess calories are stored as fat regardless of the macronutrient they come from. Therefore, excess fat and protein contribute to obesity just as much as excess carbohydrates. "The best thing to eat is fat and protein," Con Bare assertion. "and meat is both of these things. But it also contains vital micro nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals." Con Most foods contain micro nutrients. Vegetables and fruits contain lots of micro nutrients. Kale and collards have 5 star ratings on nutritiondata.com [5] and [6]. As you can see kale and collards are awesome foods to eat teeming with micronutrients. " Meat, especially that of herbivores, and when cooked lightly (blood rare steaks, for example) is a complete food." Con Bare assertion and non sequitur. I have no idea what you mean by complete food. "It has everything you need flourish. It is not only better than starvation, it is better than any other food available." Con By it I assume steak, again no outside sources. Argument is based upon previous arguments which fall short. "Fiber is not even good for you. Mark's daily apple has a particular cogent critique. You can't even digest it. Why exactly do I want to scrape up my insides? If I'm that desperate to take a dump, I'll drink a cup of coffee thanks." Con There are plenty of peer reviewed sources stating the health benefits of fiber. "Dietary fiber intake provides many health benefits. However, average fiber intakes for US children and adults are less than half of the recommended levels. Individuals with high intakes of dietary fiber appear to be at significantly lower risk for developing coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and certain gastrointestinal diseases. " [7]. "The health benefits of dietary fiber have long been appreciated. Higher intakes of dietary fiber are linked to less cardiovascular disease and fiber plays a role in gut health" [8]. I have provided two peer reviewed sources stating the health benefits of fiber. "As for 'beta-carotene' (the vegetable pre-cursor to vitamin a) I will see your beta-carotene, and raise you beef liver." Con I assume you are making the claim that beef liver is better for you than vegetables. Yet, there is nothing to back up this claim except a link. In the link there is this claim "First, vitamin A is only found in animal foods. It"s a myth that plant foods are high in this nutrient." [8]. Yet if you look at Kale there is plenty of vitamin A "10302IU 206%" [5]. "Because of these three important factors, we must get our vitamin A from animal sources to avoid the risk of low levels. The best sources are meats, including liver, beef, chicken and turkey, dairy, especially cheese and butter, and egg yolks. " [8]. The link does make the claim that liver and beef are better sources of vitamin A. Let's fact check this and see if vegan suffers from vitamin A deficiency. If you look at this fitday.com article you will see no mention of vitamin A deficiency. [9] Since the philmaffetone.com [8] website cites no sources, this seems like a falsehood. "The health benefits of anti-oxidants have been exaggerated." Con Bare assertion. "You are really going to regurgitate these whole 'war on fat' myths?" Con Bare assertion. "Then why has the war on fat and the high carb diets which accompanied it coincided with rapidly increasing obesity rates? It's just one big fat coincidence?" Con There are many confounding factors. For example its common knowledge that soda is both high in carbs and bad for your health. I wouldn't exactly call instant oatmeal a health food and it must be high in carbohydrates since oats are a grain. I wouldn't exactly call your average trans fat baked good as healthy. Between soda, convenience foods, and trans fat laced baked goods all high in carbohydrates yet unhealthy for other reasons its clear that carbohydrates are not the culprit. "An explorer named Vilhjalmur Stefansson lived with the inuit for a year. The tribe he was with ate a diet of rare, fatty, red meat. They all had perfect cardiovascular health." Con There are other confounding factors like exercise and lack of sedentary behavior compared to the average American in a tribe. Your link is 191 pages, so Con will have to quote the relevant parts. "Sedentary behavior may moderate the relationship between physical activity and overweight." [9]. "It is impossible to eat too much fat, if you eat more than your body can use it simply gets excreted. There is no mechanism for dietary fat to be stored as fat. " Con I proved earlier in this round that dietary fat is stored as fat just like the other two macro nutrients. As for too much fat your body also stores the fat as intramyocelluar lipds as I proved in round 3. "Insulin resistance has been associated with the accumulation of fat within skeletal muscle fibers as intramyocellular lipid (IMCL)." [4] "Intramyocellular lipid content is lower with a low-fat diet than with high-fat diets" [5] "our bodies are very well adapted to it." Con Dr. Christina Warinner states otherwise in her video [10]. ""human has no known anatomical, physiological, or genetic adaptations to meat consumption"." [11]. "What you have to watch out for are processed foods" Con Agreed, processed foods like soda, trans fat, dairy and meat found in the supermarket are the problem. Think about meat for example, it takes a lot of processing to turn a living chicken into a chicken nugget. There is so many differences between the two. Instead eat whole raw fruit and veggies. These are the least processed foods you can find. "Stick to fat and protein and you will lose weight, feel incredible and be healthy." Con Bare assertion. Summary Con seems to bent on demonizing carbohydrates. That somehow carbohydrates contribute to weight gain, but the other macro nutrients fat and protein don't. I have proven over and over again that high fat diets are dangerous. High animal protein diets are also dangerous. Finally, carbohydrates are necessary for survival. Ban Frankfurter and get rid of a high fat carcinogen. Young children are too young to understand every statement here and should not have the choice to eat such an unhealthy food. Tell your local school to ban hot dogs today. The U.N. should ban frankfurter. Vote pro. 1. http://science.howstuffworks.com... 2. http://www.livestrong.com... 3. http://umm.edu... 4. http://www.nutrition.gov... 5. http://nutritiondata.self.com... 6. http://nutritiondata.self.com... 7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 9. http://philmaffetone.com... 10. http://www.fitday.com... 11. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 12. http://tedxtalks.ted.com... 13. http://www.paleostyle.com...