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The Ego factor in weight management!
I came across this subject today when studying about the human ego. Oprah does not see her Ego as her friend it appears to me. Do you see your Ego as friend or foe? https://youtube.com/watch?v=sEVJac5kVIE formulatedfitness.com/motivation-wanna-lose-weight-3-things-your-ego-needs-to-hear-you-say/
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Insatiable on Netflix: fat shaming or good entertainment?
I’ve started watching several episodes of this show. The author of the series calls it her ‘fat revenge fantasy.’ However, it’s coming under fire in the media and body positivity groups as being ‘anti body positivity’ (should that be body negativity?) and fat shaming. My partner, who is classified as morbidly obese and…
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Should you be able to pronounce the names of product ingredients?
Do you think that a criteria for a safe/healthy product (food, health, or medical) is that it contains ingredients you can pronounce? Isn't this more a reflection on the language skills of the consumer than the efficacy/safety of a product? (This could be scary since the average American tests out a 5th grade reading…
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$25,000 abs with no exercise
This was in a health magazine in a medical clinic today. It must be true! $1000 per session,2x week for 6 months
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Carnivore Diet, Depression, and Autoimmune Disease -- Jordan Peterson
So my brother showed me an interview with Jordan Peterson on Youtube titled "Jordan Peterson's Carnivore Diet Cured His Depression?" (URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLF29w6YqXs), and it was really interesting. I was wondering if anyone here has seen this video and/or tried this diet? What are your thoughts on this?…
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Perceptions of Reasons for Weight Gain in Different Cultures
Hi all, I'm not sure if something like this has been posted before but I thought it would make for an interesting discussion. I have been trying to improve my French but watching French documentaries, particularly about diet and weight loss. From these documentaries, it seems that the underlying opinion is that the…
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Big nutrition research scandal sees 6 more retractions, purging popular diet tips
Amid this latest course in the scandal, Cornell reported today, September 20, that Wansink has resigned from his position, effective at the end of the current academic year. In a statement emailed to Ars, Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff said that an internal investigation by a faculty committee found that “Professor…
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Getting off the sweets split
This discussion was created from replies split from: Getting off the sweets.
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Is every single body in the world intended to be within the so-called healthy BMI range?
If a body is not within that range do you assume that person must be doing something wrong? If a body is not within that range do you feel that person should be doing whatever it takes to get there? I’m not sure I’m asking these questions in the clearest way. I’ve been rolling them around in my brain for a while now,…
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The Obesity piece on HuffPost
Anyone talking about this? I looked around the forums but didn’t see it. https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/ Obviously we as CICO practicers don’t believe in much of this article. Is metabolism permanently lowered by obesity? Will power isn’t a limitless resource—…
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Should you exercise when you're sick?
Do you workout even though you're sick or do you go lighter or stop until you feel better?
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Muscle mass should be a new vital sign, research shows
Interesting study/article on the importance of muscle mass. Can vouch from personal experience. Contracted sepsis and was in the hospital for 7 days. After I recovered, several medical professionals said being in decent shape saved my life, most people with it that bad go out in a body bag. Yes, exercise is important. A…
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Halloween Issues
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Keto Diet Debate
This discussion was created from replies split from: Keto Diet.
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Fasting to correct autoimmune diseases??
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/fasting-for-three-days-can-regenerate-entire-immune-system-study/ As for someone who suffers from severe eczema and alopecia areata (progressed to universalis last year) since a child I'm always trying to find a way to help heal it since visiting numerous doctors have never…
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Sitting has competition: Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/27/air-pollution-is-the-new-tobacco-warns-who-head Short summary, air pollution is very bad in parts of the word where many people live, but not too many MFP users.
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If you drink Diet Coke obsessively....You might be a runner. What's that all about?
Has anyone else ever noticed that runner's drink Diet Coke like it's water? I'm not a nutritionist, nor do I claim any expertise in this matter, but practically substituting your water consumption during the day with Diet Coke has to take a toll eventually...am I right? :-) (Not attacking runners here...just having some…
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Intermittent fasting - Dr Jason Fung
I have watch a few of his YouTube videos and read one of his books. The Diabetic Code. I’m interested in his claim that you have to fast to get your insulin down and after 36 hours you start using your stored body fat. Anyone else read his work and claims? what do you think about it?
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GMO Edible Cotton Seed
Developed at a university, this modified plant has the potential to produce more protein than all the chickens in the world. Areas where cotton is grown often has high malnutrition rates as well, so this cash crop could give back to the farmer in new ways.…
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Food 80% Exercise 10% Sleep 10%
Food Vs. Exercise what is it? if food why does everyone say will get active? I know its both but food is not given its importance IMHO. Hello I have lost 80 pounds last 3 years. When talking a ways back at Doctors office they said 80% of your loss will be food I said really? Why is it then so much, so many excuses, so many…
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Is veganism only possible with enough money?
I have heard it said that the poorer you get, the less you are able to follow a vegan diet. So I would ask: is veganism a diet of the those with money, or can even those without money follow it? First follow up question - if you think a vegan diet CAN be done, regardless of income, can you come up with a meal plan for an…
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Virgin Pulse and mandatory workforce wellbeing programs
What are your thoughts? A good friend of mine is required by her employer to accumulate a certain number of “points” via an online program to maintain her health insurance benefit. She is a well-paid, highly educated professional in the peak of her career (US). Her employer employs “unskilled” workers along with those…
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Relative fat mass (RFM) as a new estimator of whole-body fat percentage
An interesting new article I came across this morning, with an improved formula for estimating body fat percentages based on a recent study. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29362-1 Abstract: "High whole-body fat percentage is independently associated with increased mortality. We aimed to identify a simple…
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Is anything really good for you anymore?
Let me begin with some background. I'm completely new to "eating healthy", and have decided to try meal prepping. I started with some ground rules. Not to list them all, but some rules were 1. Food had to be relatively cheap, easy to get. 2. I had to like it. I'm not a huge fan of seafood. Mostly because I don't like the…
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'Extreme Diet Hotel'
Did anyone catch this programme last night? Extreme diet it is! 450 cals a day :/ - ok so its only for 1 week but my goodness, I have no clue how those people did all the exercise on practically no fuel! Then there were massive losses - one guy lost 22lbs - IN A WEEK!! I really didn't think that much was possible! I know…
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Intermittent Fasting/Clean Fasting Debate
This discussion was created from replies split from: Intermittent fasting.
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"Awards" Rant
They are organizing a step challenge at work, Some of my group was going to do it so I took a look. It involves measuring steps with a tracker or phone app. Since I don't have a tracker, I looked at the recommended phone app. When I looked at the app, this "challenge/award opportunity" came up. WTF, some app developer…
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Goal Setting: How granular should one's approach be?
A Stoic would say that you cannot control how your body will respond to a specific diet or exercise routine. Because of science we can have a general idea, but there are too many outliers for a specific goal. What we can control however is how much and what we eat, and the type and frequency of our exercise. So…
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Alcohol: Toxic in any amount, or beneficial in moderation, or does it depend on the person?
Would love to see any conclusive meta-studies, or even peer-reviewed research that shows the science is still inconclusive.
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My Own YMCA Blog Post on IF that seems to be more Woo than Science
https://www.gwrymca.org/blogs/how-and-why-behind-intermittent-fasting Doesn't seem to add up, but not sure I can recall / rebut the parts that don't seem right. So I'll put it here and let the community tear up the bad science the confirm the good. And explain why? Thanks in Advance!