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Serotonin and the gut/brain
I'm opening a discussion on tryptophan and serotonin and their production/impacts for the gut and brain. I've heard that while most serotonin is produced in the gut, it cannot cross the blood/brain barrier and so it does not impact serotonin in the brain. I've also heard the reverse, that reduced serotonin production in…
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Research: hormonal treatment for compulsive overeating
For people who don't feel full when they are full: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/overeating-is-it-all-in-your-head-072315 Could be wonderful for people with binge eating disorder, Prader-Willi syndrome, and stuff like that.
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Would a neg result lead many people to change their eating/moving ways?
ebiomedicine.com/article/S2352-3964(16)30256-0/fulltext Blood test shows chance of suffering heart attack within five years.
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What is clean eating?
Well, I might as well do something with this list and the new debate forums seems as good a place as any for it. Once upon a time, I was under the belief that clean eating had a simple definition. It was cooking from scratch using as simple ingredients as possible. MFP has disillusioned me of that idea. Here on MFP I've…
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Does Simple CICO Work Just As Well As Clean Eating To Improve Body Tone As You Lose?
So my question relates to some conflicting info. I keep hearing on this site. So many people claim CICO is the key to losing weight. I get it. You have to be in a deficit. But then you get the "no processed foods, cut everything white, etc" camp. This seems to conflict with the people who say " eat all the food you like,…
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"Addiction" versus "Dependence"
I often see someone post that he or she is addicted to a food. When this happens, someone invariably responds with something like ________ addiction is "not a thing." (I suppose sugar is the most common example.) When this happens, the person responding is confounding two related but different clinical concepts. ADDICTION…
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Pure cardio over the long term is a waste of energy and time.
I started my fitness journey at 216lbs back in 2010. At 5'9", that put me in an uncomfortable where I was really not happy with my health or my appearance. It was one of many sources of depression so I decided to start working out and eating better. I've went through many trials and tried just about everything to test for…
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Listing calories on the front of packaging
I am making cookies for my daughter to take to a party. I bought Skor candy bars to add to the dough. I noticed that the calories are listed right on the front. The M&M bags had calories listed on the front too. Then I noticed that some of the "king size" bars didn't list calories but had some sort of language like "king…
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Heartrate and caloric burn relationship - How much does HR actually influence it?
So I'm having trouble pinning down a somewhat informed/scientific answer to this question - Given two identical people (same body composition, etc.) who are performing the same *light* activity (e.g., Office work, a hundred steps here and there, and NOT exercise), how big of a difference (in very, very rough percentage…
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Cholesterol
Need to know what to do with my earing habits that's easy to understand to lower cholesterol. ..please explain mono and saturated fats...
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Fitbit HR Inaccurate
http://www.lieffcabraser.com/2016/05/comprehensive-testing-confirms-fitbits-purepulse-heart-rate-monitors-highly-inaccurate/
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Biggest loser?
What do people think about what they do on the biggest loser?
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What do people think of this?
https://phcuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Eat-Fat-Cut-The-Carbs-and-Avoid-Snacking-To-Reverse-Obesity-and-Type-2-Diabetes-National-Obesity-Forum-Public-Health-Collaboration.pdf
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Nutrition Labels and Hidden Sugars
There's been some discussions in other threads about added and hidden sugars in foods so I thought we could use a thread specifically for this topic. Here's the question: Is sugar ever actually hidden in food? I'd love to hear viewpoints from both sides.
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Gaining more pounds than you eat
Just asking out of curiosity, is it theoretically possible to gain more weight than the weight of the food you ate? There's 453.59 grams in a pound and fat has 9 cal / gram, so a pound of pure fat would have 4,082.3 calories. So in theory, if you ate 3500 calories of PURE fat over your TDEE, you'd actually gain more weight…
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Has Food Been Turned into an Addictive Drug?
There are so many obese people now Profit is more important than people Sugar is added to everything Millions of dollars is spent researching how to make food taste better I watched a video where they did an experiment with two identical twins. One given a high fat diet the other given a high carb diet. In the end there…
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Will You Let it Eat You Alive?
Lots of threads spring up here about "toxins" in food. And they always go down a similar path. Always. I have spent that last 15+ (give or take) years being on-again, off-again the "Food Fear" bandwagon. It led me to get rid of my microwave, to throw out hundreds of dollars of "processed chemical junk food" from my pantry,…
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afraid of animal fats and cholesterol?
Do you still think eating butter will give you heart disease? Check out Dr. Maryanne Demasi's documentary. Lots of great information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIGXfIDaJo#action=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4eTGMe-EY#action=share
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Cell phone impact on Health.
microwavenews.com/news-center/ntp-cancer-results While these results have been coming out of Europe for about 20 years is the USA about to become concerned about cell phone usage for health reasons? I know of a 40 year old with this type of cancer that just started ionizing radiation for brain cancer treatment.
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Opinions on CICO while eating healthy?
I hear/see all these people claiming CICO alone is the only thing needed to reach fitness goals. I used to do that along with light exercise and lost weight but didn't become fit and instead became skinny-fat. So I increased my exercise a bit and still wasn't getting anywhere then went to a gym and saw all these lean guys…
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IF...Lean Gains for DAYS???
How do you guys feel about intermittent fasting? I've been doing it for a couple weeks and really like it, it certainly isn't "melting off" yet, but I've dropped a few pounds. If I work out at 6 am, go to work at 8-5 and my eating window is from 1-9, am I working out for no reason? I definitely am pretty hungry by 1 o…
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Sweat as an indivation of calories burned?
I know it is said that sweat is not tied to calorie burn....that i think is only a half truth. Its simple....given the same conditions (same excercise ,same person,same hydration, same temp and humidity ) that person will sweat more at an increased excercise intensity than at a lower one. So ya sweating is correlated with…
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Are diets that drastically reduce one of the macros sustainable if there's no medical necessity?
When I say diet, I just mean food intake. When I say sustainable, I guess I'm not sure just exactly how long I mean.. let's say years.
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Enamel erosion?
I don't know if this question fits into this category, or even MFP at all. But I'd like answers before I consult a dentist. I suffer from a form of GERD so acid is against my teeth a lot. I always wash my mouth with fluoride mouthwash and brush my teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste. Does my enamel look bad? I'm so…
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Is "refeeding" necessary?
Just read this article and would like your thoughts. http://www.muscleforlife.com/refeed/ Bonus question: As a 5'2" female with ~18% bf and eating 1200 cal for the past 6 weeks, do you think I would benefit from a refeed or is that only for 'real athletes'?
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Advanced Glycation End products in food
Amidst all the recent goings-on about sugar, I decided to see what in the world the anti-sugar people are going on about, especially when claims that sugar ages you came up. I found out there is research into something called Advanced Glycation End products (which makes AGEs a convenient acronym) and thought this would…
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Periodic Diet Break to minimize diet effects on metabolic rate?
After reading the recent biggest loser study http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html Got me to wondering if I should be incorporating a periodic timeout from losing weight goal (eat at maintenance for 10-14 days). I have lost 20 pounds in 12 weeks and have another 25 to go. Here's another…
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Cheating meals
Is it true cheating meals r important to boost your metabolism? Do they slow the losing weight process by much? Do u do it? How often? Do u control a bit or go all the way with them?
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Is a calorie a calorie?
Is a calorie a calorie? Do they all burn the same?
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Carb cycling
I'm giving calorie cycling a try along with my recomp. Higher calories obviously on my workout days.... Is there any benefit to eating low carb on the low calorie days? I'm not carb phobic at all as I eat plenty in general. Just wondering if this has the potential to do anything.