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Obesity Paradox: Health benefits to being overweight?
Recently, several news sites (Quartz, Times, etc.) have reported on this study that pointed out overweight people have a longer life expectancy than people with normal BMI, with the account of elevated heart disease/diabetes risk caused by excess fat. This 'obesity paradox' has been reported before, but with the whole fat…
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The Water debate
I always drink water before or with meals. This helps me eat my food and also I hear that you fill up faster if you have some water beforehand. Not sure how true that is. However, being in Korea.... people here drink water AFTER their meals as it is believed to hinder digestion. I've only known one person here who drinks…
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Google Fit (Android) accuracy .....iPhone users welcome too!
Does anyone question how accurate our phones are with tracking exercises and calculating how many calories were burned? Android or iPhone just curious what your thoughts are.
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Loneliness as a Health Risk
latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-loneliness-heart-risk-smoking-20160419-story.html A clip from the article: "The problem is that people who fit all those descriptions tend to engage in fewer healthy behaviors such as exercise, visiting a doctor, and following his or her recommendations. And they're more likely to…
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Are High-Fat Foods Good For You? Wait - Are Fatty Foods Good For You?
http://ca.askmen.com/sports/foodcourt/are-high-fat-foods-good-for-you.html "Calories are all that matter to weight loss, so any time someone says what amounts to, “If you consume this thing that is higher in calories for the same volume, you’ll lose more weight,” my bovine dropping detector goes berserk. It makes no…
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Diet soda and weight loss?
So I have a huge diet soda habit and a friend at work insists that despite being 0 calories, diet soda is negatively impacting my weight loss. Thoughts?
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Probiotics
Do you take them and how have they improved your life
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Which is more difficult? Gaining or Losing?
I get that both have mind over matter factors. I just feel that people believe gaining is easier because obesity is such a big/common issue in comparison. I have a hard time thinking losing is easier even though I've never tried myself. Most of the time I am at the point where my mind is telling me I can't intake any more…
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What to call a diet that is just based on reduced calories?
"CICO" is often stated when someone advises someone else to reduce calories in order to lose weight. I've seen it called the CICO woe, but that was corrected with statements along the lines of "CICO is not a woe". What should that way of eating be called, when one is not following or incorporating any other food specific…
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Low carb and PCOS?
I'm sure there have been quite a few posts on this, but I'm kind of new to MFP and wanted up to date opinions and advice. I've heard a lot of controversy about low carb but this isn't strictly for weight loss (though ideally, this would be great too!!). I have PCOS, and was advised by my doctor to go low carb as apparently…
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Will nano tech really let humans live longer and longer?
businessinsider.com/googles-chief-futurist-thinks-we-could-start-living-forever-by-2029-2016-4 "The second is work being done at Joslin Diabetes Center in Connecticut, which has used biotechnology to turn off the fat insulin receptor gene in animals, allowing them to eat large quantities of food without developing diabetes…
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New Polio Vaccine
This appears to be quite a victory. A new vaccine is being introduced because one of the strains of wild Polio appears to have been completely wiped out (it was last identified in the wild in 1999). What do you all think? Is this a wise move or would it have been better to continue to inoculate for the type 2 wild strain?…
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Why are there more eating opportunities for kids now than in the past?
Another thread got me thinking about kids and snacks. When I was growing up my organized activities didn't include snacks. My mom didn't carry food or drink with her for us after age 2. If we were out and hungry, we had to suck it up until the next meal. We would have an afterschool snack. After kindergarten I didn't have…
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Did You / Would You Vax Your Child?
I most certainly would! Growing up, you weren't allowed to attend school or participate in intramurals without proof that you "had all your shots." Is there a link between vax and asd / downs? MAYBE Has it been 100% Proven? NOPE Are there blatantly ignorant people wasting air? YESSIR
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Peer Review Process Doesn't Work!
theweek.com/articles/618141/big-science-broken "The peer review process doesn't work. " This is the above article source: firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scientific-regress "If peer review is good at anything, it appears to be keeping unpopular ideas from being published. Consider the finding of another (yes, another) of…
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Carbs?!
So I am about 15 lbs from "goal weight" I put a number on it but that number is subject to change. Once I hit goal I am very interested in body recomposition. I am currently doing research on the subject and figuring out the macros for training/non training days. I understand the concept of training days that is easy. But…
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Full or low fat dairy?
We are not milk drinkers in our household, so dairy products that we do have are usually full fat. I use whole milk for cooking, and occasionally on my granola. We use a few other dairy products like cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, etc, sparingly. Or maybe not sparingly enough. I'm having trouble with my weight loss,…
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Coconut Oil - Does it raise cholesterol?
Hi, everyone! I read several articles on coconut oil. Some say it we still should be cautious because it is high in saturated fat However, some encourage the consumption of it. Even state that coconut oil helps to burn fat. What do you think?
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Keto and carb source question
So I am on a mommy group that has a lot of keto gals on it. 1 mommy said she was going to eat a cup of popcorn for 6g of carbs and another mommy said not to as its not keto approved and could kick her out of ketosis. Which got me wondering... Purely from a ketosis point of view: Assuming carbs remain under 20 for the day…
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Study that shows eating cholesterol lowing diets causes more deaths.
https://washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/12/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published/?postshare=9991460508518896&tid=ss_tw 'The higher rate of mortality for patients on the special diet was most apparent among patients older than 64.' The (special diet) is the…
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Fruits vs Sweets?
What fruits would you choose over sweets?
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World’s obese population hits 641 million, global study finds
channelnewsasia.com/news/world/world-s-obese-population/2655302.html This article covers different parts of the world and where people are the most thick and thin body wise.
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Intermittent Fasting: help me logic this article
So I am in a discussion about IF with another group. I said with calorie deficit and macros being the same, the Intermittent faster should not lose weight faster than the rest. Then she presented this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22608008/ Now what?! Was I wrong?
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Does anyone else find this creepy?
Has anyone else seen this on the soda fridges in stores? I've seen this "PSA" several times lately while out getting groceries, and I'm just creeped out. I looked it up... they've been funding research and trying to turn public opinion toward exercise as more important than diet in the current obesity epidemic. Since when…
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Saturated Fat was never 'uncool' we now read.
cbc.ca/news/health/saturated-fat-diet-heart-hypothesis-1.3532509 "We were able to find that actually those that lowered their cholesterol more actually had increased rather than reduced risk of death," Ramsden said in an interview. "It was surprising."
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Blood Type Diet- Is it for real or is it more diet hokum?
One of my friends claims to have had success on the Blood Type Diet. Does anyone know of any nutrition research (positive or negative) related to this?
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Fat Burning Zone
Fact or Crap?
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Negative Net
In your opinion, is it ok to have a negative net if you are reaching the negative net but still eating your suggested calorie and nutrition goal? Ie... the negative net is from burning more calories exercising than you do from eating for the day? This will be a rare occurance in the busy day to day hustle and bustle. But I…
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Activity-equivalent calorie labelling
A conversation going on in my house today about this. It was on the news this morning and found it quite intriguing... http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/food-labels-exercise-1.3523084 I am curious of everyone's thoughts on this and debate the pro's and con's of doing such labeling in the UK and perhaps bringing it into the US?
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Effects of Long Term Deficit
Hello! I'm hoping to get some debate/info going about whether or not it's "good" to stay in a calorie deficit for long periods of time. For those who have a lot of weight to lose, is it OK to just stay in a deficit for say, a year or two years straight? Or is it better for them (talking overall health) if they take a break…