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WW App for kids and teens
Weight Watchers has debuted an app for kids as young as 8 years old to promote "healthy eating", but also weight loss. There is obviously some controversy about this: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/weight-watchers-app-kids-draws-backlash-parents-calls/story?id=65052867&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_card_hed Do you…
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"Unrealistic" body goals
In the last few days I've seen a girl in her 20s be told that wanting a flat belly is unrealistic and a guy be told that sub 10% bf was largely genetics. When I started my journey, I was obese and from Day 1 I had a "unrealistic" goal physique. It took me over a decade but I achieved that goal and so have hundreds of…
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the necessity of working out and impacts of yoga
This discussion was created from replies split from: I need your advice.
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We should make vaccines before viruses emerge
A lot like the flu shot, they make educated predictions about what strains will circulate before it happens. And we don't spend 15 years testing it, we know the framework for making flu shots is safe. Sounds crazy, right? Because of SARS and MERS, public health people knew it was a matter of time until another coronavirus…
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COVID19 - To Vaccinate or To Not Vaccinate
A place to debate the COVID19 vaccine. This is a hot topic, but please feel free to discuss opposing view points here. These posts were pulled from the Coronavirus Prep thread. If you are looking for that thread it is located here.
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Honest opinions on weight loss surgery
Hi , i was looking for some honest opinions on weight loss surgeries such as gastric bypass and sleeves etc. While it's great people are bettering their health do you feel the person who makes hard lifestyle changes and loses the weight on their own works harder ? Is it wrong to feel that way? . I guess to me when you…
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If no medical assistance and fitness was applied.................
How long would the average life span be? I posted on something about this awhile back. If we look at it objectively, our hormones start peaking from teens to about 30 years on average. Girls can procreate in their teens and many males are somewhat more fit in their teens and 20's than after. And if you look back well…
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Relationship Compatibility
A little background information- I’m a Caucasian, blonde, blue eyed female, American. My husband is Asian, has dark features, about my height, close to my weight, and his family fled the Khmer Rouge (he is 1st generation American). We are both in our early 30’s. In another thread it was commented that marrying your race…
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Piggybacking off of the food addiction controversy post...
I saw this article on WebMd today about "Hedonic Hunger." It's quite long, but discusses eating for pleasure, and how some people may be more predisposed to partake in hedonic eating (like binge eating) due to genetics, environmental influences and a person's inhibitory response. The article doesn't go so far as to say…
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Great bodies and attractiveness or Money and success catch our eye?
So I had this discussion with a friend on FB messenger about why someone may catch your eye. I stated it was due to human instinct and that a fit body and attractiveness does because instinctively having a mate that looks healthy and is good looking enough to attract, gives higher percentage of having offspring that can do…
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Ethical food consumption
I would like to open a discussion about ethical eating, but if possible I would like to extend it beyond vegan vs no vegan debates since it always ends up in a very heated debate with two separate clans. I think we all can make our eating a bit more ethical and environmental friendly, whatever our views are. I, personally…
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May we talk about set points?
Do others believe in "set points"? I have been reading a bit about them, and I think I have hit one. It seems that there are several weights that my body just likes, and it's harder to either lose or gain weight when I'm at a set point. I think it's what makes maintaining so hard, if you are not at a "set point". Here's…
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"Foodie Calls"
Heard about this on another thread and thought that it might be a fun discussion topic. Who's done this? Who thinks it was done to them? Dark personality traits predict women’s propensity to go on deceptive “foodie calls” for a free meal "...a foodie call occurs when a person, despite their lack of romantic attraction to…
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"Detoxifying food and drinks"
Straight up.....................it's BS. Don't fall for it, don't pay for it and certainly don't adhere to a program that touts you're inundated with toxins and need to do it. A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer IDEA Fitness member Kickboxing Certified Instructor Been in fitness for 30 years and have…
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Secret Eating vs. Willpower
I remember being 10 years old scraping dimes together to be able to "buy" chocolate bars that I was selling as a fundraiser and eating them all in my room. Stopping and getting an entire fast food meal (or 2) and eating it in the car before getting home to enjoy another entire meal. I always thought the yo-yo came from…
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Bulletproof coffee guy says 'eat some carbs'
https://www.insider.com/keto-diet-gone-too-far-says-early-advocate-dave-asprey-2021-1?fbclid=IwAR2jpD2kXNbKlFuvoivXAqsm0VR6wYCrQwMmmhdrTUN0DVbbwC7S9BhfWuc It's nice when people can admit they were wrong :)
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I wonder if this will change anything....
Under Armor has given up on MFP: https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/under-armour-sells-fitness-app-myfitnesspal Do you think this will bring any changes around here?
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How do you consider someone being an athlete?
Being part of the bodybuilding industry like almost all my life, I've NEVER thought of competitive bodybuilders as "athletes" the way the industry sees them. I see them as competitors, but not athletes because they don't physically compete with each other, there's no display of athletism in contests and these guys are…
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Was your Personal Trainer Competent?
I worked in the fitness industry for roughly 7 years (5 of which I was a Certified Personal Trainer). I have had the opportunity to work in non-profit, corporate, commercial, and even ran my own gig training soccer teams and individual athletes for a couple of years. I have met an insane amount of trainers during that time…
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Is promoting weight loss dangerous?
Consider this: -The human body has evolved to favor weight gain in order to avoid starvation. -Calorie deprivation experiments have shown that even fairly small reductions in food intake can cause psychological distress, including hoarding behaviors. -Eating disorders are the deadliest of all mental illnesses due to high…
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Is it a good idea to weigh yourself every day?
I've seen countless threads where people are checking in with their weight on a daily basis. I feel like every article, every book, and every piece of anecdotal advice I've heard or read about fitness has said that it's a terrible idea to weigh yourself every day. They say you should only weigh yourself one a week or even…
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How often should you bathe/shower?
This question is at the center of a recent NPR article: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/26/917019912/in-the-era-of-hygiene-clean-author-makes-the-case-for-showering-less Dr. James Hamblin, the author of "Clean," argues that many of us are showering too often, possibly to the detriment of our skin's…
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Can our bodies forget how to use certain energy sources or possibly never have learned it?
Normally the body uses various sources for energy. In everyday life mostly a mix of fatty acids and glycogen, and to a lesser extend amino acids, and more obscure things like lactic acid if available, right? For the past 30 years or more, since being a teenager I've been having crashes and since earliest childhood problems…
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Vegan Milk
Perfect Day, a startup that I've been following out of curiosity more than anything else (and I know a few of the engineers involved), now has Vegan products, including Ice Cream, out in stores. Basically, this company, through fermentation methods that have existed for years, has grown milk proteins in a lab that are…
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Blood type diet? Yay or nay?
Anyone believe blood type affects what foods your more tolerant towards?
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Processed foods cause more weight gain
Thread title paraphrased from article, links/sources etc within article. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-processed-foods-lead-to-weight-gain-nih-study-2019-5 Personally speaking, the inability/unwillingness to release the food I'm holding and/or stop shoving it into my mouth caused me to gain weight, but to further…
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Research: gut bacteria transplant for obese teens can help metabolic syndrome, no weight loss though
I've been following this slow-burning story for a while, whether bacteria transplants can help people lose weight like it happens in mice. This study says 'no', but if you are a teen with metabolic syndrome it can help there. You can read about one of the participants here…
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Has a documentary ever influenced you to eat more plant based?
Do documentaries, or reading health articles, books, etc., influence you when it comes to plant based eating? Has any information that you've come across actually convinced you to eat less meat and dairy, for whatever reason appeals to you (ethical, health, etc.)? About a month ago I watched 2 documentaries that were both…
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Do you think you have a balanced diet?
I was pretty convinced I was hitting most of the food groups until I started researching some of my issues. I have white spotting on my nails and arm pimples and when I read they foods to help these problems, I realised I didn't eat a SINGLE ONE! I told my sister and she said "well obviously, all you eat is carbs and…
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Can a "foodie" lose weight and keep it off?
I have been thinking about this lately. I am watching a professed foodie who lost a lot of weight following WLS start to regain. I am not suggesting that one thing must lead to the other. But does it create an additional mental hardship to have a love affair with food? I once considered myself one. I am an excellent cook…