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  • LivinBest_Life
    LivinBest_Life Posts: 28 Member
    Thanks for all of the feedback, appreciate everyone's opinions.

    I certainly am not a salesman and selling anything.....just new here and want to connect and share.
    I haven't cut and pasted anything, I do daily everything I mention and it works for me.

    My intentions are good to help people to share knowledge, yes one day something is right then the next it can be proven to be wrong. I am just sharing here. Apologies if I have offended anyone or misrepresented my ideas in any ways to upset people.....

    Best of luck and thanks for the positive criticisms and as @snickerscharlie mentioned absolutely seek the opinion of a medical practitioner before taking any supplements.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....


    I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please :), both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.

    Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.

    So am I!

    half of them were women. ;)

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    donsenna wrote: »

    HACKS

    *Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this

    *Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
    A probiotic supplement may benefit you too

    *Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
    Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....

    * Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....

    * Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !

    There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.

    Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
    Thanks

    I am always wary of claims like NEW HEALTH HACKS!
    Mainly because most good advice for living will not be new - stick to boring advice like
    1. Dont smoke,
    2. dont drink alcohol to excess,
    3. follow a balanced diet using guidelines such as the one your govt provides,
    4. keep weight to a healthy level (for almost everyone this will be in or very close to standard BMI ranges)
    5. do some physical excercise most days (the Aust govt defines this as minimum half hour of walking 5 days out of 7 - the walking does not have to be continuous eg I walk 15 minutes to work and 15 minutes back)
    6. have regular health checks as recomended eg pap smears, mammograms, FOBT's,
    7. have immunisations as recomended

    But I do not claim any of that as new or as paperpudding originals.

    paprerpudding n=1 as follows.

    I never take magnesium.
    I sleep for around 7 hours most nights but almost never asleep before 10 pm (also have occasional weekend afternoon nap)
    I eat a general balanced diet, including fruit, veg every day but sourbread, garlic, sourkraut only occasionally. I do not like greek yoghert
    I do not do any form of IF nor do I intend to
    I drink water - but not 500ml first thing in the morning
    and I highly doubt this would boost my metabolism by 30% - why do I need it boosted by 30% anyway??
    I also highly doubt the ONLY difference between the 50,000 Japanese and me was this water habit. Genetics and location are different for starters since I am not of Japanese descent nor do I live in Japan.
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....


    I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please :), both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.

    Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.

    So am I!

    half of them were women. ;)

    And didn't all live in caves, and those that did utilise caves (they are, after all, a handy ready made shelter) didn't live in them year round.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....


    I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please :), both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.

    Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.

    So am I!

    half of them were women. ;)

    And didn't all live in caves, and those that did utilise caves (they are, after all, a handy ready made shelter) didn't live in them year round.


    yes i know. ;)

    was just facetious comment picking up on sexism of "caveman" B)
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Thanks for all of the feedback, appreciate everyone's opinions.

    I certainly am not a salesman and selling anything.....just new here and want to connect and share.
    I haven't cut and pasted anything, I do daily everything I mention and it works for me.

    My intentions are good to help people to share knowledge, yes one day something is right then the next it can be proven to be wrong. I am just sharing here. Apologies if I have offended anyone or misrepresented my ideas in any ways to upset people.....

    Best of luck and thanks for the positive criticisms and as @snickerscharlie mentioned absolutely seek the opinion of a medical practitioner before taking any supplements.

    I do understand that you are just trying to help people. That's wonderful! Perhaps just jumping in on the multitudes of existing threads and questions posted all over the forum might be a better way to share your ideas? :)
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....


    I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please :), both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.

    Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.

    So am I!

    half of them were women. ;)

    And didn't all live in caves, and those that did utilise caves (they are, after all, a handy ready made shelter) didn't live in them year round.


    yes i know. ;)

    was just facetious comment picking up on sexism of "caveman" B)

    Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Me too! Any tips for keeping my bp up ?

    By "bp" I'm assuming you mean blood pressure?
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,260 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!

    But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion? :innocent:
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    edited February 2020
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!

    But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion? :innocent:

    Caveat lector.

    PS: Clan of the Cave Bear was freaking awesome!
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!

    But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion? :innocent:

    The real question is, were they wearing this? https://neandertal.co.uk/
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!

    But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion? :innocent:

    The real question is, were they wearing this? https://neandertal.co.uk/

    Oh gosh. I don't want to know what that smells like...
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!

    But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion? :innocent:

    They were Clan. They called Cro-Magnon The Others. ;)
  • magnusthenerd
    magnusthenerd Posts: 1,207 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    I feel like explaining my disagree on the first post.... I was anticipating the later post, thus it was an anticipatory disagree. Having arrived at the later post I see no reason to change that first disagree, mainly on the points raised by others and discussed above.

    Some of the hacks seem relatively benign, though a bit... mind space consuming for marginal benefit. Some seem to have the potential to cause some issues for some people: I doubt that everyone in the world would improve their health by taking more magnesium, or am I missing something?

    But, I've always wondered about the following (by no means is this the first time I see it and I've always wondered about it) that no-one has ever explained to me in a way I can understand:

    People wanting to lose fat talk about improving their digestion. And for the life of me I do not understand the mechanism where you will create an energy deficit and lose fat by being able to extract more calories out of the food that is transiting through your body!

    Is it that you will feel so much better and you will be flying through your day increasing your Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (caloric expenditure) because you're no longer feeling bloated? OK. I can understand that! Maybe. But then I would consider this an anti-bloat improvement measure as opposed to an "absorb more nutrients out of my food" measure. And yet most people seem to imply that absorbing more nutrients will be helpful to weight loss.

    So yeah. Still at a loss as to how absorbing more nutrients and energy from my food will make me lose weight and the science behind it! :disappointed:

    Oh well. I wish everyone success in reaching their goals.

    Dispassionately analysing previous knowledge, discarding what is marginal or unhelpful and concentrating on the "base of the pyramid" the stuff that offers real traction towards meeting goals will probably help most of us get closer to reaching our goals.

    Take care! :smiley:

    I think honestly most people that think fixing digestion will cause weight loss don't have a very deep or structured model in their mind for how it will work. I think instead most people espousing it thing something like, obesity / overweight is bad / a disease, the digestive system is involved in the problem, fix digestion, fix disease. It is kind of an ill-humors / bad elemental balance concept of the body that tends to be how a lot of people think of it. I think to some extent, it might even be our default way of thinking and reasoning about things: we judge things bad or good, and good things fix bad things if good thing has any connection to bad thing.