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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?

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  • Posts: 10,179 Member
    These past 2 Sundays I ate a high number of carbs. Bread. Lots of bread. These past 2 Mondays I recorded a multi-lb weight loss. That's not just an opinion, that's a fact. It's a fact that I wasn't expecting to observe, ever. But, wow.
  • Posts: 1,011 Member
    edited June 2017

    It blows my mind that someone (and I know it happens) doesn't know they're pregnant until the baby comes.

    Was your wife overweight? I can't even.
    No she was not and never was overweight.
    She still had her period the whole time.

    She is it better shape the vast majority of women, in my experience.

  • Posts: 3,563 Member

    Studies suggest that cravings and revulsions are less a factor of hormones and more a factor of nutrient balance.

    In other words, If you're malnourished you're unlikely to be nauseated by anything that will provide nourishment/nutrients.

    Could you provide those studies please. I'm skeptical.
  • Posts: 1,011 Member
    I think most potential parents are shooting for a better situation than "probable viability." We *know* that prenatal nutrition has a strong impact on a child's health. Why you are completely dismissing this is beyond me.
    Because -again- we are discussing how unnecessarily fat many pregnant women become, not what is "optimal" for prenatal health. Please stop changing the subject.
    If your assertion is that an over-fat mother means the child is going to automatically be healthier in the long-term then that is a different topic.
    I will disagree with you, but that is a different subject.

    As for things like my wife's eating habits, my experiences with pregnant women, etc. you are making several invalid assumptions which have little bearing on the discussion.
  • Posts: 6,644 Member
    Oh boy.
  • Posts: 7,739 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I think that on the forums as a whole, about 10-15% of those who comment have read only the thread title (not even the whole OP, let alone the whole thread).

    Oh, wait . . . maybe that could turn out to be a popular opinion.

    Accurate opinion, I'd say - popular or not.
  • Posts: 1,011 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I think that on the forums as a whole, about 10-15% of those who comment have read only the thread title (not even the whole OP, let alone the whole thread).

    Oh, wait . . . maybe that could turn out to be a popular opinion.
    I am not going to debate if it is a unpopular opinion about health or fitness.
    That would not be as enlightening.
  • Posts: 245 Member
    I think a bag of peanut M&Ms is great bike food. The bag stores easily, you can eat a few at a time then fold the corner so they don't spill out in your pocket, the sugar processes quickly so you can put the energy back into the pedals.

    Standard snack food for me on canoe trips.
  • Posts: 8,753 Member

    That is indeed the situation.

    Fortunately there are men, like my husband, who tolerate their wives putting on the amount of weight recommended by an actual OBGYN for the trade off of knowing their music-loving little tyke had enough energy to quicken at the thunderous rumble of a cathedral-quality pipe organ ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God") and to rock out at a Kid Rock concert (in Detroit...it doesn't get any better than flames, strippers, fur coats, and some assertive head banging going on in one's belly).

    Lol! ZZ Top for me and my little one!
  • Posts: 5,600 Member
    dapunks wrote: »

    Standard snack food for me on canoe trips.

    personally I prefer gummy bears because chocolate can melt but YMMV ;)
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