What is one fitness topic that is accepted by everyone? (I don't think there is one)

I agree with @paperpudding. Your body can lie to you.

NorthCascades wrote: »

Red is the fastest color. You're welcome.

It's true. It's the color most likely to run in the washing machine. (Strangely, that means it's not color-fast.)

dontlikepeople wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

You CAN'T challenge this. If you want to lose weight, you eat less than you burn.

"This idea of 'a calorie in and a calorie out' when it comes to weight loss is not only antiquated, it's just wrong," says Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity specialist and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/stop-counting-calories

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Challenged! She lists everything from gut bacteria to medicine interactions. Don't get me wrong, I think she's wrong, but she mentions over and over how calories don't count. She believes just eating healthy and reducing stress is enough, and tip toes around any notion of portion control anywhere in the article.

Guess she didn't major in math.


A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

My take is this.
On the subject of health and fitness, there are legions of people that want quick fixes and an easy ride.
If a fact isn’t convenient, they will look at any source, regardless of how credible and latch onto it for dear life.

I doubt there is anything that everybody agrees on. It’s just not the nature of people.

Still to this day, I find it hard to understand that people challenge things like the facts behind calories. I’ve heard every argument under the sun about different types of ‘calories’, misunderstanding entirely that a calorie is only a unit of measurement and not a macro or micro.

Ignorance is bliss - until results aren’t gained and a snake oil salesperson can come along offering a quick fix to all life’s problems.

The TV show _The Biggest Loser_ set an example of how NOT to lose weight. Contestants went on crash diets, ran marathons in 100-degree heat, used drugs, and dehydrated themselves. The trainers were so abusive.

If I were to wake up and find myself on the premises, I'd be sure to get plenty of exercise by RUNNING AWAY!

We are bent on survival. The body is so efficient. It can deal with almost any food if there's enough movement. I grew up without fresh foods. We lived in the backcountry and we were snowbound. Our food arrived via a snowmobile sled. It was canned. There were standard staples of flour, cereals, sugar, powdered milk and crisco. Tinned fishes and trout, meat, too. There was very little chicken or turkey. Call it a refined food diet for the most part. We didn't have any issues with weight.

I never had to give any of this a single thought until I left home. I started my first diet that I found in a woman's magazine. What a mistake. Enter in food rules, assigning moral judgments to food and I was in arrears. Big arrears.

We are born with a lifetime survival instinct. With enough movement, you can put anything over noodles and you'll dance on your toes like Snoopy. We have made food so complicated, but we're in a weaker condition than generations before us. We overthink everything. Use it or lose it. Move and don't stop.

Some nights, if you want to get by with a little help from your friends from the frozen dinner section...don't sweat it. Marie and Amy will always be there for you.

Oh no!
Not ethyl butanoate and pentyl acetate. I will never be able to eat one of those highly processed yellow tubes of deliciousness again....

glassyo wrote: »

mtaratoot wrote: »

Oh no!
Not ethyl butanoate and pentyl acetate. I will never be able to eat one of those highly processed yellow tubes of deliciousness again....

mtaratoot wrote: »

Oh no!
Not ethyl butanoate and pentyl acetate. I will never be able to eat one of those highly processed yellow tubes of deliciousness again....

But the real question is, can you pronounce all the ingredients??

I am a recovering scientist. I'm afraid I probably can. Well, most. Maybe not all. Byooo-TAN-oh-ate for sure.

A few years ago, a couple guys went to a college campus and tried getting signatures on a petition to ban di-hydrous monoxide, citing all the chemical reactions it can entice, how corrosive it is, etc. They got over a hundred signatures before anybody figured out they were talking H2O, aka water.

I assume y'all know there's a web site that warns of the many dangers of DHMO.

http://dhmo.org/

There, you can find MSDSes (Material Data Safety Sheets, like for posting in relevant workplaces), an FAQ, press kit, relationship to cancer, obstructionism from the dairy industry (where it's used widely without permits to treat various cattle health conditions) and more.

That stuff can sneak up on you, injure or kill in many ways. And there's so much of it everywhere . . . the level of public ignorance is shocking.