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Just more tasty options in the US. A couple of decades ago, all that was commonly available was a handful of lagers from AB or Miller, and they all tasted pretty much the same. If you wanted something that tasted different, you would have to go to a specialty store to find imports. Now my local grocery store looks like…

Do I have this right? Polysaccharides (starches including rice, taters, etc) are metabolized into monosaccharides. Disaccharides (sucrose from fruits and veggies, lactose, etc) are metabolized into monosaccharides. Non-glucose monosaccharides (fructose, galactose) are eventually metabolized in glucose. Dehydrated sugar…

Ruh roh.

No, we don't all know what "clean" food is. If we did, then it would be easy to define. I have been actively studying nutrition for a long time, and I have a colloquial sense of what people mean when they say it, but the specific definition is completely arbitrary, and therefore not particularly useful. That is why you…

Correct. The flavor doesn't really matter.

If you figure out how to do it, let me know and I will pay you for your wisdom.

Don't forget to skip diuretics (caffeine, alcohol) from here on in. Good luck.

Chinese buffet.

To expand on this, Dr. Stuart McGill's research is often quoted by those recommending to avoid crunches. He is famous for the compressive force measurement studies and the pig spine studies he has done. His work suggests that over time, high repetitions of repeated spinal flexion motion may contribute to disc herniation or…

I don't understand the logic behind this. If you are strengthening your core, you will experience some hypertrophy, which you acknowledge. How will making your core larger help with making your core smaller?

Did you see the Most Helpful Posts at the top yet? http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300326/most-helpful-posts-goal-gaining-weight-must-reads#latest Good place to get started

Well that's fine if you want to file ground chuck steak under unapproved food source, but your rules are completely arbitrary. The OP can follow your approved food source list exactly, and still gain weight if she does not achieve a calorie deficit. The point I am making is that the two bodybuilders you mentioned as an…

Kai Greene motivates me to try to eat 9 lbs of beef every day. That is only 36 quarter-pound burgers (throwing aways the buns of course to make it clean). http://muscle-insider.com/features/how-predator-kai-greene-trains-supplements-and-eats

Jay Cutler motivates me to eat more french fries. http://www.fitnflexed.com/article/jay-cutler-asked-about-iifym-interviewer-baffled

If you compare it to PHUL, every day is almost exactly like a "power day" in PHUL. It doesn't have a "hypertrophy day" of increased volume like PHUL does. So if you are coming from a program like PHUL, this would absolutely be a drop in volume for you.

You may want to sit down before you read this one:

Yep. You can't debate math.

Another vote here for PHAT/PHUL. I also think PPL and 5/3/1 BBB are a good blend. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p1

In addition to the multitude of people here who have accomplished the health improvements and physique they want through hard work and many informal hours of studying nutrition, there are doctors, biochemists, and registered dietitians that regularly hang out in these forums and answer questions.

You asked for evidence-based recommendations, you got them, and then you dropped us some vegan propaganda and said that your mind is already made up. Now you are accusing the community of being closed-minded and offensive. What exactly are you looking for from this community? Lifting weights and moderate- or high-protein…

Need a link to the actual study; I'm not willing to take Men's Health's interpretation of the results as a source. My google ninja skills led me to this, which looks like it may be the study in question, but I can't find the full article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19387379 Abstract leaves too many questions…

Heads of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, US Food and Drug Administration, and the USDA (who make the official US Dietary Guidelines), all confirm that diet sodas make you gain weight. [1],[2],[3]

It is described and critiqued under the "PowerLifting Programs" link.

Let's not be silly. Gold would make an impractical dumbbell because it is so malleable. Anyways, we are already experiencing a shortage here because I had the gold reserves forged into ammunition to ward off the peasants.

When the first footman interrupts my cool-down stretching to request permission to halt the polishing of my fingerprints off of the silver dumbbells because the damn peasants are at the gate begging for food again.

Can you describe the metabolites of sucrose, and why they would be less preferential to monosaccharides or polysaccharides when fiber and micronutrient intake is normalized? Serious question here.

It is very common to experience water retention when starting a new weight training program. If your weight doesn't start trending down after a couple more weeks, then re-evaluate your calorie goal if you want to lose weight. However, as a beginner, you should be able to make some relatively rapid progress (both in…

Did you already wade through the stickies under the "Most Helpful Posts" at the top of the forum? Good place to start your research. ETA - except for the "my progressive picks" post. Why is this there? It is series of pictures of a guy on a cut.

Holy kitten! He is selling premium spaghetti shipped to your home as part of a weekly recurring subscription plan? Will we ever see the threshold where the entire supp market collapses under the weight of its own farcical, GH-bloated corpse?

Interesting. I never see those kind of shenanigans in my field. Perhaps it is because we have to design things that work to do a very specific task, so there is not a lot of theoretical interpretation involved. I will chalk it up to the MDs just forgetting the basics because it was that one 8 AM Monday class they took a…