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My nephew who just started kindergarten is quite happy to eat vegetables and try new foods when he is with his mom or dad, but he's much pickier when he isn't with them. My sister just packs him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some Goldfish crackers every day because she knows he'll eat at least half of his lunch…

I am not a parent, but it's an amazingly huge responsibility to take on. You have at least 18 years of responsibility for keeping people safe, fed, housed, and clothed. They emerge with no knowledge of our society and the ideal is that at the end they'll be able to take care of themselves and maybe repeat the whole cycle…

Sadly, I don't think they're stock photos. I think they are unstaged photos of real children, taken by adults without the knowledge of their parents, being passed around online as examples of poor parenting or even "child abuse." I feel like this is WORSE than OP taking them and posting them herself.

Did you add it to the general food database or did you create it as a "My Meal" or "My Food" option?

Working A LOT. And spending time on Twitter!

I got that same ad and took the quiz too. My stats: 5'4, 110, 42. Got the same message about 25 pounds in 12 weeks. Completely agree that it's potentially very dangerous for people who have an ED but also, they've got to be lying. The whole promise is that you can eat whatever you want for five days a week and then…

I don't know if someone has pointed this out yet, but part of the proliferation of vending machines in schools was an attempt to address funding issues. Schools actually get to keep part of the money made from the vending machines so it's understandable that some schools would think about the programs that could benefit…

I feel as if this is the type of conversation that could be vastly more productive if we grounded it in what these researchers had actually looked at and what conclusions they drew from it. Are they referring to people who are "significantly overweight" or "over obese" or are they talking about people who are twenty pounds…

I've seen lots of people say that. There are people who hold that any type of carbohydrate and/or sugar is poison and should be avoid.

But that's not the situation. The situation is that if you don't want a vaccine, you can choose to cook your own hamburger and work out at home.

If I was in the hospital for something urgent and got sick with a vaccine-preventable illness because the health care workers taking care of me refused to get a vaccine, I'd feel angry and betrayed. I guess if there's enough of them, they can set up their own hospital where people are fine with getting measles and COVID…

Thank you, I appreciate you taking all the time to write that out and share your research.

Yeah, I feel like from reading this is one problem about gathering information about the long term implications of many diets -- most people just aren't going to stick with any "special" eating style that long.

There are many people in Loma Linda, CA (a blue zone) who don't include animal products in their diet, but it isn't exclusive. Others do eat them.

67% of calories from grains, vegetables, fruits, added sugars, and legumes doesn't sound like a diet based on animal foods. It sounds like a diet INCLUDING animal foods, which we already knew was compatible with human health. It's also not at all relevant to an argument that low carbohydrate is the only healthy diet.

Thank you, if you have time I'd be interested in learning more.

Are there studies that look at the impacts of carbohydrate restriction outside of the context of weight loss? That is, studies where there was no weight loss, but health markers improved? I ask because if people are losing weight it's going to be very hard to determine if it was due to carbohydrate restriction or due to…

Snacking is, by far, one of the easiest parts of my day. I wish everything was as easy!

Calories were not invented. They've always existed. We didn't always know about them. That doesn't change the fact that people could lose weight if they consumed fewer calories than they burned, even if they didn't understand the mechanism. People still got sick before germ theory was developed and we understood how…

Hitting macros is important for some people, it's irrelevant for others. And even for those who try to hit them, hitting them "bang on" isn't something most of them strive for because it's a lot of effort for something that doesn't provide any real benefit. You should see breakdowns of the various fats you're eating…

I would consider this more like calorie banking than IF, as you're still eating during the week -- you're just eating less to help create a "buffer" for the weekends. If you LIKE eating this way and it's working for you, I don't necessarily see the need to change. The only potential concern is nutrients -- if a lot of your…

How do you explain the experiences of people who lose weight and maintain that loss long term while eating frequent meals or eating after 7 PM? What is the evidence that food choices are irrelevant in the blue zones? Most experts seems to agree there is a combination of food choices AND lifestyle factors at play there, so…

OP, I think before you change anything about your food selections or adding more calories, you should take a period of time when you commit to using more accurate methods to measure your intake so you can know what you're currently eating. If you're like most people, it's possible that you're underestimating your actual…

There are some people who do plans like this and find short term success (I'm not sure about long term success, it may happen, I just haven't met anyone who did this long term). My concern is this -- for many people, the experience of eating very low calorie one day will set them up to have poor control the next day. If I…