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I'm on my recumbent bike for 1 hour every morning then one or two 25 minute walks per day at work, typically eat at my desk. Planks and other core exercises plus pushups mostly daily to try and keep at least some muscle tone there while I lose.

I'm probably 15-20 percent, although my Fitbit Aria consistently estimates me around 10-12 percent (yes, I know it's inaccurate)

https://fee.org/articles/health-insurance-is-illegal/ This whole thread is based on a faulty premise, anyways, at least as far as the USA is concerned.

I'm a donut locavore. I've done the Dunkin and KK, but was never impressed by either.

My fiancée just got one, she's excited about it. I am a little intimidated by all the buttons and dials, I confess. I'd like to try making some steel cut oats in it.

Yeah. I can't speak for others, but moderation was just too difficult for me. Abstinence is far easier and much less complicated, requires very little effort after the first 6-12 months.

I found it very difficult to cut back on booze years ago. Ended up quitting entirely. What's nice is I have lots more room to eat sweets and junky things when I like, because I'm not drinking my calories anymore.

I use this stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Nano-Shampoo-Dr-Proctor-Ounce/dp/B0007A5M5Q/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1503609764&sr=8-1&keywords=nano+shampoo It's more expensive, and it definitely gives me better (more) hair.

I typically burn about 1,000 calories per session in about an hour workout - but this is only because I've worked up to the point where I crank my recumbent bike up to the max setting (wasn't always the case). Yes, I'm pretty sure it's accurate.

About four years ago the idea of limiting my drinking to "one standard drink" per night was a joke. I've since become a teetotaler for health reasons. Big positive of all of that is there's a lot more room for me to indulge in sweet treats (ice cream and donuts are my faves!). If I want empty calories, I say go big or go…

I don't know why there should be any morality to this at all. It's about actuarial tables and relative risk, and how to weight it appropriately when charging premia to insurance subscribers to the point where an insurance company can make a profit.

I can't speak for your situation, but for me, I had to stop before I got too skinny. Although a weight in the low 170s would have put me in the midrange value for what is considered "normal" for my height (six foot two) based on standard BMI tables, it became pretty clear that anything in the 180s or lower made me look…

Simethicone, a long walk or run, and lots of hydration.

If I don't get my daily hour on the recumbent (or run) I get very antsy and feel gross when I eat.

How much medical treatment (preventative or interventional) is "enough"? Who gets to decide what is "needed"? The federal government has been (unsuccessfully) creating and re-updating formulas and new systems for funding, reimbursement, pricing, etc. in order to forecast demand and properly dole out the always-limited…

Suppositions about "understaffing," whether regional or otherwise, don't address the larger point about the fact that VA care is truly a case of unlimited demand (because care is "free") always meeting limited supply. Moreover, because there are no price signals in play, the VA either overstaffs and has clinics and…

Run slower. As long as you're running and not walking, it doesn't even matter if you're super slow. That's how I started. Also make sure you have good shoes.

The VA is a single-payer system. All the bills are paid for by the taxpayer. All providers, all services, all materials and equipment are paid for by Uncle Sam. The VA is interesting. Typically patients enrolled in VA care and receiving treatment report high satisfaction with their providers and care (with some…

This entire thread is predicated on an odd premise, leaving aside the derailment of this thread into amusing political side-debates. Assuming we're talking about *actual* medical insurance (as opposed to the so-called "insurance" that's legally mandated in the US today) our own individual opinions as to what insurance…

The same thing that allows you to believe in fairies and unicorns.

This is exactly the attitude I find so interesting about so many in the UK when it comes to the NHS and government-run healthcare. It's like a point of patriotic pride for so many of them, and in the end has very little to do with how it actually performs.

Yeah, you're right. I may have the details wrong on the margins.

I thought it was... (for example: http://healthcoverageguide.org/part-one/reasons-to-purchase-group-coverage/) Anyways, the point is the tying of health insurance to one's job is a side effect of government intervention (as is hyperinflation of medical costs). Each time government has intervened in the market for…

... and the fact that quality health insurance for most in America has been invariably tied to people's employment is a side-effect of the disastrous government policy of making the cost of group health employment benefits tax-deductible for employers.

Happened to me too. Wear more sweaters. That, or you could start saying 'yes' to donuts more often again.

Knowing what I know about how added body weight increases the risk of developing so many different diseases, the answer is - of course, if you want to make money as an insurance company, you need to charge more for lifestyle choices that might cause you to have to pay out more for claims. But, it doesn't really matter. In…

My understanding is that caffeine's role as a diuretic has been heavily overstated. A caffeine-naïve person dosing themselves with anhydrous caffeine pills, sure, some diuretic effect is seen. But for a regular coffee-drinker, coffee is adequately hydrating and whatever effect the caffeine has is more than offset by the…

Glazed buttermilk bars, apple fritters, crunchy Reeses peanut butter cups, and basically any flavor Magnum bar.