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I had mine out about 15 years ago. Laparoscopic procedure, very easy recovery. Just don't be too alarmed at the state of your gut immediately afterward. They pump your abdominal cavity full of air so they have room to work. This might stretch out your abdominal muscles and made them a little saggy for a few days. It…

Aside from differences in units of volume, one reason it's incorrect to call American measures "Imperial" as many do is that we lack this particular Imperial measure of weight.

Cough drops can soothe, but they're basically just candy. However, what others have said. Don't worry so much about calories if you're ill.

Some of them are regional. Der Wienerschnitzel, Round Table Pizza, and Carl's Jr. are in the western part of the country. You may know Hardee's, and since a merger in 1997, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are essentially the same. I've lived on both coasts and I've never heard of Alfie's, Naugle's, or Alberto's; they may be…

Thin Mints, right out of the freezer. Yeah. It's tough to leave room in my calories for a full 1-sleeve serving, but I'll try.

This is nonsense. Studies that seem to show this have been pretty thoroughly debunked. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157516302113 Such as?

They've been available for a very long time: http://www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1969_Sears_Wish_Book/#563/z

If you were 135 lbs and are now 150, by my math that means you need to lose 15 lbs. Maintain a caloric deficit of 500 cal/day to lose an average of 1 lb/week. (Weight loss is not linear. Some weeks you'll lose nothing, some weeks you'll lose double. How exactly it will go from week to week or day to day cannot be…

It might also be worth trying it with dumbbells instead of a barbell. You can't get stuck underneath or end up with a bar across your throat because you can drop them to the side if need be.

I don't know any families whose kids have one of those. On the other hand, I remember seeing them in the Sears Christmas catalogue every year, desperately wanting one, and never getting it.

You were probably as irritated as I was that when they did a cinematic treatment of Land of the Lost they turned it into a ridiculous Will Ferrell vehicle instead of doing it straight. For Saturday morning kiddie fare, it was actually very good science fiction.

There was a short-lived cereal brand in the 70s called Pink Panther Flakes, branded with (of course) the Pink Panther. It was basically just pink-colored Frosted Flakes, and the big selling point is that the pink coloring would leach into the milk, turning that pink too. I can't believe I ever thought that sounded like a…

This kind of attitude goes a long way toward explaining why some folks think all you have to do to get people to eat more fresh vegetables is to say, "Eat more fresh vegetables!" No, they're not tasty, they're not appetizing, and they're not filling, and you're just going to have to accept that not everyone is like you.…

Olive oil was in fact a major commodity in the ancient world, and exporting it supported the economies of entire nations.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the obesity epidemic, whatever you mean by it.

Mostly, so that people actually want to eat it.

Most of my father's family were smokers, and none of them chain smoked.

Most of the time I run a little over 10km, 5 days/week. I guess that works out to a little over 30mpw. Not really interested in racing, just in staying healthy.

You don't want to do that, no.

They don't appear to be here, so you'll need to create your own personal entry for it. You can do that on the "My Exercises" subtab of the Exercise tab. But it may not be that important. Strength training doesn't burn that many calories, and you won't find a calorie burn listed for any exercises in that category. It's…

The amount of TV you had available depended a lot on where you lived. We lived smack between two major metropolitan markets, and so had only one unoccupied VHF channel plus a small selection of UHF stations. It wasn't actually more choice in the evenings when network programming was showing because there were two sets of…

I for one ate out at least as much in the 1970s as I do now. I certainly ate a lot more fast food than I do now, but there were also diners (this was NJ), pizza, etc.

On looking, it seems some of the examples I'd reach for seem to have substituted sugar for HFCS. Or perhaps they never used them, and used sucrose That doesn't change my basic point, that there's too much sugar in many different foods, and I'm not demonizing HFCS in particular. Oroweat Whole Wheat bread:…

Yeah, I saw another grotesquely misreported story about this study on Yahoo yesterday. I think it was from GMA. They went a step further and featured a woo-based dietician who picked up the "don't worry about calories!" ball and ran with it. Ugh.

Well, there you go. I mentioned my 4-H leader and her farm in an earlier reply. As it happens, she and her sons were all HUGE. They were literally the fattest people I knew. I remember going into the bathroom off her kitchen and wondering how her sons even used the thing -- the toilet seat looked so small next to their…

You need to get different parents, so that you have the genetics to store fat on your body in different places than you do now.

Not bad for a 5 year old necro. Anyway, I mostly grew up in the 70s, in a mixed suburban and rural part of New Jersey. Housing had taken over about half the land in the township, but there were still plenty of working farms around. My 4-H leader's dairy farm was one of them. My house was one of about a dozen that had made…

Check the labels for where they were made. Levi's are no longer made in the US, but all over. I have Levi's made in Mexico, Egypt, Honduras, and Bangladesh, and they all fit differently. (And are of different quality. The zipper broke on the Bangladesh-made jeans a couple of weeks after I bought them.)

Yes, I would hope you'd see an actual endocrinologist for this rather than some "men's clinic" that makes its money selling boner pills and T scripts. T levels are supposed to be decreasing at our age. If they're clinically low as indicated by standard reference ranges, fine. But don't rush into T therapy just because your…

I can only speak about men's jeans, which have always been sold by waist and inseam. The waist measurements have always been approximate at best, since even standard fit jeans sit not at the waist but just above the hips. But yes, I'm convinced that jeans run at least 2 inches larger for the stated waist measurement than…