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For salmon skin-on vs. skin-off can make a difference.

It's because heating doesn't kill all the Bacillus cereus spores and these can cause food poisoning. The main problem is how the rice is stored though; the B. cereus multiply when the temperature is right (warm) so it's more of a problem when keeping the rice warm for any length of time before serving (i.e. kept in a bay…

In previous before/afters the change was a lot more subtle than it seems to be in these shots. Maybe the short period of increased calories did some good

You must be the oldest person on MFP. Congrats!

I'd have to say no. Most of the advertised premium features actually don't work. Exported data is incorrect (especially exercise which only includes one entry for the day, so if you do more than one type of exercise then you're out of luck). I don't trust the rest of the exported data either because they can't seem to fix…

I also think that Coke No Sugar tastes better than Coke Zero. The difference in taste isn't a vast gap but it is different: Coke Zero has, for me, this slightly metallic taste that Coke No Sugar lacks (edit: and that's a good thing!) I stopped drinking Coke altogether for a while because I don't really enjoy Coke Zero but…

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It's from the word "kecks" (which might derive from "kicks"), meaning breeches/trousers/pants

First, it was a dietician talking to a member of the public so it would not be surprising if they used a term that they might not necessarily use when talking to another professional. Second, the term "starvation mode" is used professionally. Go to Google Scholar and search for (with the quotation marks) "starvation mode"…

I'd like to point out that I've been abducted by aliens three times and that although each time they seemed to be a different species (from different planets maybe, I'm not sure) none of them were green. The first time they were grey with big black shiny eyes that looked like almonds. Well, like almonds except they were…

I'm pretty sure that the OP's dietician didn't refer to MFP's exclusive definition or understanding of starvation mode before using the term LOL Edit: This whole conversation only happened because the person I responded to way up at the start of the thread accused the OP's dietician of being a liar.

Under the sections on humans the first sentence is: Starvation mode is a state in which the body responds to prolonged periods of low energy intake It gives the definition of starvation mode. If something doesn't exist then there would be no definition. Did I once say or suggest that starvation mode caused an unexplained…

And if you read my first post, way up the top there, that is exactly what I said (that the way the term is commonly used is a myth/incorrect/doesn't happen). The fact that people misuse or misunderstand a term does not mean that the term (or phenomenon) doesn't exist: it means that people misuse or misunderstand it.

I meant starvation mode (adaptive thermogenesis is essentially a synonym for starvation mode). Equivalent or closely related terms include famine response, starvation mode, famine mode, starvation resistance, starvation tolerance, adapted starvation, adaptive thermogenesis, fat adaptation, and metabolic adaptation…

Because starvation and starvation mode are different. Starvation is what causes the physiological and biochemical changes in the body called starvation mode.

Yes, because MFP is such a reliable source If you'll read my original post I specifically said that starvation mode doesn't stop you losing weight and that using the term in that way is incorrect. That doesn't mean that starvation mode doesn't exist (it does), it means that people misuse the term. The thread you linked to…

Have you? Starvation mode is a state in which the body responds to prolonged periods of low energy intake They're not hard words to understand Edit: Since everyone seems so adamant that starvation mode doesn't exist, why don't you edit the wikipedia page so that it says that instead of it saying that it does exist. You'll…

Of course it exists. It doesn't exist in the way that is sometimes commonly used; i.e. "I'm eating at a deficit but not losing weight because I'm in starvation mode". That won't happen. But just because people misuse the term doesn't mean that starvation mode is not a real thing: it is, and is a physiological response to…

Have fun taking your iron supplement :P

Your arms are starting to look more defined. Like a woodchopper's arms

I don't see how that would help because carbonated water has a pH of between 3 and 4; i.e. it has about the same acidity as an orange. It's the acidity of diet soda that can cause enamel to erode and therefore drinking carbonated water is pretty much exactly the same as drinking a diet soda.

When you're doing your maths to work out the percentage of a cup to enter, also keep in mind that US cup sizes are different to everywhere else in the world (even Canada uses 250ml compared to 240ml in the US; and within the US there is the legal cup, 240ml, and the standard measuring cup, 250ml)

The reason for that is because there are reference serving sizes for different foods/food-groups. But the number of servings on the packet of food must reflect not how much people should eat (based on the standard/recommended serving size), but what they normally would eat. So you end up with weird fractional parts like in…

@apullum Great post. Just one thing, though. Even though Vitamin B12 is water soluble doesn't mean it's not stored in the body; the liver stores quite a lot of it actually (enough for many years). https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/disorders-of-nutrition/vitamins/vitamin-b-12

All Australian products have sodium content (not salt) on their nutrition panels

Maybe once every year or two

It's a pity the first flavour is made from Canadian cows :(

The recommendations that recommend how many "recommended servings" (to quote the OP), or more often they actually recommend a percentage of total daily energy intake. And they refer to a percentage of total energy intake that should come from added sugars. It doesn't really matter which specific ones I'm referring to…

Well, yes. And that's why the sugar recommendations refer to added sugar and not sugar naturally present in fruit.