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The thing is that once you start saying "table salt isn't sodium chloride; it's a mixture" because they added minute amounts of iodine, you can do that with pretty much anything. This butter isn't really butter because it's salted butter. This apple juice isn't apple juice because it's got added vitamin C as a…

The author lost me with the crap about table salt being "toxic." It's not. It may or may not be better than salt which has other minerals in it, but it's not toxic unless you go crazy with it.

People in these countries generally starve when something goes wrong for them: droughts, floods, disease, war. Tackling that is a complicated issue. Populations increase because people have a lot of children, which also occurs for a variety of reasons: need for a large family to work the land, lack of access to…

I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure the reference to "feeding the world's population" was referring to feeding *the world's* population, not just that bit of it that has more food than it knows what to do with. We're not talking about poorer people in rich countries, we're talking about poorer people in poor…

Carnivores are always going to struggle to kill enough to stay alive. Herbivores eat food with a very low calorie density - if you're a large animal living on grass you can eat all day every day and barely get enough calories because grass is a pretty rubbish food really. Even omnivores like rats tend to throw so much…

Personally I get too hungry if I stick to my calories without exercising and eating some of those back. MFP works a deficit into your calorie allowance so if you don't eat your exercise calories back you could go into an unhealthily large deficit and feel like crap. That's the main reason to eat them.

I got my fiancee a Kinect for Christmas. I am tempted. Very tempted.

This stuff happens. With all the flu germs and such that get flung at doctors it's kinda impressive that they don't take more sick days. I guess you develop an immune system of steel in those circumstances.

Are you using them on the same kind of floor? A carpet can make a big difference. Hard floors are better.

The bowel problems aren't likely to go away after a few days because it doesn't "flush out your system." It stops your body from absorbing some of the fat you eat, which then has to go somewhere, so out it goes. While it is probably true that you won't have these problems if you stay on a strictly low fat diet - preventing…

I would say that one of the the main dangers with living on a very low calorie diet when you've got a lot of weight to lose, is that it takes an incredible amount of self-control to stick with it for long enough to lose the weight. It's tough enough keeping up a fairly moderate deficit consistently day after day for months…

Personally I love seeing people at the gym who are maybe a little larger than the average person there (as am I) because it's taking back this stupid idea that we seem to have as a culture that fitness isn't for everyone. Somehow we get this dumb idea in our heads that the only people who should go to the gym are people…

I put in a couple of teaspoons of coffee syrup (such as you might get at Starbucks or the like) to make it sweeter and get some variety. Gingerbread is my favourite. You can get sugarfree versions if you're worried about sugar. Personally I don't worry too much as it's quite a small amount of sugar and it makes a big…

Tbh I can see even talking up healthy food could be seen as criticism. It could come across in quite a passive aggressive way, like taking an overweight friend out to lunch and going on about how "this place has fantastic salads, you know." If she's not stupid she'll realise what you're doing pretty quickly.

The closest I would get is something along the lines of "you seem a bit low - are you ok?" and if she wants to talk about anything then listen and if she doesn't then butt out. If she is depressed then the weight gain is probably a symptom of that and she needs to deal with that side of things rather than the weight on its…

Wii Fit works on a general idea of how many mets an activity is. So it doesn't really take into account how hard you work, only how much you weigh and how long you did the exercise for, and gives a ballpark figure based on that. Your heart rate monitor knows how hard you are actually working and therefore will give the…

I'd avoid commenting unless they ask for feedback. In my case my diary's private but I don't want people to come along and make suggestions because I am an extremely fussy eater and struggle with finding a lot of healthy things utterly repulsive. So it has been difficult for me to make even the changes I have (and my diet…

I'd love to believe the Health At Every Size stuff, but unfortunately I don't. It just seems so much like wishful thinking to me. It screams to me of cherry-picking data (fat people are a bit more likely to survive a heart attack? Really? How much more likely to have a heart attack in the first place?) and the woman who…

For desert I like Sainsbury's blackcurrant burst ice creams - sort of Solero type things. A cool 77cal if memory serves. I also like twiglets, partly because they're very filling for 98cal and partly because I like the thought of upsetting the Sodium Police. I'm just contrary like that. Can identify with the Weightwatchers…

Hi I'm Emmy. I struggle with the tension between on the one hand, loathing all the body shaming, hatred and scorn that gets thrown at women wrt body shape, and on the other knowing that it would be a healthy and positive thing for me to shed some weight. I'm not entirely sure why our culture finds it so difficult to…

Love Brighton SO much. Was there for uni. Back in London now, not far from where I grew up, but never have been very keen on London. Too big and noisy and busy all the time. Plus I find being by the sea incredibly soothing.

I've always self-identified as gay because my balance of attraction has been around 90% towards women and 10% towards men. However, I am currently with a man (and engaged) so I'd self-identify as bi (I suppose - still not really happy with that label since it suggests 50/50) so that I don't confuse the hell out of people.…

You have a liver and kidneys to remove toxic substances from your body. Unless they're failing (in which case you'd get very sick) they don't need help. The detox industry is making a lot of money out of a problem that doesn't exist.

Live in Hither Green and work in New Cross :) Bah I put this twice and now can't figure out how to delete one. So there you have it: my location in stereo.

Live in Hither Green and work in New Cross :)

I am going to have to drop the shred I think. Been pretty much unable to move from pain from my endometriosis for the last few days (this isn't a muscle thing - it's an existing medical condition that causes chronic pain. It isn't caused by the shred but it makes it completely impossible to shred). I can see the shred…

Well, breakfast cereals are a low calorie option so I guess you probably would lose weight, but... That sounds like an incredibly boring way to live/eat. I think it would become insufferably dull after about three days. Not to mention the fact that Special K is not likely to be a very satisfying meal, so you're going to be…

I'm hoping to lose a little from the 40Ds, because I want to be able to buy pretty girlie bras. That said even when I was underweight I was still a 32C so I doubt they'll disappear altogether at a healthy weight. I did have a friend who yoyo dieted and the weight went off her waist and back onto her boobs.

Feel like death today - pain from endometriosis really bad. Started the shred but had to stop because it hurt too much. Not sure if I can continue with this :(

Yeah I can't believe I only have one day left of L1. It's not easy enough yet dammit!