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Do people actually eat nine times a day, who knows, maybe some do. If someone is obese and does eat that many times a day and is eating a diet high in processed foods, which is more than likely in that scenario the constant insulin spiking taking place where there's just not enough time between those meals to put someone…

"Tapping into fat stores" is what the body does normally through the day like between meals or when we exercise but weight loss is about energy balance where your using more calories than what your body requires, period. So it would make sense that when we intermittent fast that is happening as well, but again, at the end…

Ok, I thought it was intermittent fasting you were primarily interested in. Yeah, calories and hormones are both involved. Calories are just a measurement of energy (heat) where the food we eat has mass and is metabolized by the body to release that energy for different functions. Insulin has many functions and I don't…

I'm not familiar with Fung, I've heard of him but never followed him. I did however try to watch a video but immediately stopped because of his style of speech in it's cadence and inflection and it reminded me of a Canadian politician that also makes me cringe every time she opens her mouth and I'm referring to our…

The Mediterranean Diet is a made up myth, no such thing. It's basically a curated, idealized version of eating habits of around 22 countries where most authorities in their wisdom announce some version of food consumption that they believe is ideal with these same authorities self anointed to rate it as the #1 diet in the…

Most food that is available is designed to be overconsumed with sugar a central player of that scenario which bears out in the general health of most western populations. Common sense would dictate that we should probably reduce those foods and consume more of a whole food diet and I suggest one that focuses on quality…

Spiking insulin just before bed or near bed time isn't something I'd recommend.

Do you even like yogurt and cottage cheese or did you just pick those believing these are good health examples?

No not really except 1 hour of pretty intense hockey once a week and I do walk for about 30 minutes on the treadmill after weights twice a week, but that's basically just to help with lactic acid and to cool down, so to speak. Diet is probably the better metric to concentrate on compared to cardio. You might see 100-300…

Eggs benedict with home made black pepper bacon and keto toast with bearnaise and a side dish of guac, spring water and a double expresso.

If your like most people your probably eating lots of junk and processed food otherwise you probably wouldn't be here, then nutrient deficiencies like iron or B vitamins could be a reason. Other reasons lik sleep apnea, mucked up blood sugar levels, insulin resistance or diabetes, dehydration, hypothyroidism and of course…

No, not correct. I took a look and there is no fat in the product. A serving is 10 calories and it may have been a glitch where it says 10g's fat instead, who know, but there is no fat in the product. If a serving did have 10g's of fat that alone is 90 calories and a like I said a serving is only 10 calories and a serving…

You have 40 and I suspect grams left which I'm assuming you've already consumed some so, how many carbs are you consuming a day? Are you counting calories? Anyway, no it's not imperative that someone hits some magical formulated number everyday, but you do want to be close as the days go on. If your counting calories then…

Personally I don't count calories, I lost weight and maintain my weight using a different method but counting calories definitely works. When I did count calories on an earlier attempt, nevertheless, what I did was record the food and the caloric value before I started to actually implemented the diet. I did this for about…

Love goat and get it locally, generally get one a year. For me it doesn't matter what the actual breakdown of nutrients are, they're all close. Focusing on those metrics is not something I would not recommend someone use as a priority, that leads down a rabbit hole I don't recommend. My main protein is local retired diary…

We hear a lot that cholesterol is mostly genetic, alluding to, there might not much we can do about it and I'm here to give you my opinion on this based on the science as I understand it and please feel free to interject an opinion. Cholesterol is by mechanistic action, generic by definition, it can't be any other way.…

It's been a well choreographed ideology by the USDA from the beginning based on earlier flawed data which supports their agenda that animal protein should be limited and their obvious bias toward a plant based diet. Fortunately we have access to actual data for anyone willing to do the work since the WWW became the vessel…

Watching The Sopranos for the first time.

I had IBS type symptoms all my life until I removed most of the fiber in my diet using a keto diet which resolved all of it, literally. Addressing the fiber intake of Americans due to such a high level of UPF's the new 2025 guidelines want the emphasis to be on replacing what's left in the guidelines for meat consumption,…

Yeah, it basically comes down to the difference in regulatory philosophy. One uses a "reactive approach" the USA, and says prove it's unhealthy with conclusive proof because emerging evidence is not enough while the other (Countries) use "precautionary principles" requiring additives to be proven safe before they are…

The US has around 3000 allowable food additives compared to Europe who have around 300 so if we drop some food dye from our list I'm sure most of the population won't miss it, I could be wrong though.

It's mostly propaganda and confirmation bias and the feeling of social belonging within a group where they can get a collective high five when it's mostly just a lack of awareness. It's been this way for about the 20 years that I've been involved in nutrition and now using a ketogenic diet for over a dozen years with…

Yeah, I was responding to the question of "glucose is damaging in the blood", and how the body supplies glucose in the absence of food or carbs and not what people should eat, people have been consuming carbs for thousands of years and have lived long lives. Unfortunately about 75% of the US population have a problem with…

Yup, I'll go along with that. Glucose is not only needed but required for certain bodily functions and the big one is the brain. Also red blood cells don't have any mitochondria, so glucose is needed for energy which is produced from glycolysis. Glucose is also required by other glucose dependent tissues, like the kidneys…

Eating leaner options like 90/10 ground beef doesn’t directly lead to burning stored body fat (adipose tissue) unless you're in a caloric deficit. Basically the meal in and of itself is just added to the bolus consumed and partitioned accordingly and has nothing to do with the immediate breakdown of adipose tissue, just…

I'm one of the weird people here that doesn't count calories so for me when I need to lose weight I just eat less food but just do it a different way. To do that I normally consume 2 meals a day and maybe another small meal which might be considered a snack. Anyway, the plant food I eat is mostly veg so I basically…

Also, to address your question "It would seem to make more sense to have that goal be listed for Unsaturated Fats and have Saturated listed with a goal of 0." A goal of "0" for saturated fat intake would be impossible simply because anytime we find any kind of fat naturally in any food, plant or animal, we'll find a…

Actually reading those points with the exception of trans fats really addresses the disconnect the USDA has from the actual scientific data and a good reason to do your own research, imo. I will give them credit though for saying "synthetic trans fats" which excludes the natural ones. Anyway why saturated fat shows up is…

Your allergic to eggs but can eat them if you mix them into food, so basically your allergic looking at an egg, is that is? j/k Anyway most recipes all over the internet don't have eggs or nuts in them. Can you be more specific as to what kind of food you like, people would be more inclined to help.

Well the medication is suppose to slow digestion and I certainly wouldn't be adding that much traffic to an already jammed up highway, try reducing traffic. Less fiber solved my lifetime constipation problem which also bears out in the scientific literature, it's just not a popular opinion at the moment where fiber has…