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I never used to sweat at all when I was unfit, now I do more exercise I seem to have turned into a sweaty Betty, even when I'm not doing anything...!!

Almost certainly a bit of both, although what you eat short term has little effect on your established gut microbiota (for example, probiotics have neglible effect in healthy people) but certainly you do see differences in its composition in people with long term dietary differences. In healthy individuals this variability…

I can't speak for 'metabolic syndrome', however i work very broadly in this field, and the interactions between diet, bacteria and your own body are NOT BS in any way. More and more research is revealing that these are more important than we ever imagined.

I hear those evil fatcats at Big Food put dihydrogen monoxide (a major component of ACID RAIN) into their ready meals! I'm concerned!

I have to try this...

Yep, tons of methanol in tomatoes, you might as well drink gallons of evil diet drinks!

This is based on?....

Corn is delicious, especially alongside a Nandos chicken pitta and garlic bread. YUM!

Makes sense - reminds me of an old advert we had here about british stereotypes (can't remember what company) - 'You take a delicious oriental infusion and dump cow juice in it!'

If I go to the US I expect big food! It's one of the best things about the country - $7 for a pizza that would cost me £15 here in the UK, it's awesome. A 'starter' plate of nachos as big as me. I can't find these things where I am, they are delicious, and they are amazing. If it's wasted then of course that's a shame, but…

Cheap student essentials: Tuna Soup Carrots Bananas Apples Lettuce Brown rice Canned fruit/veg/beans Oatmeal At uni I lived off spaghetti bolognese, tuna pasta bake, protein+salad sandwiches and fruit snacks (and instant noodles...) find the cheapest veg you can and get creative with adding them into things to make them…

Best shape I've ever been in was a few years ago when I went swimming for 30 mins, 5 times a week. I slimmed down ridiculously quickly and developed a bit of 'muscle tone' after only a few weeks. Currently do 30 day shred and the like, they do work, but nowhere near as well for me! Swimming is deceptive, you engage a lot…

Aye, completely true, but unfortunately I can't afford to plonk down that much money at the moment! Will keep looking around for a slightly cheaper retailer!

Oh I agree that it's good value for what you get, but I'm being greedy and wanting what I can't currently afford :)

That second website is super cheap! Do you know if they're reputable?

I tried this once, I did lost weight very quickly (about 4 pounds the first week, which is too fast for me) and gained it back as soon as I stopped. I decided to do it because I really like lean protein foods, cottage cheese etc and figured I'd be fine with the restrictions, but honestly, I was constantly starving, and…

'Diet drinks lead to obesity' If there is in fact a genuine link between diet drinks and obesity, it can only exist because either people who drink diet drinks tend to take in higher amounts of calories anyway, or somehow, drinking diet drinks leads to increased consumption of calorific foods, making you overeat. If you…

I started doyouyoga as well, I really like the instructor, none of the spiritual mumbo jumbo that used to put me off yoga classes!

Under mild dehydration, your body can shut down up to a third of it's processes? That doesn't sound right to me...

I never get this notion that if something goes against a 'paradigm' it is buried. If I was the person to prove that an accepted paradigm was false I'd be set for life.

'Questioning' is what scientists do all day, every day, professionally. The fool is the person who reads an article and thinks they now know better.

I started adding some egg whites to my scrambled eggs to give me a little bit more bang for my buck. Hardly any calories yet I feel fuller much longer. Still two yolks though, because they are clearly the best bit...

It costs a few pounds, but Fitness Blender have a few 8 week plans that use their videos from fitnessblender.com I just started their first plan and it looks good, although some days require a decent time commitment (1.5 hrs). It's 5 days a week at first with optional cardio day, 1 compulsory rest, then goes to 6 days a…

I did it for 30 days straight, but I'm quite young and don't yet have any troublesome body parts, plus I was using very light weights. No injuries or strain but that was probably somewhat lucky. I think the recommendation for Ripped in 30 has changed to 5-6 times a week, so I would apply that to 30 Day Shred as well.

I just had my 'bad' month - had two holidays, one of them at a french chateau with all inclusive 7 course meals. GAHH!! Surprisingly enough, I only seem to have gained about 2lbs after a month of not really watching what I ate, but I agree with whoever said above that it could be a slippery slope. So I decided now that…

Of course in an ideal world they can be! I would hope that mine could be replicated by anyone. Various factors contribute to why some cannot. Lots of experiments are long and difficult, technically challenging, and getting that final figure that is good enough quality to publish can be a miraculous feat of scientific magic…

That is completely untrue. Peer review is the process by which your 'peers' in the field review your manuscript and add criticisms. Papers are revised according to the reviewer comments before the paper can be published. As I said, I have several published papers, and noone but me has ever carried out those experiments as…

I have published several of my own, so yes I am very familiar. There is no criterion in the process that says you have to prove the study could be independently replicated. A good peer review process simply demands that the information is there should anyone care to try.

Some of these are definite problems with the scientific process and form part of what I was saying about learning to spot the warning signs! I disagree about the holistic approaches, only because for me personally I believe a trial trumps an anecdote (sometimes it is true, strange things happen and noone can tell you why,…