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I think you are giving him too much credit. But I could be wrong (hey, it happens). If you are right, it would have been much less confusing if he had simply said, "as you lose weight, you will need to adjust your caloric intake to continue to lose weight." But then again, that's exactly what anyone who has done any…

Ok, when I put in my baseline information, it spits out my baseline diet as 2871 calories/day. This is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off. By over 500 calories. And my numbers come from actual data based on actual me - I keep a spreadsheet of my daily weight, body fat %, and calories in. I…

"That the conventional wisdom of 3,500 calories less is what it takes to lose a pound of weight is wrong." Well, right off the bat this guy is wrong. The number 3,500 comes from the number of calories (which is a unit of heat) it takes to burn a pound of fat. Burning muscle takes fewer calories. None of this has anything…

"As an investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he tries to figure out why 1 in 3 Americans are overweight." Because we eat too much and exercise too little. Can I have some grant money now??

You can't repel flavor of that magnitude!!

Fat burns calories at rest, too. In fact, muscle only burns about 4 calories per pound more than fat. So if you dropped ten pounds of fat and replaced it with ten pounds of muscle, you're looking at a roughly 40 calorie per day increase in energy expenditure... or roughly 1/2 of an oreo cookie.

I agree with OP. There's a reason it's called "taking the easy way out." It's much, much easier to just rip open a bag of potato chips and watch some TV than to go for a 30 minute run and then come home and cook a healthy dinner. If it were "easy", everyone would be thin and healthy.

I think this is something that only young people think... :wink:

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Try running faster... then you'll be begging for the walk break :wink:

But I do agree the Time cover was in poor taste and obviously intended to cause controversy. No mother should ever be made to feel inadequate because she chose not to breastfeed.

True, mothers do not "own" their children. But they *are* in the best position to determine the needs of the child. Throwing out blanket statements about children being "kept dependent" because of extended breastfeeding contributes zero to the discussion. The World Health Organization recommends *minimum* two years and…

I'm certainly not judging that opinion because I think people should do whatever they feel is best. But I would like to point out that, although you can meet nutritional requirements through food, only breastfeeding offers benefits to the immune system. A human child does not fully develop their immune system until the age…

:huh: I would try to explain how you're wrong, but clearly you know me better than I know myself, so why bother.

You think I'm lying?????? Seriously, F this thread.

You know what this thread proves? That people who oppose attachment parenting haven't a clue what it actually means. And yet, their ignorance doesn't prevent them from criticizing it anyway. To me, it's ridiculous to make an infant sleep in a crib. But I would never criticize a parent for making that decision because it's…

I have a spine and my child co-sleeps. He's five. I wouldn't change a thing. Now what?

Mission accomplished :tongue:

That is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard another human say. Congratulations.

It's a good thing we have you to tell us all how to raise our kids.

This is based on your years of field research? :huh:

I think the point of the cover was to spark just this kind of debate. I think that all of the people who say breastfeeding at 3 or 4 is "weird" or "unnatural" are dead wrong and it's long past the time when the United States needs to move past the sexualization of the breast. WHO recommends MINIMUM two years. And both the…

This!! 100% this!!!! The whole reason mammals have breasts is to suckle their young. A human child's immune system doesn't even fully develop until around 7, so at ages 3 and 4 the child is still receiving benefits from breast milk. There's absolutely nothing "disgusting" about it - it's one of the most natural things a…

Walmart?

Yikes, I never realized how much a face-hugger looked like a vagina...

As a non-comic book fan (so perhaps a more "mainstream" view), I do not see the point in making this movie (other than making $$ of course). The Batman reboot made sense because the other ones were more campy and fantastical whereas the Nolan Batman movies are gritty and realistic (-ish). But this new Spider-Man looks like…

What does that mean, exactly?

And I guess there is where the Libertarian in me says, "so what?" This my personal belief - the state should not be in the business of trying to affect change in society. The role of the government should be to provide for the common defense and protect those who do not have the means to protect themselves (e.g. prevent…

Hydrogen hydroxide, actually.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Again, I'm a non-Christian who got married in a courthouse and is pro gay marriage. But to say that marriage in the United States has been a mostly religious practice to me is just stating the obvious. And acknowledging it doesn't weaken the pro gay marriage position at all.…