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You can tell the person speaking at the beginning of that article is paid by a company. Real, objective scientists don't make assertions like the one made at the start of that article. They certainly don't make the mistake of inferring causation from correlation, as here: Absolutely no evidence is offered that drinking…

I'm vegan. I'll be happy to share experiences and tips, but just so you know, a vegan diet alone doesn't make a person a vegan. By definition, a vegan commits to buying no animal products for any purpose, including leather, fur and wool, or products tested on animals (except medicines in many cases, because the law at…

I eat a lot of hummus. I especially like it with jacket potatoes. I buy the different flavoured ones, like pea and mint or red pepper, for variety. However it can contain a lot of polyunsaturates (and not omega 3, which is the only polunsaturate Westerners don't get enough of, but the kind from vegetable oil and most…

Oh, there are plenty of orthorexic followers of paleo and other low-carb and zero-carb diets. There are a few blog posts about the issue from adherents themselves. An orthorexic person will seek out the most ideal diet they can think of and sacrifice everything to stick to it, and it could be absolutely anything that they…

If you think eating cake regularly will not make you less healthy than you would be if you never ate any sugary junk food at all, you haven't read many studies about the effects of sugar. The age-promoting effects and BDNF-lowering effects (and both ageing and lowered BDNF increase the speed of neurogeneration and dementia…

I've had fantastic asthma results already. I've described them here: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/health--injury/alternate-day-fasting-for-asthma/231591.html I'll probably put future updates in that thread, if anyone's interested. :)

Thanks for the advice. :smile: I was quite skinny fat until I started working on it a few months ago, I've normally had it in me to eat plenty. The maximum portion sizes I can handle have shrunk though, presumably along with my stomach, so yeah, more calorie-dense foods are an option if I start running the risk of burning…

Ritalin (generic) has saved my life, I don't even want to think about where I'd be without it. I could no longer compensate for ADD towards the end of my school career and dropped out of university. I was terrible at every menial job I got afterwards and I was terrified and depressed about how I was going to make a living…

Possibilities off the top of my head: Muscle mass increase masking the fat loss, due to all the exercise and protein. Night Eating Syndrome. Miscounting calories. A lot of people have that last problem. E.g. forgetting to consider the calorie content of fruit juice (as much sugar as fizzy soft drinks), tea or coffee, and…

I've been doing this just recently, three alternated fast days so far, also largely thanks to the Horizon documentary. Problem is, despite the wide range of health benefits, I can't find any advice for how to eat this way for people who don't want to lose weight. I haven't weighed myself for a few weeks but last check my…

There is one cause of fat gain that is never mentioned and it surprises me that it wouldn't be known about in a country with such a massive rate of it. Psychiatric medications! I'm not hating, I take one with more stigma than most in fact and defend that medication to the hilt. My point is that a massive proportion of…

I see. It was just frustrating because as far as I can tell, we didn't actually disagree about anything emotive. Only about what the law does and doesn't say, and we don't even have an underlying clash about what it should say. I mean if that can't stay as friendly as it would do face-to-face, what would happen in an…

No apology, UsedToBeHusky? You did kind of imply I'm too lazy to use Google, twice. Reading carefully enough to notice the difference between an amendment to an Act, and completely separate legislation that follows the example of said Act in a highly selective, weak-sauce way, is not lazy.

Those are not new incarnations of the Civil Rights Act, and they're MUCH weaker. They do not come close to the legal protection provided for people based on race, disability, religion, or gender. I've bolded the above. Because LGBT people are not protected classes in the US, the only times it is illegal to discriminate…

You think sexual orientation was covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964!? It's one thing to falsely assume that sexual orientation is included in CURRENT federal legislation (it was only included in HATE CRIME legislation in 2009, let alone anything else) , but you actually think that in 1964, sexual orientation had…

I'm not an American citizen, but as far as I can tell, sexual orientation and gender identity were being discussed as possible additions to the Civil Rights Act as late as 2011, and I can't find any article online indicating that it's happened yet. If you can prove me wrong please do, but I think you'll find that LGBT…

Then religious groups certainly shouldn't be either, but they are and have been for decades. Gay people aren't a protected class (Federally in the US) but Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and even exploitative cults are! So clearly, whether or not belonging to a 'class' of people is a choice has nothing to do with its protected…

Then religious groups certainly shouldn't be either, but they are and have been for decadess. Gay people aren't a protected class (Federally in the US) but Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and even dangerous cults are! So clearly, whether or not a status is a choice has nothing to do with its protected status.

Thanks for the reply and advice! Would you mind explaining the reasoning behind that though? I know you're not supposed to do resistance training every day because your muscles only build new tissue on the days you don't do any. Does daily cardiovascular exercise also prevent this new growth? It would be hard for me not to…