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Around 30% of adults are sodium sensitive and a large portion of them don't know it. This percentage increases as people age, suggesting that sodium sensitivity is an acquired disease. High blood pressure is notoriously asymptomatic which is why the medical community dubs it "the silent killer." Because of this, I'm always…
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Tried it and it worked but ultimately grew tired of it. If you can accept living the rest of your life with 85% of everything at the grocery store and 95% of everything at a restaurant being on the Verboten list, go right ahead. I don't want a "kick start" or a "quick fix". I want a diet plan that will work today, tomorrow…
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Um, OP knew nothing about GC but said she was looking for "cool restaurants' while on vacation. GC is about as "cool" as McD's or Waffle House. It's the very epitome of cheap eats, both in price and quality, and so it hardly qualifies to most people as a vacation destination. What's wrong with telling her this? OP came to…
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There is a link between shopping at Walmart and being fat, ergo shopping at Walmart makes you fat. There is a link between driving your car to work and being fat, ergo driving your car makes you fat. There is a link between eating chicken and being fat, ergo eating chicken makes you fat. There is a link between sleeping on…
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Why does this myth persist? A can of Diet Coke has around 40 mg of sodium which accounts for a paltry 2% of a recommended total of 2000 mg per day. Nobody is having sodium problems because they drink diet soda.
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Been drinking it for 20+ years. Zero issues. I drank it when I was overweight and I continue to drink it now that I'm not. Not a very interesting story, although I suspect it represents the vast majority of consumers. The news media prefers to report on statistical outliers, like those who drink 4 cases a day or people who…
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"The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night." - unknown
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While I agree in spirit, the company I work at has decreed that they will pay no more or less than $X per person to cover health care costs. If they end the year in the red, the difference will made up by increasing next year's premium cost for health insurance. Similarly, if they are in the black, the savings is passed on…
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That's it. I have officially heard everything now.
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Swimming is awesome exercise, no doubt, but for some reason it leaves me ravenous in a away that running, cardio and weight training do not.
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About 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure and the percentage increases with age. You can be fine in your 20s and 30s and then develop hypertension in your 40s. Worse, high blood pressure is generally asymptomatic: you can have it and not know it. Almost half of all people with hypertension do not have it under control,…
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Oh my!
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I do the exact same thing. IMHO, counting calories already borders on obsessive-compulsive behavior so why add yet another thing to have anxiety over? I don't need a silly website counter to feel good about my wellness journey. If it helps you stay motivated, that's great, but recognize it for what it is: a crutch. What…
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Shelf life. You can keep cereal bars for weeks on end without them going bad. Stash a bunch in your car, at work, in the pantry, in your gym bag, wherever. Then, whenever you get hungry and it's not convenient or possible to eat "real food", you should have some readily on hand. It can save you that visit to the fast food…
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Yeah, it's easy to heap food so that it overflows your measuring cups but ice cream is semi-solid and fairly uniform in texture. If you level off with a knife, you can't really cheat. Ice cream is kinda like sardines: You can only fit so many in the container.
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Empty stomach before running for me too, although I do drink about half a glass of water 10 minutes before I start running. Just like your mom used to say about swimming: No food at least an hour before.
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Not everyone has a food scale but almost everyone has measuring cups. Scoop the ice cream into the measuring cup or just use the measuring cup to scoop the ice cream right out of the container. Easier than fussing with a scale and tare weight IMHO.
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I low carbed for a little over a year. I lost 40 lbs but ultimately found the diet unsustainable and gained everything back. There's just too much delicious food out there that has a lot of carbs and since calorie restriction is the real key to weight loss and maintenance, I can't see the point of living with an…
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As with all cardio, the intensity is just as important the length of time when measuring calorie burn. A slow stroll for an hour isn't going to burn anywhere near the same as an hour of brisk walking. It's certainly possible to burn 755 calories in an hour by swimming but I'd imagine you'd have to be frogging at a pretty…
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Just like a lot of people are "social drinkers", I suspect there are a lot of "social eaters" out there too. They eat heartily with friends out in public and claim to indulge all the time but generally don't bother much when they're home alone or with family.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=foods+high+in+potassium
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If you don't mind waiting 7 to 10 years for the new trees from seed to bear fruit... Even then, apples are notorious for not "breeding true", i.e. the offspring generally do not have the traits of the parent trees, particularly the traits we humans desire most like large fruit, soft flesh and a sweet taste. Chances are, if…
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I hear overweight people eat a lot of chicken too so maybe we should all avoid that as well, right? Remember folks: correlation does not equal causation.
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Reporters are also infamous for printing the "shocking" or "revolutionary" conclusions from studies without doing their due diligence and reporting on the often vigorous peer criticism that follows a study being published. Science very rarely does a 180 degree shift on anything but you'd think that given the way it is…
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For continuous cardio - the kind where you're sweating and your heart is pumping - I'd believe it. A lot depends on the intensity of the workout and your weight.
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Too much of anything can be a toxin. Water can be a toxin if you drink too much. Also, your body's natural processes continually produce wastes and toxins so there really is no way to cleanse your body completely of toxins. Fortunately, your kidneys, liver and lymph nodes do a fine job filtering out the toxins in your body…
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No. Weight is a function of CICO. Since people tend have the same eating and exercising habits, this gives the appearance of a settling point but that is confusing cause and effect. It's your habits that determine where your weight tends to settle. The settling point of your weight does not predetermine your habits. The…
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that finish writing their sentences and
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Just to zero in on this part of your post: Fats and oils don't evaporate however they do have something called the "smoke point". The most important thing to know about the smoke point is that you don't want to heat oil so that it gets there. At the smoke point, oil starts to break down, creating free radicals which are…
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Actually I would argue the opposite. For centuries, the Romans would boil down grape leaves into a sweet liquid (defrutum) that was used in all sorts of ancient recipes and for food preservation. Unfortunately, there's evidence that the resultant liquid often contained lead acetone which we now know to be poisonous. The…
