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The jury is still out of saturated fats. The landmark study that said they were OK received a flurry of media coverage but the subsequent criticism of that study by various experts has not. So far none of the leading health authorities (American Heart Association, World Health Organization, European Food Safety Authority,…

Most "natural" foods that we eat are actually the end result of intensive selective breeding over the course of the last several millennia. Mankind has dramatically altered the plants and animal we consume. Animals are meatier and fattier. Fruits are larger and more sugary. Nuts and vegetables have been bred to eliminate…

A: Eat them whenever. It doesn't really matter.

Never seen those before. I eat snap peas every day at lunch. I grow them in my garden. They look like this: or like this after you pick and wash them: They're low calories and quite filling.

I pay attention mostly to total calories. Too many calories is what makes you overweight which in turn is the cause of or what exacerbates many health problems. Get your calories under control first and foremost and then worry about macros and micros - or just don't bother with the latter like me. There's enough other…

^^All of this^^ Tried it. Worked for a while (many months). Couldn't keep it up and in the long run and I gained everything back. Keto means saying no to 85% of everything at the grocery store and 95% of everything on the menu at a restaurant. Sure you can do it for a while but are you really going to live that way for the…

Not true. Snap peas are 35-40 calories for 100g (about 1 cup)

Nuts are delicious but be careful because they are calorie dense. A quarter cup, i.e. a handful (about 28g), typically has around 170 calories.

"A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace..." By the time that song's over, you'll mostly be done with your workout!

Nothing in there about resistance training changing body composition resulting in a 'win' "CONCLUSION: In men, resistance exercise has a similar effect on 24-h EE and macronutrient oxidation as a comparable bout of aerobic exercise. Neither exercise produced an increase in 24-h fat oxidation above that observed on a…

Order whatever you want and when your food comes, immediately divide all of it in half. Eat one half and take the other half home.

Cardio strengthens and conditions your heart muscle, which is the most important muscle in your entire body. Heart disease is still the #1 killer in the USA and there is no way to be healthy without good heart health. The CDC and AHA recommend 150 minutes of moderate cardio exercise per week or 75 minutes of intense…

Hard to know. That's why I always eat uncertain apples to be safe.

It's a question of definitions, really. Running and other cardio exercises do strengthen the heart muscle and so to a certain degree they can be called strength training. However the most common meaning of the term strength training involves strengthening just the skeletal muscles.

I have lost weight with the Atkins diet and even kept it off for over a year. Ultimately I found the diet too restrictive and slowly gained it all back. This time around I just kept track of CICO and have managed to keep the weight off for over two years now. I like the freedom of being to eat anything that fits within my…

And that's where most of the calories are. They're pretty stingy on the meat.

Then answer is: they'd be inedible. Apple trees not cultivated by man almost always produce hard, sour, small crab-apples. The apple was one of the very last fruits to be domesticated because their complex genetics makes it unlikely that the fruit will turn out to be edible, even if you are careful to pollinate only among…

The huckleberry has been largely supplanted by the tastier, seedless and easier to grow blueberry. If there was a big enough market for huckleberries, the big agriculture businesses would have focused their resources on developing them, but there isn't. Most other native North American foods have been supplanted by crops…

Read it again. Everything you eat is man-made to a certain extent and there's really no such thing as eating natural anyway. For good or for bad, man is a part of the ecosystem he inhabits and therefore both affects it and is affected by it. There's no way to draw the line or make the distinction you are trying to make.

The only way I can control myself with nuts is to measure out a 1/4 cup and then quickly put the rest away for the rest of the day. Another alternative is to buy those 100 calorie packs of nuts and limit yourself to one a day.

Pretty much every food you eat has been altered by man in some way. Before we got our grubby hands on them, "natural" corncobs were very small, apples were small, hard and sour, almonds were poisonous, sheep would attack you, and cows didn't have huge udders that produce far more milk than a calf could ever drink. Unless…

Baking soda is man-made. So is table salt. And sugar. Botulinum is naturally occurring and one teaspoon of it is enough to kill one-quarter of world's population. To kill the bacteria that produces it, we often add highly concentrated man-made sugar and/or man-made acids to our foods. Fancy that.

Or how about adding seasonings to your soup? When it comes right down to it, any and all forms of cooking that involve more than one ingredient are "adding chemicals that weren't naturally in the food".

Almost every type of food you eat is the result of long term genetic manipulation. Humans having been breeding plants and animals for thousands of years, always selecting for the traits we desire: bigger fruits and grains, smaller or no seeds, fattier meats, better tasting, more disease resistance, more tolerant of human…

But you trust some foreign doctor trying to sell books on his cheesy looking website? In any case, the quoted article is from Harvard University's School of Public Health, not from the AMA or the like.

Even on a 1200 calorie perday diet, eating a 300 calorie McMuffin as your breakfast is perfectly reasonable. The way people go wrong at places like McDonalds is with all the other stuff on the menu, especially when they supersize them : hash browns, french fries, coffee with a lot of cream, soda, desserts. Stick with just…

^^^^This * 1000000^^^^ Weight loss is roughly an 80/20 split between diet/exercise. It may even be closer to 90/10. That generally means eating less, especially calorie dense foods, and counting those calories. You can lose weight without any exercise at all however you cannot out-train a bad diet. You lose weight in the…

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Maybe. Maybe not. The scales at the grocery store are periodically calibrated and inspected by the state for accuracy. Your home scale, not so much. There's some guess work in dividing a steak into halves or quarters or whatever, but probably not much more than an ounce either way. Over time, this kind of error cancels out…

My cleanse may sound a bit unorthodox but it works wonders. Really. First you need to purchase this specialized cleansing substance. Normally it is a solid white but some variations are a green gel. Next you must also purchase a thin brush with a small clump of bristles on the end. I know this sounds expensive but it's not…