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It's because most people in our culture are too fat and want to be thinner/lighter, so always see weight loss as a good thing and weight gain as a bad thing. (how much extra fat someone has may vary, but even people who don't look that fat or who aren't fat according to BMI or body fat percentage often want to lose a bit…

I don't think it's supposed to be a points/merit/demerit system like the thumbs up/thumbs down or positive/negative rep systems you get on some sites... I thought it was purely for the moderators to see what posts are being flagged, and if they agree with the reason for flagging they'll take action and if they don't, they…

^^^ this is good advice. work on strengthening all your muscles though, not just your chest muscles. Don't be one of those guys who skips leg day.

at your height and weight, losing more weight will not make you look the way you want to look. going by your pic you're already slim and I can't see anything wrong with your stomach at all. It's small and does not look flabby. If you want 6 pack abs then you need to start lifting heavy and decreasing your body fat…

if it's that bad that it's stopping you achieving what you want to achieve in life, then maybe counselling/therapy can help you overcome it... they do therapy for phobias and this probably isn't all that different to a phobia. Assertiveness training may help too.

can you put some baggier shorts like football shorts or something over the wicking shorts? Then you get the benefit of the wicking shorts without having everything on display. I'm female and don't see how this is much different to wearing a sports bra with a t-shirt over it. ETA: I'm British so by football shorts I mean…

I wouldn't trust anyone on the internet to answer that kind of question... many edible mushrooms are easily confused with deadly varieties... get an expert who can examine the actual mushrooms (you often have to look at more than just the fruiting body of the mushroom to be sure) who is also an expert on wild fungus to…

39 yr old working lone mother here....

the fall of the house of bacon baconwulf the bacon tales a midsummer nights bacon bacon and juliet

you need to get in the gym and lift weights and eat more... including McDonalds check this out: http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/07/21/meet-staci-your-new-powerlifting-super-hero/ Simply getting thinner/lighter and thinner/lighter does not give you the body that you want... you have to get in the gym and also change…

yeah if it comes on half an hour later, after you've eaten the snack, then maybe it's something in the snack nausea/vomiting from working out too hard happens during or directly after your workout, then fades away as you cool down/recover from the workout. if you feel fine directly after your workout then sick 30 mins…

there's no such thing as non-organic food well, I guess salt is a non-organic food. What makes me laugh is "organic salt"

It is possible to get all the nutrients you need on a vegan diet with a couple of things like vitamin B12 supplemented. For women, iron is another consideration - it's possible to get enough iron on a vegan diet, but not always easy as vegetable sources of iron are not absorbed by the body so easily. Women lose iron every…

there's no such thing as a perfect body anyway.... if you make having a perfect body your goal you'll spend your whole life feeling like a failure. Even the magazine models don't look like their pictures... they're photoshopped. The flaws that get photoshopped out are still on their bodies... nothing wrong with having…

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the less fat you have to lose, the harder it is to lose, so the more conservative you need to be with your deficit. If your deficit is too aggressive, you will lose lean mass along with the fat, which weakens you, makes your bones less dense and also is likely to make you feel weak and tired and prone to binge eating....…

just to add to your post... recent research into common chimpanzees shows that they do sometimes succumb to an AIDS like illness as a result of SIV, while bonobos don't seem to get SIV at all (no-one's sure exactly why)... the original host species of SIV is some kind of macaque/monkey I think (who are unaffected by it…

that's cool... well by my definition it's not paleo unless you hunted or gathered it yourself from the wild using only palaeolithic technology.

thought you were because you were telling someone peppers and legumes are not "paleo".

oh, okay, my mistake. Was just pointing out that there's no rational reason to exclude peppers from being considered as part of any palaeolithic diets as there were palaeolithic people living in the Americas. The whole diet is a nonsense anyway. If someone has food allergies/intolerances they only need to give up the food…

if cavemen thought they were what? They just ate whatever was edible that grew or could be caught where they lived why are you following a diet that you know isn't based in science?

I'm not poo-pooing you. I'm pointing out that this diet that calls itself the "paleo" diet has no basis whatsoever in palaeoanthropology. The way the diet is marketed is extremely dishonest. It says you're supposed to eat like a caveman/palaeolithic person/your ancestors - then the actual diet that you're told to eat bears…

the meaning of "paleolithic diet" is the diet that was eaten by palaeolithic people. there is no other sane meaning of "palaeolithic diet" - so you can't talk about palaeolithic diets without talking about the food eaten by palaeolithic people.....

domestic cats have won at evolution. I mean look at their niche... appeal to humans' maternal instinct by being a fluffy furry small thing about the size of a human baby and with a call that is the same frequency of the whimpering of an infant.... then lie back and enjoy life while the human treats you like its baby and…

Palaeolithic people ate legumes. And peppers may be native to the Americas, but the first humans in the Americas had an upper palaeolithic level of technology, and therefore you can't say that any edible plant native to the Americas wasn't part of any palaeolithic diet.

thanks @auddii it depends which palaeolithic populations... the palaeolithic era spans more than 2 million years and several different species of human lower palaeolithic diets involved raw meat, especially brains and bone marrow, seeing as the first stone tools were made to extract those things from animal carcases. I'd…

me for not making the connection that eating the same amount of food that I ate while training 3-4x/week in ice hockey + games at the weekend would make me get fat after I stopped playing, even though I have a degree in human sciences. I really, truly, cannot blame anyone but myself, not even as a joke. Really, I can't.…

terminally ill people, burns victims and people recovering from major surgery are given heroin (albeit under its pharmaceutical name) as painkillers, so therefore I, a healthy person, can take heroin and I'll be just fine.... not. Just because VLCDs the right thing for someone who's morbidly obese and in fairly immediate…

I consume foods made from the milk from other mammals and I'm happy with that because I have the lactase persistence gene :p -yay I don't drink actual milk (I don't like the taste) but I eat all kinds of dairy products including both full fat and low fat (depends on what product it is and whether I'm consuming it for the…

You need to get over feeling guilty about having more than 1200 cals in a day. Guilt is for people who do really bad things like stealing things or hurting others. Who are you hurting if you have wings and a beer? Don't say yourself, because you're not hurting yourself having them once in a while. It's not like you're…