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^^^^ this and seasoned with whatever I can gather

<3 Red Dwarf :flowerforyou: RE the question in the OP: Yes I like a nice firm toned *kitten* on a man. And if you want me to put an evolutionary spin on it... well developed glutes is a sign of an efficient biped. I think we evolved to find butts sexually attractive around the time we evolved to be bipedal. Current…

most binge eating is the direct result of eating too little. Don't try to lose weight quickly. Lose it slowly. Ensure you're feeding your body all the nutrients it needs including protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals, fibre and water. The total number of calories should be enough that you don't get any of the…

OP please pay attention to this you do NOT need to lose any more weight. You need to gain muscle. You do that by doing strength training and eating properly. You need to eat 2054 cals/day just to keep your body functioning properly. Eat this much, and include plenty of protein, and do strength training. If you have access…

There was a man who was born with two penises who might appreciate that urinal set-up very much.

and she'll be whining to other people about how unfair it is that you can eat whatever you want and stay thin and how you must have really good genetics or whatever....

on a more serious note, ice cream really can kill. if someone were to fall into a huge vat of ice cream and be unable to get out, they could die of exposure. Although at least they'd be able to eat ice cream to keep themselves alive as long as possible.... of all the possible ways to die, it wouldn't be the worst...

Speaking of finding unicorns..... I'd love to get in a time machine and do Jane Goodall style studies on Ardipithecus ramidus, various Australopithecines and Homo erectus, plus field studies similar to how they study modern hunter-gatherers on Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, whatever Homo erectus evolved into…

I'm obsessed with palaeoanthropology and I'm quite interested in primate biology generally. My favourite primate genus is Homo (although I'm not sure what species of Homo is actually my favourite). Pan is also a pretty cool genus although I wouldn't want to socialise with them.

I think you need to go back to basics with some of the science. Calories are a unit of energy, just as centimetres are a unit of length. So if a serving of any particular food contains 100 calories, this is a statement about how much energy there is in that food. Your body uses this energy to keep your cells alive and to…

Start lifting now. 17lb isn't that much to lose, so have only a small deficit to ensure you don't lose any lean mass. Cut first, then do a bulk - keep lifting through cuts and bulks. Starting strength or stronglifts 5x5 are my recommendations for lifting programmes - or anything that follows a similar format.

yeah I think you're right about a lot of those things. Just I wouldn't restrict it to a paleo-like diet... I function best eating meat and dairy. I've done vegan, I've done vegetarian, I've done meat without dairy diet... but I do feel best eating meat and dairy, including a significant amount of red meat. But there are…

I don't doubt you - I just think that these things have been exaggerated - a book on amazon =/= a peer reviewed study. Also, it's not necessarily genetic differences in the plants. Plants grown in poor soils have a worse nutrient profile than those grown in rich soils - it's easy to cherry-pick data like this. And there's…

There is truth in this...... the problem is that it ignores the fact that some populations have adapted to post-neolithic diets (e.g. the ability to digest lactose as adults in Europeans and Masai people) and also the diet commonly pushed as "paleo" online bears no resemblence to actual hunter-gatherer diets. But people…

the palaeolithic era was huge... spanning more than 2 million years H. habilis was different to us but H. sapiens evolved around 150,000 years ago, and H. sapiens from around 100,000 years ago had similar skeletons to modern humans ETA: a palaeo diet based on Homo habilis would be interesting - but I think it would make…

the most interesting thing is that people who are descended from dairy farming/herding populations have evolved the ability to digest lactose as adults. This has happened separately in Europeans and the Masai people of Africa (i.e. different mutations happened separately in these populations) - so people have adapted over…

It's incorrect. People in the 1600s were not a foot shorter, unless they were improperly fed as children. Which is totally possible. But it's not a genetic/heritable change. Bad diet in childhood restricts adult height. Even today, the average height in many impoverished 3rd world countries is several inches shorter than…

I really need to learn to be much more concise in my explanations because this is exactly what I meant. Natural lifespan of someone who lived a healthy life and didn't get killed hunting =/= average age of death... average age of death can be a very misleading statistic. If you have a society (which is typical in…

There are skeletons of elderly people that can be dated in terms of age of death. Cultural evolution has not been a case of things getting better and better. There are phases where people had harsher lives and phases when people had easier lives. 200 years ago lifespan would have depended on culture and where you lived in…

my daughter's 8th birthday party I invented a game - balloon volley ball. Like regular volleyball but instead of a ball you have three balloons tied together.

Palaeolithic Homo sapiens had the same lifespan as modern humans. Neanderthals (a different species of human, Homo neanderthalensis) had shorter lifespans, and Homo erectus (an earlier species) had even shorter lifespans. Nothing to do with their diet - we evolved to have longer childhoods and longer lifespans to be able…

Then you're not doing them wrong. Muscle soreness does not mean you had a better workout than if you did the same workout and didn't get sore. Personally, I get soreness from doing a new exercise, the next time I do the same exercise, I don't get sore, or any of the times after that, even doing the same workout with…

the lack of aching muscles does not mean you're doing them wrong. why do you think you're doing squats wrong? If it's just the lack of aching muscles, then ignore that, it means nothing. If it's something else then please say what it is and maybe there are other things we can suggest to help

you're only 3 inches shorter than the average male neanderthal and they were possibly the strongest humans that ever lived. Nearly a million years of natural selection for extremely strong individuals who could take down large mammals with thrusting spears (i.e. no throwing spears) and withstand ice age winters resulted in…

No, because Shroedinger's cat is perfectly capable of observing whether it's dead or alive, thus rendering the whole experiment meaningless. The experiment needs to be repeated with a more stupid animal.

...they say: "Can you tell me how to get to lie-ses-ter square?"

are you sure that they're logging everything they're eating? When I log my food, I usually can't be bothered to actually log my last meal of the day, because my diary is there to tell me how many calories, protein etc to eat, not to be a public display. So it quite often looks like I'm regularly eating around 1200 cals/day…

when I was in the Gulf, most places that sold shawarma put both hummus and garlic mayo in the wrap. If you're only going to have one of those with shawarma then hummus wins each time.

losing the weight should help a lot with that problem. Also, lifting heavy weights boosts testosterone which also boosts the libido for both men and women. You should check with a physio regarding what kind of lifting you can do with your back injury, but in most cases it is safe to lift and it often helps and I know…

^^^ this 8 glasses a day is stupid advice given that how much water you need to drink depends on how much you sweat which depends on your activity levels and the climate you live in. Once you're hydrated there's no point forcing yourself to drink more water, it just makes you spend unnecessary time in the bathroom. And if…