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What appears to be obligatory is the moderation brigade railing against someone's perfectly safe personal choices, which she has explained respectfully and clearly.

I've heard a lot of addicts talk about drugs like that, too. In seriousness, any dietary change ever is more often a road to failure than success. The success rate for people who change their eating habits is abysmally low, regardless of what that change entails. Criticizing someone's changes, especially when they've…

So, they should be saying "eating a severely calorie restricted diet will allow you to continue to lose weight, but your body will cannibalize itself and you'll die pretty quickly" instead? Sure, that's definitely more accurate. I'm just not sure it's a point worth railing against so vociferously. In either case, the point…

Perhaps, but not with the evidence in the article.

ironscience.co.uk sells Whey Isolate for £44 per 2.5kg. A scoop is 30g, so that'll give you around 80 scoops if my math is correct. Not a bad price. Other than that, there's always "eat more meat". As for how much protein, opinions vary quite a bit. Looks like your goal is set up to be around 80g -- which doesn't seem…

Glucose, fructose, etc., are the same, regardless of whether they come from natural sources or not.

Couple points of clarification: 1. Your body does not need to intake dietary carbohydrate to function properly. 2. "If you deprive yourself...you are more likely to fail." That's said a lot, but I've yet to see any convincing evidence that failure rate for the (rather loosely defined, if you ask me) "deprivation" diets are…

Some quick responses below: That's fairly common on low carbohydrate diets, in my experience. Plateau for awhile, then lose weight pretty quickly, then plateau for awhile...etc. I've had times where I've plateaued, weight-wise, but lost inches. I'm guessing it had something to do with water retention, but I didn't bother…

"Carry on with the anti-vegan stuff." There has been very little of it in this thread. There have been a lot of good actors making a lot of good commentary across a wide range of dietary beliefs. Your post could have been informative and interesting -- the first line being key, if you had fleshed it out a bit -- but…

I should probably have put the word "well" in there, in order to be more clear: "dietary cholesterol does not correlate well with blood serum cholesterol." I think, in so much as dietary lipids reflect caloric intake, there exists an obvious connection between the two (i.e., if you were to not eat food, you would not have…

Why the need for the snark, then? There's a legitimately good conversation happening here among a reasonable group of people with far different viewpoints. If it "gets old," as you say, then why not either quit perpetuating it or join in the good discussion that we'd previously been having?

That poster is correct. Dietary cholesterol intake does not correlate with blood serum cholesterol levels (in fact, carbohydrate metabolism is a better mechanism for blood serum cholesterol production).

I think there's something very important here that might get lost in all of the other awesome that made up this post: that there are very important real-world ramifications to the extrapolation of an individual dietary philosophy to the population at large. For instance, at a personal level, a person might believe, for…

There's been very little anti-vegan stuff in this thread.

Sweet. When will you be over? :laugh:

That was the part of the post that made me do a double take, actually. Like Texas is a place well known for it's infringement upon and general distasteful attitude towards personal freedoms? Huh?

Yes. I was wondering what world they lived in where pomegranate seeds were like popcorn. Oh, and you must eat your corn kernels with a teaspoon.

I googled this. It was worth it for this page: http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/low-fat-raw-vegan-popcorn?xg_source=activity

I appreciate your reply and thoughts -- and the idea of retired egg chickens hanging around and doing retired-chicken stuff (which, in my mind, involves chaise lounges and umbrella drinks) made me chuckle. I have an active imagination at times. I think that there's a lot in here that we agree upon (as there was in the rest…

Do you people have stairs? And if so, would you mind coming over to vacuum? I can't vacuum my house in 10 minutes.

Thanks for the response - I didn't meant to pry into something private. I don't think there's anything wrong with vegetarianism or veganism -- it's a personal choice and all are free to make their own. I just thought it was interesting how multiple people can approach the same issues (regarding animal treatment, food…

Drink scotch. It's 0 calories.* Problem solved. *this is a lie.

In fact, being consciously aware of them likely aids one in overcoming them.

Ah, sorry -- the quoting confused me. For what it's worth, absent metabolic issues, I don't disagree with what you wrote. I just wanted to address specifically the "relaxed life" comment that was made.

I actually have a real question for this thread, since we seem to have attracted a good cross-section of vegetarian/vegan types. Why did you choose vegetarianism/veganism? For those who may have done it out of an animal cruelty/respect/etc. type motivation, do you believe that people who choose to continue to eat meat…

God, I wish you had been around to tell me this BEFORE the cops showed up...

Can't reply, eating an oak barrel.

What is ignorant or hateful about pointing out that building your heart muscle is a bad thing?

Just ignoring the fact that you were wrong about heart building?

Your second and third paragraph are not responsive -- or, at least, are responding to something other than what I said. There's this often repeated comment here that restricting carbs somehow denotes a poor relationship with food, or that it's some sort of horribly restrictive philosophy that causes people to be constantly…