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Widely accepted nutritional advice is that unsaturated fats are better for you than saturated fats. The "essential" fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats, so you need to be getting enough of those. However, obtaining data on how much of the EFAs you're getting is next to impossible, so I wouldn't spend a lot of time…

Amazingly polite employees and police officers, despite having to deal with an adult acting like a two-year-old (repeatedly asking the same questions over and over, and denying the validity of the answers). But I'm guessing the narrator's low subscribership issue isn't because people are repeatedly watching without…

My approach: I weigh once a week in the morning, during the "naked time" between bathroom activities and getting dressed. Once in a while I forget that it's weigh-in day. If I remember when I've only pulled on one or two undergarments, I'll strip back down and weigh myself. If I don't remember until I'm fully dressed and…

Thanks for taking it in the spirit it was meant. On reflection, I might have done better quoting the OP rather than you, but there was something in the phrasing of your first sentence that sent my mind down this corridor, so in the moment it seemed natural to quote you.

Obsession isn't really about how often you weigh yourself. It's about your mental and emotional relationship to weighing yourself. A "normal" behavior for one person can be obsessive for someone else.

And all of your trainer's other clients. Even if they're not physically present, your trainer is a vector to transmit their germs to you.

There are also such long waits for results in many cases that testing is useless for identifying presymptomatic cases and preventing spread (unless people are quarantining while waiting for results, and you could achieve the same results with a mandatory lockdown -- or even a partial lockdown by lottery -- without testing,…

This is just speculation so far as COVID-19 is concerned. The author surveyed existing research to find that exercise results in an increase in an antioxidant that research suggests is helpful in combatting various non COVID diseases. There's nothing here showing efficacy in treating COVID-19. Not even correlation data…

Learn to love poached eggs?

Do you mean it was logged twice in your food diary, and you only want it logged once? On the website, there's a red circle with a white horizontal bar to the right of the food entry; click on that to delete it. In the Android app, touch and hold the entry for a few seconds to a get a pop-up menu that has a delete option.…

MFP does not include your exercise plans in calculating your weight loss, only the exercise that you actually log each day.

@ahoy_m8 , @gradchica27 , @lemurcat2 Thanks for the Trader Joe insights.

I guess I wasn't clear. I'm not talking about using [deaths] divided by [deaths + recoveries] to compare across countries. I'm saying if one were trying to get a handle on how many more people might be expected to die in, for example, the U.S. among the 2.4 million current unresolved cases, and additional 70,000 new cases…

Thanks for the insights. It does sound like they're being very conscientious. I may try going early on Sunday, or putting it off until August when I'll be taking some "staycation" days and can go on a weekday as you suggest. I found that going right after senior hours on a Sunday has worked well at another grocery chain…

I got in the habit of logging black tea and black coffee early on when I was trying to track potassium. I gave up tracking potassium when I realized that if you eat any amount of restaurant food or multi-ingredient packaged/canned/frozen etc. food, it's pretty hopeless, as potassium amounts are seldom available in the U.S.…

So, to go back to a more literal sense of "prepping," does anyone shop at Trader Joe's? It's not my regular grocery store, but I like to go a few times a year to stock up on some of their frozen and non-perishable foods that I especially like. The TJs near me are all pretty small (my sense is that that's true of the entire…

The folks that installed my residential HVAC systems and do my seasonal inspections are always trying to convince me to add a UV light disinfecting unit. I have resisted as I have no allergies and live alone, but if I were in a multi-person household, I think I'd be tempted now in the covid end-times :smile:

^^This. I agreed with pretty much every word you wrote in the longer post, but I think these two paragraphs are so fundamental and so right and get so to the core of the issues that I wanted to pull them out to in the hope that people who tend toward the TL;DR view might see them.

In addition, deaths per cases is not a reliable stat because our incidence of new cases is rising so fast. The majority of our cases are not yet resolved. You cannot treat all those unresolved cases as cases that did not result in death. Many of them will still result in deaths (based on current figures on the Johns…

What good will it do to "let" people go back to work in industries that won't have sustainable demand because too many people aren't eager to expose themselves to the risk of covid, especially if there are no mask mandates and too many other people won't voluntarily mask up? No one has shut down the airline industry, but…

Or they could be given computers and Internet service. There are already Internet service providers offering deep discounts on both to low-income families with school-age kids. Making up the different probably wouldn't cost anymore than developing a whole secondary logistical framework involving human labor and human…

The "choice" to go out and work because your job can't be done at home shouldn't carry with it unnecessary risk because society views you as expendable and public policy reflects that view, or because your employer isn't willing to take any measures to protect you, or because customers/clients/patients or other members of…

Perhaps you missed the OP's followup. It's the husband who's not willing to accept her as she is. She's fine with his eating what he wants, but he's not OK with her eating what she wants. He wants to eat what he eats.

The incidents I see on the local news since they installed security cams on all the buses typically don't look like they allow for that kind of time. E.g., someone boards and doesn't pay. As soon as the driver says something, the person takes out a weapon or just starts pummeling the driver. Then they generally depart…

Or maybe the Masked Singer could explain it ... to music.

The fat in peanut butter is very real. Edited to fix quote-nesting.

Thanks for explaining. I'm glad some place (Chicago?) has it figured out. The clear door protecting the driver seems like a good idea. Wish we had them here. I've seen some truly awful footage of drivers being attacked in recent years, now that there are security cams on the buses.

So it's like an airlock? The second, clear door prevents you from continuing to the seats, as well as prevents you from reaching the driver? I'm glad you live somewhere that everyone is generally compliant and that has designed its buses to deal with noncompliance. I know we've always had a small percentage of people who…

If it were me, I would make addressing the constipation my first priority. Chronic constipation for months (if I'm understanding the timeline) accompanied by full-body bloating doesn't sound like "nothing" to me. Have you checked back with your doctor? Does he understand how long this has been going on?

How does that work? Is the farebox attached to the outside of the bus? The places I've used buses, the fareboxes are inside the bus, next to the driver so s/he can see if you pay or not. And if you can't get on if you're not wearing a mask, does that mean that all the mask-wearers at a stop with one non-mask-wearer gets…