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No ones body can process sucralose...that is kind of the point of sucralose.

This is a sentiment I hear a lot but honestly I think its a bit silly. Of course it is a useful skill to be able to pre-judge something with limited information in order to not waste time looking into it further. Are we honestly expected to look in depth into absolutely everything we see? Of course not...so yes of course…

Full disclosure I haven't read the article or the study. That said going to an anthropologist for "scientific research on metabolism" is like going to your dentist if you break your leg. Sure...dentistry is a legitimate field full of intelligent dedicated people...but why are you there with a broken leg?

I think the issue here in terms of people seeing eye to eye is that "healthy" is subjective, it isn't some objectively defined thing. Depends what you mean by "healthy". If by "healthy" you mean only doing things that are conducive to optimal health then I suppose you are correct in what you say, but then again if your…

I'd rank them above internet forums.

Yes....your Doctor.

40 here, I'd say I don't really start to think "getting old" until I hear 70. Seems to me like people into their late 60s seem to function perfectly fine without outward signs of age these days. It wasn't that long ago that 65 as retirement made a lot of sense because people died around 68 or so and were starting to get…

sodium can only be taken as a salt. you can't injest pure sodium. I mean...you could, but it would be the last thing you did. So if there is a "sodium tablet" then all it is is a tablet with salt in it.

I really would advise that you not overthink the sodium thing, there is a lot more important things to put your effort towards. There also isnt so much a one-size-fits-all amount to tell you. The amount of sodium you should take in is directly related to how much water you take in and how much you are sweating. If you…

sodium chloride isnt mostly chloride...it is a 1 to 1 ratio. Although the poster you were responding to was being rude they happen to be right. If somehow you are actually low on sodium then sprinkle some salt on your food.

Your food is spoiling in 1-2 days? Do you avoid salt?

It is hard to become morbidly obese and have health complications as a result from eating steamed ears of corn. It is, however, considerably easier if you mechanically grind up the corn and then boil and through chemistry extract and purify the sugar to turn into a syrup then mix that syrup with water and drink that in…

We didn't specify the illness. Yes...if you have an illness that kills people you should probably be in a hospital not at work. Dont gonto work with the flu yeah I agree...but there is a pretty clear difference in severity between a cold and the flu. I was picturing the scenario where you have a cold...runny nose,…

Okay so just to sum up here...you know faculty members taking multiple weeks off of work because of "stress" having other less experienced people take on their job (presumably then doing less of their own job) and that sounds good to you but if a person dares show up to work despite having a cold then that person is worthy…

Honestly there are professions where it isnt feasible for an employee to have a backup. Someone gave an example of a college professor who if they dont show up something like 200 people dont get the class they essentially paid $300 each for. They can't just replace them that day and that doesn't represent a "failure of…

Honestly I dont think Myfitnesspal is actually the cause of the problems you describe and putting all the blame on it then discarding it like some sort of voodoo doll to exorcise your problems isnt actually going to do anything. Sounds like your issues are deeper than that and you might benefit from some counseling. I hope…

That is great if you happen to have a job where no one else actually depends on your work. If you do then it's not that simple.

Not sure what sort of response you are expecting here...are you expecting strangers on the internet to be able to accurately diagnose your medical condition on the basis of one sentence? If you are experiencing a medical difficulty then go seek medical help....not the opinions of strangers on the internet who would have…

You also seem to be assuming that high metabolism is "good" while low metabolism is "bad". If they existed and had a huge effect all low metabolism would mean would be that you needed less food so your food bills should be lower. Why is that a bad thing? Even in this scenario you could have high metabolism people who eat…

Equal is just a brand name for aspartame.

I think most of the public thinks pesticides aren't even used in organic farming let alone consider this level of detail.

Yup...its about the same calorically as protein because it is basically just a methylated dipeptide. Its about 4 cal per gram but the amount necessary to sweeten things is typically measured in miligrams...so like you said its pretty negligible.

Sorry to be "that guy" and nitpick but given how much miscommunication and misunderstanding is out there on this topic I thought it worth pointing out that xylitol is not "artificial" at least in the way that "artificial" is typically used in the public to mean not derived from a natural product. Xylitol is produced by…

No...I dont.

No I am not saying that...not sure where you got that from. You seem to just not understand what I am saying either willfully or for whatever other reason and I'm not sure how else to say it. If you spend 1 billion dollars on R and D to develop a drug and then spend more on production costs and the end result is a pill…

gluten is only "problematic" for people with celiac disease. Same as lactose is only "problematic" for those who are lactose intolerant and peanut oil is only "problematic" for those with peanut allergies. The rest of your post is just confusing so no comment there. To me it sounds like you probably just have a salicylate…

Delayed choice quantum experiments do not indicate that reality morphs to your wishes. No physicist would claim that. Placebo effects are most likely just due to the fact that stress can be debilitating or aggravate certain conditions and worrying that you have no way of treating the condition is stressful...giving someone…

I can only assume you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I'm not claiming that people's belief makes things happen to them. I'm simply saying that people believe things that aren't true...no need to invoke any metaphysics for that one.

Sure I accept that a persons belief has meaning for that person...as I said I am not questioning that persons belief, I am questioning that method as an means of establishing actual causality. If a person finds that whenever they are near clothes that have been treated by a fabric softner that they get a rash on their skin…

n=1 refers to one person, not the number of times they experience symptoms. This sort of thing is why we have blinded scientific studies. Individuals will pattern-seek and find something....doesn't mean what they found is the cause. When I say individuals I am referring to all people incluiding myself, no one individual is…