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I believe in unexplained allergic reactions....that isn't it. Let's say someone suffers from some sort of unexplained allergic reaction or symptom. They respond by looking around their environment when they have the reaction and they pick something they think might be the cause. They then notice that assumed environmental…
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so you eat a spoonful of fat and feel nauseous but if you put the spoonful of fat into your coffee you dont get nauseous. You are wonder if you still get the fat from drinking the coffee you put the fat into? Yeah you still get the fat. If you dont like having to do that I guess you could try eating spoonfulls of other…
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genetic engineering is a technology and a process not an ingredient. Should bread packaging list out the types of fertilizers used to grow crops that produced the grain that was used to bake the bread even if the bread did not contain the fertilizer? What use would that serve? Not all information is useful or relevant. If…
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I think that if there are far more children to adopt than families looking to adopt it is a stupid factor to consider. However if there are far more families looking to adopt than children available to adopt then I would think all considerations would be on the table. I mean if there was one child and hundreds of families…
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Well I'm not going to claim that your experience isn't your experience....just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me is all. There are certainly types of food that can cause gastrointestinal distress in some people but they are things like dairy where the quantities are fairly large...gram amounts at least. One thing…
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Sugar alcohols are typically heat stable and aspartame is not which is likely why sugar alcohols are used in candies. Not sure why sucralose isn't as its heat stable too. Or maybe it is I dont know.
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This is an insidious kind of woo....the kind that is technically true but yet totally useless. Sure...sugar "feeds" cancer cells...because it "feeds" all of your cells. It'd be like saying oxygen feeds cancer cells or that bleach kills cancer cells...also true, but I dont think holding your breath or drinking bleach is a…
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That is a good point about cancer hadn't thought of it like that. When the general public thinks disease they think of oil infectious disease, something with a specific cause...a moment of infection and the potential for treatment and cure or prevention through vaccination. There are many other forms of disease though…
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calorie balance is for weight loss, exercise is for fitness. If you want to lose weight and be in good shape while retaining your muscle then exercise is required....if you just want to lose weight it is not required.
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What can I say....in a snarky mood :-)
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Pffff....plenty of ways to consume 1000 calories in an hour, not sure what the big deal is. Pretty sure I've hit 1000 calories in an hour plenty of times.
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Crap I logged in on Chrome and lost all of my friends and my wife divorced me. Should have used Firefox.
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Honestly metric is s better system, you'll just have to adjust but you'll get used to it. This is coming from an American by the way. Nothing inherently different between calories or kilojoules...they are both just units of measure for energy....like kilograms vs pounds or feet versus meters. Oh and if you really want to…
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I don't necessarily doubt you had affects however I'll admit I am very skeptical when people just lump all artificial sweeteners together in one bucket as if they are all the same....they most definately are not. It would be very weird for any artificial sweetner to cause you symptoms given that the different artificial…
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I'm confusing you with someone else because I felt like you answered my post to someone else as if I was talking to you directly so it was a bit confusing...I assumed incorrectly that you were the person I had responded to. Apologies for the misunderstanding sounds like we don't have a disagreement.
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Most artificial sweetners are fully metabolized by your body. Things that are not metabolized are inert and will go right through you never actually entering your system. The only artificial sweetener I can think of that avoids metabolism is sucralose. Aspartame is fully metabolized.
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Since you are answering my post to KrazyKrissy like it is you I assume this is an alternate account for you. All molecules containing alcohol -OH groups end in -ol, that includes a ton of things not related to artificial sweeteners. Plus the most common artificial sweeeteners, aspartame and sucralose, do not end in -ol.…
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Even if our estimates of CI and CO are flawed...that doesn't mean that CICO itself is wrong. CICO is just thermodynamics....its true, as true as anything we know. What you are talking about is skepticism on how accurate our measurements of CI and CO are in terms of human food consumption and energy usage and how that…
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All artificial sweeteners? Just asking because the only thing that the artificial sweeteners currently on the market have in common is that they are sweet. Hard to picture the mechanism by which all of them would have the same effect despite their chemical disparity.
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Even if you were sedentary 1700 calories for someone who weighs 255 seems low. Did you set it to lose 2 pounds a week? If so that would mean it is estimating your TDEE as being 2700. Possible you just should dial down your loss rate if you did set it as high as 2lb/wk
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Just looking through my email here is the last time I got a request to review a manuscript submitted for publication in case anyone is curious as to what that looks like. Not particularly formal...kind of like a "hey guy, want to do some work for us?" Redacted most of it so it isn't showing anything potentially…
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Obsession with gluten, preservatives, GMOs, artificial sweeteners and vaccines is a symptom of a society where most legitimate health concerns that affect global health have been dealt with in that locality.
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As for genetic engineering I can see legitimate skepticism or concern with regards to regulation, patent law, control of food supplies and environmental effects. Unfortunately hard to even have that legitimate conversation when there is so much over the top and unfounded fear mongering and conspiracy theories a la…
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Science itself is predicated on the idea that human senses and intuitions are hopelessly biased and flawed and our best means of getting at truth is to conduct observational experiments designed to take the human element out of the equation as much as possible. Peer review itself is of course a human system by necessity…
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I think you are referring to ploidy not gene number. Lots of plants are polyploidy having high ploidy numbers naturally...and by lots I mean like half of all plants...its actually really common and definately not unique to wheat. Also there are diploid, tetraploid and sextaploid species of wheat but not sure there is a…
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I think I do get what you are saying I just don't think that studies not being reproducible is somehow just a current issue and not something that has always been true. I don't think that the peer review system is suddenly just now failing, it is just that people in the public thought it was better than it actually is and…
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I am a scientist and have been on both sides of peer review...both having my work reviewed for publication and reviewing others work for publication. It certainly is not a perfect system and there is certainly room for bias and laziness amongst reviewers and room for shoddy work to slip by. I think the public assumes peer…
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There is a kernal of truth to the milk thing. Milk producing mammals produce the enzyme lactase which is required to digest the milk sugar lactose. Lactase production is down regulated with weaning making adolescent mammals lactose intolerant. Humans are a rare exception to this as at some point during our evolution we…
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I always read with skepticism and err on the side of rejecting something that might be true rather than accept something that is false. Even if I think it likely is true I am reluctant to repeat it unless I look into it further to feel fully confident. There is actually very little in the general media I trust as being…
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Yeah I agree with you there, we are definitely putting the wants of the developing world before the needs of humanity as a whole...it is in our nature and is unlikely to change. Best we can do, practically, is siphon off some of the wealth generated for charity works or non-profit based therapeutical developments to help…
