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Correct me if I'm wrong but you're weighing 50 grams of dry pasta+snack pot. That calories on the back are most probably for cooked pasta as it's too low for any dry pasta I can think of. 100g of cooked is around how much you get when you cook your snack pasta (it' probably around 30 grams of dry pasta) so you can take it…

Unless you mean palm kernel oil, palm oil is very high in palmitic acid content. Palmitic acid is a type of saturated fatty acid chain mostly related to increasing LDL. I'm afraid I didn't any studies that favor palmitic acid yet. Actually, it's one of the culprits of bad saturated fat image. Whereas I definitely don't…

You're thinking of human body as a pipe, it can never be 64 oz in 64oz out from kidneys. You lose a great amount through respiration and sweating. It's not easy to give an average on that as it depends on the activity level of person, climate, body mass, age etc but the total minimum can be estimated at about 28-30oz. So…

It can retain an excess of 6-8lbs of water over a time period of a week or more. Usually muscles adapt to new exercise habits in starters far slowly than athletes and it can take as long as a month. For women, during menstrual cycle, hormonal changes affect water retention. As long as it doesn't turn into edema which hints…

In intracellular and extracellular fluid. 57-60% of an adult body is composed of water. That's 90lbs of water for a 150lbs person. The high intake of minerals such as sodium, blood plasma concentration affect the retaining of water. It's all about homeostasis and osmotic balance. Your body wants to balance any extra intake…

They do, it's just too low compared to the daily value of FDA, 4 oz. about 4% so it's not a concern on label.

Don't use readily listed "cooked, roasted, baked" items. You don't know how people cooked them, how much oil they used, at what temperature the food was good hence how much water weight was lost. Make your own recipe with your own ingredient list and choose your own serving side. One person may slice a cake in 12 whereas…

As I said, the studies aren't about "regular in terms of common sense" dosages but they're about high fructose intake or HFCS in this case. It's about the fact that the average young adult out there in the US (and probably in most countries around the world based on acquaintances) are getting 18% (Estimated, I've seen…

Do not take potassium supplements without checking it with your physician. As a healthy person can get enough potassium through diet. I'm not sure about US market and FDA but under normal circumstances. 80-100mg of potassium per tablet ( a banana has what, 500mg? Supplements are pointless) is the norm for potassium…

It's a report, you can check 76 references it has. That quote is readily correct about fructose metabolism understood so far.

Say no and don't look back. I've visited my grandpa (and he means the worlds to me) last week and he had bought a great pastry along with ice cream which I had to say no. He was heartbroken and I had to explain him that I ate too much sugar recently (well... it's not lying...) so I could never eat that or else I'd have…

Hmm... Try to add more calorie dense food like nuts or peanut/almond butter. Even one tablespoon of PB or a handful of nuts will help you. On a piece of bread or maybe with a banana. One or two snacks like this will solve the problem.

Are you getting your exercise calorie info from MFP estimations or heart rate monitor?

Two would be my two to criticize. I think your yogurt choice have added sugars. It's coming up with a too high carb content compared to regular plain yogurt. And if you like walnuts, spare the cash for some of the almonds and go for walnuts. Whereas almonds are good, no nuts beat walnuts on omega 3 front.

Not eating enough will make you feel sluggish and eventually you'll be hungry and end up craving for more. You need adjust your diet as well. Under My Home > Goals > Change Goals > Custom, lower your carbs as MFP sets them pretty high compared to proteins and fats. You can go with %40 carbs, %30 protein, %30 fats or…

2lbs loss a week is pretty high for you as you don't have much to lose, set your goal to 1lb per week ;) or 0.5 lb even better.

What's your height and weight?

I was eating 250g+ sugar a day so I think I qualify for this Sweet Teeth Anonymous meeting. It's been about three months now that I decided to eat less sugars. First step is to get rid of the junk in your house and don't buy any. Because for most people, there is no "I'll take a piece of this chocolate and eat it in small…

Have you talked to him about his manners? I usually don't mind bootcamp *kitten* kicking but if you're annoyed, you definitely should talk to him and tell him that you don't appreciate that kind of treatment. Or if you decide to find another trainer, at least settle those terms before starting on your training.

Of course it's no good for me when you don't share :p

So much endive hate here.

To me it also seems like a good no bake cookie dough :love:

There are also studies that suggest a defect in insulin secretion mostly starting at impaired glucose tolerance stage and progressively increasing to diabetes. I'm afraid that's not the case.…

The only metabolic difference between HFCS and sucrose (except for the different glucose/fructose ratio of course) that I'm aware of is that glucose and fructose in HFCS is free compared to the bonded form in sucrose, hence you don't need sucrase. I'm a bit lost here. Are you suggesting that beta cells still produce enough…

Well... If someone's paying for those studies, then we all know that artificial sweeteners is a big market so how can you positively say that the anti-aspartame studies aren't funded by other manufacturers like Splenda vs Nutrasweet? Because you know, people won't stop using artificial sweeteners when aspartame is evil,…

You said this: Acg posted graphs showing identical insulin responses for HFCS and sucrose. If you're familiar with graphs, you can see that it's not about 24 hour window. Further study on non-obese women showing no difference in their free glucose, insulin, ghrelin and leptin levels between HFCS and sucrose:…

I guess we can say that :laugh: On the topic, how do you think you'd fare if you were taking more carbs and less protein/fat? As for me, under a decent protein intake, I find myself craving for more simple carbs (sweet teeth anonymous :grumble:).

This is why studying with human subjects suck. They're never isolated enough to give objective results. The higher the number of participants gets, the more expensive it gets of course. That's why an independent study is almost impossible. In most of the studies you can't monitor your subjects except for weekly tests, in…

It's not unethical to tell people not to exercise. Ethics only draws the line when something endangers the life of a human with or without their consent (with consent part is not about ethics to be honest but about laws). It's only less convenient because you'll find less study subjects, like you said how you'd quit.

Because if you are high in sugar you can't be low in carb by definition. A high carb diet is rarely practiced as a diet with high complex carbs. Your diet is at around 25-30% carbs, correct me if I'm wrong. We're talking about 65%.