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They don't need to tax it, they need to transfer all subsidies over to fruit and vegetables. That will fix a whole lot of issues for a whole lot of people.

Like many processed foods, bread is full of bugs and bug excretions. It also makes me hungry after I eat it (must be all those yummy insect bits). I try to avoid or limit all foods that leave me feeling hungrier after I eat them. It ain't natural, I tell ya'll. Food is supposed to make you less hungry, not more hungry. Of…

The best diet is one that meets all your nutritional needs, fuels your workouts, gives you energy for the rest of the day on top of your workouts, sharpens your mind, puts you in a good mood, and leaves you feeling full and satisfied. It's up to you to try different foods in different combinations until you find what that…

Too many of my skinny, sedentary geek friends guzzled a pot of coffee every day for me to buy this. Not without a serious stack of peer reviewed studies, anyway. One of them was such a freak of nature he was all wiry muscle and shoveled in more junkfood than I did when we were dating.

What a wonderful thing for him to say! Me, I am sad I gained the weight. I regret it, but I know it's something I've had a tendency toward since childhood. I was a sugar junkie who would get into just about any form of it I could if the cabinets weren't straight up locked. So of course when I finally got to choose my own…

I just checked, and 2 cups of garbanzo beans are all my fiber needs for the day. Though I don't mind getting more and certainly did today.

For me I'm happiest on sunshine, exercise, fruits, vegetables. I often combine the exercise and sunshine by walking or running outside. That said, if life or the other humans are determined to stress me out, no amount of anything is going to help that much. I hate being stressed.

For me it's ridiculously hard. Not only does carrying less fat around all day mean I have a narrower range between maintenance and weight loss as well as less calories to maintain, I'm much hungrier and I find a much wider variety of foods highly palatable than I did before.

True, it wasn't. Although it was interesting. If it's the one I read when I googled the keywords, researchers took wild mice and raised them to the mousy equivalent of teenage years. Half were on sugar water as well as balanced food, the other half were fed cornstarch water and a balanced mouse diet. Then they turned both…

I would love to believe this, but there are pictures online of women at a medically determined unhealthily low body weight with loose skin. I remember a story awhile back in the Mirror (yeah that british rag) of a young woman who went from very overweight to anorexic after weight loss surgery. She was in danger of death…

Yup. Fruit leads to a prolonged, horrendous death full of foaming at the mouth, convulsions, and agonized regret. I'm just going to take these to the cashier now and buy them, then dispose of them in a safe, concrete-lined pit where they can't do any more damage. The perfectly safe, tasty cookies are on Aisle 3. :tongue:

Eat it at your own risk. Fruit is poisonous. Just google poisonous fruit, you'll get all kind of pictures that look exactly like those berries you should pass by in the store. The ones I'm standing over protectively, snarling. It's to keep anyone from getting sick, I tell ya! Stay away!

White sugar and high fructose corn syrup are good for you. Fruit sugar is bad for you. It's poison. Red means stop! Poison, I tell you! Stay out of my-the produce aisle. That stuff will kill you. Brought to you by someone who doesn't want competition. Fruit prices are high enough.

I just realized something. WTF is wrong with me? I can barely afford produce. Really 'barely' is synonymous with can't really but try anyway. If every one of you happily munching on cookies, cake, and bread with corn syrup hidden in it start switching to produce prices will get even higher and I'll be totally screwed.…

My point is we didn't used to be able to say that about tobacco, either. It took decades. Why not be on the safe side now? Especially someone like me, with diabetes running heavily on one side of my family and that diabetes is not linked to obesity. Many of my family who suffer from it aren't even overweight. Heh. I'm…

No it isn't a different issue. If you consume more of something than you should for your health and you know it, who cares if it's nicotine or sugar? Obviously there is a pull there that counteracts our ability to look after our health properly. And it's not about just any food. I don't know about anyone else on here, but…

Sure it will. But how many smokers do you know who just have one? Some of us have the same issue with sugary foods. I know I do. And I am one of the rare people who can take or leave cigarettes.

That's right. Like I said, growing evidence, but it's going to take time. Not enough yet, and of course big money is fighting to muddy the waters just as much as they can. But from everything I've read, it will eventually be accepted based on sufficient evidence, just like the cancer and tobacco link. And like human caused…

There is growing evidence that sugar increases diabetes in populations independent of calorie intake and other factors. But like tobacco it's going to be awhile before it's generally accepted. And the industry making so much of its money off white sugar and corn syrup will, like the tobacco industry, do its best to ensure…

I was craving last night. When I craved three months ago it was all about cookies ice cream and cake, maybe some chips for a salty side. Last night I was craving blueberries strawberries and bananas. The downside is I had enough money to go buy cookies ice cream or cake. I couldn't afford any fruit except the bananas.

Plantation Unsulphered Blackstrap Molasses: 1 tbsp = 42 calories %20 calcium %20 iron %17 potassium That is a heck of a lot of nutrition in 42 calories. I use it for baking, I eat it off the spoon, yes I have to be careful because I will crave it, but not as bad as I'd crave something like cookies or cake. I don't eat…

When this happens to me I go outside and casually stroll around in the nice free vitamin D sunshine. It's not really exercise but it's healthy and burns a few calories and it beats sitting in my chair 24/7.

I second the swimming. Also starting a new exercise programming or increasing the intensity of one will often cause several pounds of water weight gain, which your body uses to repair muscle. So just ignore the scale for a few weeks. Go by how you look and feel, photos, and measurements.

I eat real food. Heavy on fiber, light on additives and processing. It's far more expensive than either diet food or standard American diet food, but I feel a hell of a lot better on it.

I have to resurrect this because I belatedly realized I reached my goal of losing a newborn giraffe. Has anyone seen my giraffe? It's sort of wobbly and mostly fat.

I'm 5'3 and tiny boned. I think I'll go down to around 105 to get rid of my gut and then try my best to pack some muscle onto my old, wrinkled carcass.

Take a food scale and your favorite variety of junkfood and weigh out your daily calorie allotment. I doubt you'll want to give it a try once you see just how little food you get to eat. Unless your idea of junkfood is spinach!

At first it was anything that made me hungrier after eating it instead of less hungry. But that has started to include some highly nutritious foods instead of just bready and/or sweet foods. So now I'm saying no to anything with very little nutritional value (except tic-tacs, but those aren't for my benefit, they're for…

Glad I make my own. Nuts, salt, a little coconut oil, a decent blender. Of course I might be able to get salmonella from the nuts, I suppose. They're raw. I could toast them, though. Or I guess I'll have to sue myself if I get sick.

Web MD: http://www.webmd.com/diet/iron-rich-foods Iron in plant foods such as lentils, beans, and spinach is nonheme iron. This is the form of iron added to iron-enriched and iron-fortified foods. Our bodies are less efficient at absorbing nonheme iron, but most dietary iron is nonheme iron. Very good sources of nonheme…