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Thanks, Tony. Your professional opinion is in line with what I have been discovering from Internet searches and hints from the other responses. I guess that I was assuming the MFP target percentages were as important as the suggested levels for nutrients in daily diet. I take care to balance my diet using these, and was…

I couldn't find them on the website, either, Pam, but then I mostly use the iPhone app and only visit the site for forums like this one, so I'm not the best person to ask. Perhaps soeone else can help?

Thanks, Taem. As I live in Japan, and have done for well over half my life, I am well placed to research Japanese diet! Also my wife is Japanese (I've made my foods public and anything with a "Mika" brand is one of her creations). So we eat about half and half western and Japanese food. I hope that we are eating the BETTER…

Thanks, Pixiechick. My wife takes care of the quality of what we eat, and I hardly ever see white bread; tofu and nuts complement chicken and fish for protein with very little pork or beef. So I think she's doing a great job. And when I had my annual checkup earlier this year ALL of the parameters in my blood tests were in…

Wow, Song2sing, that's a very encouraging comment, thank you!

Thanks, Ladyhawk. I've found that there are considerable variations in the "standard" percentages. The current FDA-recommended daily intakes of fats, carbohydrates and proteins are expressed in grams (65, 50 and 300), and when you multiply these by typical figures for calories per gram (4 cal/gm for protein and carbs, 9…

Thanks for the two replies. If the standard values are recommended averages from decades ago I am not so worried about not meeting them. The hospital where I regularly get treatment offers free consultations for dietary advice. I'll ask for an appointment and get a professional opinion. This may take some time, but when I…

Cooling helps, but you can't count on it. If you just dribble the soy milk into the coffee it can be fairly hot. I only put soy milk in my coffee on doctor's orders but LUKEWARM soy coffee is definitely not my drink! Hope it works for you...

Well good for you! I've had a lot of good advice in replies here and will be following it. Good information too, in private mails (what to look for on labels, that kind of thing). I'm replacing Aunt Jemima pancake syrup with natural maple syrup in my food list, and that will cut down a lot of sugar and other unhealthy…

That could be the gest advice for me. I can't go about things half-heartedly, it's all or nothing for me. So when (for the very first time in my life at age 72) I started to count calories, swimming lengths, cycling minutes etc., etc., I was probably in danger of going overboard. But I don't understand how the sugar I get…

Thanks, I just shared that suggestion with my wife and we think it's probably the way to go.

Thanks, Peter. I'll do that as soon as I sign off this note. Perhaps you would then be so kind as to take a look? I must be missing something pretty obvious, but I'm new to all this calory counting, nutrient watching, and weight training, etc.

You too, huh? As I said to someone else, I'm borderline diabetic and have to be careful. I shudder to think how much I must have been eating while I was still eating chocolate, ice cream and the rest. But it's FRUSTRATING that I'm still over after having given up most of the obvious sources. I often consume DOUBLE the…

Well, I do eat fruit every day. My wife changes the fruit around--banana one day, orange the next, then apple, etc. Is there really more sugar in white bread than wheat bread? I didn't know that. It doesn't TASTE sweet... I'll tell her to look out for wheat pasta as we eat pasta several times a week. We don't often eat…

I'm not diabetic, though I got warned that I was borderline, and it's in the family, so I want to be careful. Looking at my diary I would have to say it's what comes through food processing. Half a cup of fruit juice and a teaspoonful of jam a day can't be the cause, surely!

Well, mvl1024, that's what's puzzling me. I've cut back to half a glass of fruit juice, and we buy brands that say "no added sugar." I'm not going to give up my daily fruit juice, though...

Oh, thanks! That's good news for my wife and I. We both love prunes and have found several different ways of preparing and eating them. I'll check the reported potassium levels, too. Of course if there are too many foods that leave out the potassium figure I could end up eating too much without realising it. (Wouldn't be…

Hmmm. I keep seeing these TV commercials for supplements that make we want to buy them but they aren't so much fun to eat as real food. <Big Grin>

Thanks! I didn't know that. Unfortunately I'm off milk and yoghurt on doctor's orders, so will have to look elsewhere.

Aha! I first noticed that the food database has some zeros when it shouldn't have when I was checking up on sugars. I'm usually over the top for those, but one day I was well below and wondered what I was doing right. When I checked through the foods I had entered, several of them had zero for sugar when they quite…

Thanks. I think I'll just go bananas, then! <grin>

Thank you Minirose2B. I've been eating a fair amount of several of those foods, so I will check whether the potassium levels have been recorded in the food database. It may be that I am getting the potassium but it isn't appearing in the totals because of inadequate labeling.

Thanks, MaidofAstolat, Hmmm. Soy creamer? Almond milk? Must keep an eye out for those. Haven't noticed them anywhere, but then I wasn't looking.

Thanks, Kendle. I also found that putting the soy milk in the cup first and slowly adding the coffee after letting it stand and cool for a while sometimes seemed to help avoid this curdling. I'll just keep trying. I do think sugar has something to do with it, though. At lunch time today I tried coffee without sugar (some…

I wouldn't mind trying goat's milk, as I quite like goat cheese, but it's almost impossible to get here in Japan in any form, whole or skimmed..

Aha! But can you really continue to claim you are Japanese? Some people seem to think that you have to REMAIN in Japan to claim that. I wouldn't know, but it's a fact when I go back to England people ask me where I am from. When I reply rather frostily "From England!" people who don't take the hint say "No, I mean before…

Yes, cycling up and down the Tamagawa is really great. Depending how I feel I can strike left, or right, and ring the changes before I go back, either coming back along the same bank or crossing over and coming back along the other. Then I get to choose which bridges I cross. (I soon get bored doing the same thing.) I only…

I tried drinking coffee without sugar and I found I'd rather give up coffee. But I have cut back on the sugar so that now I just put two mini-cubes of brown sugar (one gram each) in a mug of coffee. To answer your question, no, it never makes me feel odd. I love it! And rather than cow's these days I use soy milk. But…

Hi, abin: You wrote... >You can still calculate the calories you burnt by strength training under cardio. There is a column saying strength training (weight lifting, weight training). Just type in the number of minutes you did the exercise and it will show approx. calories you might have burnt. I'm not doing weight…

Well, she acted pretty scared at first, but it was her job to explain, so explain she did. I had to slow her down a few times. It's not the Japanese so much as my poor hearing. Oh, and all the new vocabulary too, of course. And I cracked a few jokes which lightened things up a bit... The atmosphere in the gym was FAR TOO…