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In DietLand it means you can state it and instantly feel morally superior, thinner, leaner, healthier and far, far more important than the poor sad sack you are responding to! Eat Clean - You're Worth It :)

Yes, but how often do you hear them admit it :) It was some of the details I liked, like the cholesterol questions. That and the wider airing of the common sense science of Prof Jebb. I have a bugbear about the persistent flogging of cleverness where simplicity and common sense should prevail. Nowhere more so than the diet…

I said which bits! The part where 2 GPs actually realise that what they 'know' may not be so. Did you watch it?

Loving the physiology argument :) Did either of you two watch the doc and hear what surprises the twin GPs experienced? That part of the programme was very illuminating, it threw over some of the 'things we know' and turned them into 'things we assumed'. That and the Susan Jebb stuff should be essential watching for anyone…

Isn't it though. Darned Sugar Monster!! OP... You might have to start another, let us know, I'd like to continue with the question you DID ask. I think the fact that you think about having and meeting macro goals may have been a point for her. As in do it the easy way, by eye, without having to fuss. Use the food pyramid…

Whereas I have taken the slow route... and have no saggy skin problems and have felt remarkably little pain in changing my whole relationship with food. When I have done I should have lost close to 60lbs in about 21/2 - 3 years. Maybe a little bit too relaxed at times :) It would depend on whether you can look far enough…

I'd say she has a point! Especially that bit about lifestyle versus diet. If you measure everything forever you do become obsessed. She was suggesting you tried a more holistic approach - look at the whole range of food you eat rather than focussing on the micronutrients and kcals. But if you have cholesterol and…

Feet apart - but I appreciate that many experts say differently. But it depends upon you and your own muscle balance (or lack of). Try a slow push up with your feet firmly together, concentrate on how the back of your thighs and lower back feel. Recover and then do it again, this time with your feet hip width apart,…

Just taking points as I remember them.... hairless rat isn't really a species, it is a breed of rat. It is man made, bred from defective rats, just like the dumbo eared rats were. The point of taking just fat or sugar based restrictions was to show what that one single faddish point would lead to. I think they showed the…

I use the NHS one too. Or rather, I will once the route I use is no longer under a couple of feet of water. The continued flooding is starting to irritate me now. And it is raining heavily again!

Erm...... that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

All of which is how all foods are analysed. The list of nons for those bars is interesting, at least 2 of which are impossible to guarantee. The certificate is a sweet idea, it may even persuade some to purchase. But STILL they will have to use the 20% variability. Why? Because the bars will contain a mixture of foodstuffs…

:) Really should have read morbidity or, as in the piece itself, mortality outcomes.

The ketogenic diet has proper, general scientific support only in children. Studies in adult refractory epilepsy have also shown quite a high positive effect but there have not been the same number or size of studies done in adults - those that have been done have not been conclusive. So it might be worth trying but......…

Sorry DrSy - too obvious. You didn't even try to match you blatant sales pitch to the post you slung it onto. And the word forum in the link is a total red herring too.... sales pitch loud and clear. Bad form, not allowed and reported!

I think the point was made early on that the thing that is unacceptable here is that a teacher deems it OK to take photographs of the lunch/snacks of her charges and to post them on a public forum and to ridicule the parents. When you get past that wholly unprofessional attitude you start on the other questions: why is…

Both.... is the current thinking. We can be genetically predisposed to gain weight if we are exposed to what is labelled an 'obesogenic environment' (I do love a long word :) ) That sort of explains why whole families tend towards similar body shapes/weights. So squillions of people can be genetically predisposed but never…

Erm... if you don't tear your muscles when working out you won't get any benefit. As others have said, it is the micro tears that result from overloading muscle fibres that cause adaptation to the exercise done... no tears, no progress!

How many days? http://www.xmasclock.com/ 66 days and I have, erm, 14lbs to go. 66 days = 9ish weeks. OK... might be doable still! 1.5lbs per week is a lot more than I have been losing, more than my target weekly loss. But I have been lazy about it recently. Maybe I should use this as a bit of a kick up the backside. A…

Like lots of other perfectly good, early physiological/health studies, the water study the 8 glasses a day is based on was bastardised very quickly. If you like drinking lots of water then do. If, like me, you like tea, coffee, beer, wine, soup, etc then do that instead. And no, it isn't dehydrating, that's another myth!…

Thanks for explaining, QuietBloom. The key term there is ALL THE FAT. Protein is always the fuel of last resort, but the last resort comes way before the last of the triglycerides have been used. Muscle is only ever utilised once all other available triglycerides have been depleted, as opposed to all stored fats, if that…

Ah! I only just got to be a card carrying bro and I ruined it already :-) Muscle sparing is a medical term that refers to any invasive procedure that actively tries to reduce the amount of separation of muscle fibres. But I have read it a lot here and so suspect it has been used as you describe it, most likely on lifting…

Accused of bro science - I shall giggle for hours.

I'm the same height as you and am currently saddened beyond all reason..... my lovely shoes no longer fit MY FEET HAVE LOST WEIGHT! At my highest I would wear a 2inch heel and feel it at the end of the day. Now I wear them for longer and don't feel a thing. I was going to start wearing my more adventurous heels but, as I…

Alternatively the goal of exercise is for general health. In which case cardio is essential - it uses muscle too, so that's a win win, isn't it? Muscle sparing? I am not sure what that means, in context. I know what it means in terms of elite athletes but am not sure what the professed point of it is an exercise arena...…

Too much depends on the individual but an obese individual would need to be using fat as a fuel store, so longer duration (that is more than a couple of minutes, in energy system terms), medium intensity exercise of any sort will do it. You want to be into the Krebs cycle as it used tryglycerides as a fuel source and…

I think I wanted to lose 19lbs in the then 19 weeks.... I have no idea. But elsewhere I have set myself 50lbs loss by then, I have now lost 36.5lbs, so I am about on track.... 13.5 to go!

Not read it but would love to hear what you think are the weird bits. Maybe I could help unwind the mystery - or agree with you and laugh like a drain :)

Ach! It was actuarial tut to start with and now some damned mathematician has made it worse! No points for guessing I am short! Found a piccy of him in a group - he is of average height - no BMI change at all for him, perhaps!

Joshdan, we aren't disagreeing, I think. Just focussing on different areas of the whole weight loss science arena. As I said, my husband is an engineer and posting with you is like talking to him. I am aware that we seem to be disagreeing, yet I don't disagree with what you post - until, like him, you separate the thing…