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The Bumble filter date is not saying what the person says. Advanced filters are a paid for feature, and even of women paying for it, this is only showing women who have set a preference. Nor does the filter work the way it's being implied. The 90% there represents that number is considered acceptable by those that have it.…

I don't think there are studies showing insulin is a major factor in obesity and diet failures. At most, raised insulin is common in obesity, but you seem to be implying a cause and effect with insulin being causative. It is much more an effect. Low carb isn't really that recommended though. Usually the recommendations for…

The point is a bit more subtle than that. It's pretty easy to agree tobacco use is just a linear scale, using less is better. The general perception is, there is never a case that taking a smoke is going to benefit someone. We also have second hand smoke effects. Overall, we're never going to feel bad about the concept of…

I have my own pet hypothesis that it is hard to have a detachment because food is viewed as a moral issue on some level. Much of our moral disgust seems to be much the same pathways used for gustatory disgust, just rewired under evolution to handle social dilemmas. I think this makes disagreements around food, even the…

I wouldn't say it is so definitive. Last I saw, there are no studies that elicit food addiction for ad libitum eating, only for time restricted windows. So while there are studies that show lab rats will go wild for cheesecake when it isn't always available, there's none that shows this problem if cheesecake is always…

Well, that's consistent with Elon not founding Paypal nor Tesla, but still acting like he did it. To the extent the adage is any kind of truth, it generally isn't applicable to something like sustained weight loss.

The "function" is more literal than you probably think. I'm pretty sure all it does is take your total deficit for the day, multiple it by 35 days, and divide by 3500 calories => TD*35/3500, and then subtracts it from your current weight to get what you could weigh in 5 weeks. If you want to actually capture something…

First, I don't know about getting an actual dietitian to respond. I would imagine like many other medical related issues, it would be inappropriate for one to give you a professional analysis over the internet. What was MFP telling you that you'd lose per week if you ate 2700? The max setting it allows is 2 / week, and if…

I wonder by what metrics to people that view it as addictive measure it, and what would falsify the belief there's an addiction? I recently saw that for years, there's actually been decent evidence that porn addiction doesn't really exist, yet people still believe in that. The evidence is that there isn't a correlation…

My family took care of the developmentally disabled, including at times people with Prader-Willi. I think every Prader-Willi person in independent living had to have their refrigerator and pantries locked against use, and their food portioned for them by staff. Seems like there would be no point to it if the people could…

Decreased steps is one of the components of adaptive thermogenesis that leads people to not lose or lose less than expected. A tracker can give someone insight to when that is happening to take deliberate steps (pardon the double entendre) to fix that. My recollection is that when I first started using a tracker, I spotted…

It is possible the point of it was that while intake of sugar is nonessential, from a biochemistry standpoint, sugar is essential to human life. That's fair for defending sugar of all kinds. I do think there are people that think sugar is indefensible and hold rather stringent clean eating views that don't really…

I've had related thoughts about the fact that some of the better evidence based nutrition guidelines are said to be impossible to meet for the world because there aren't enough fish for the fish recommendations for the benefits of omega 3 fats in fish. Yet oddly because of the way the industries are run, fish oil pills…

Yes. While there is every possibility there is a miscommunication between you and them, if you are accurately reporting their analysis, then yes, the people do know at least one thing your advisers don't. Like if you purported your medical researchers said "the earth is flat", they'd be just as wrong about that despite…

Ultimately, the answer is epistemology. I find most people aren't terribly concerned with knowing things in a way that moves them towards eliminating false beliefs and adopting true beliefs, asking what tests those beliefs, doing what is rational. Rather they are concerned with rationalizing, looking for things that…

As other said, consider professional help. You seem like you have a few issues that might benefit from it: possible binge eating, possible undereating to an underweight body, and possible self image issues about your size and appearance. Logging can accomplish a number of things. Done properly, it is an objective measure…

Can you walk me through how that works? Is COVID19 guaranteed to always transmit to anyone within 6 feet of an unmasked, infected person, to anyone nearby, as in does your perfect mask necessity scenario assume a perfect virus? Given the virus doesn't always and instantly transmit, I think there's a tendency as one goes…

Well, yes, but actually no? There is such a thing as intersubjectivity, where some phenomena may be subjective but still agreeably true across all individuals. Ultimately a person's particular satiety is individualistic. There's overall tendencies of foods towards satiety that probably have something to do with how various…

It sounds like some people might have their numbers off because carbs have a variable number of calories. The USA standard is the sugar and complex digestible carbs are 4 calories a gram, soluble fiber is 2 calories per gram, and insoluble fiber is 0 calories a gram. So if MFP ups your calorie goal and carb goal, but not…

Are people actually commonly saying doctors don't know more about nutrition than the average member of the population at large? I think you're disagreeing with an argument no one is making because it is trivial. The real problem is how much doctors are willing to believe their own authority and discernment versus the…

You don't need another thread because the knowledge doesn't imply the discussion you think it does. If COVID-19 could come out of ear canals in a wide dispersal pattern, it might be relevant. The reason for wearing masks is primarily to stop transmission by the person wearing the mask.

It isn't a false claim, just one unsupported by a mere anecdote. For all the massive amounts of schooling doctors have, nutrition is a very small part. I don't know British standards, but in the US, a typical doctor or surgeon not specializing in a related area will get 2 weeks of nutrition training. Those 2 weeks are…

I had my GP give me a liver test (ALT and AST) without even mentioning he was putting it in the blood work - even though he wouldn't do a lipid panel because I've had one within 5 years and it was fine. He asked if I had a drinking problem, and started having concerns about my liver. I sent him links to clinical studies on…

Sugar doesn't even cause weight gain. If you give people a sugar pill and a control group a placebo, there won't be any difference between groups in weight change. :D

Why? Masks are hardly the equivalent of living in sterilized bubble. I've yet to see any evidence cultures that already have a practice of wearing masks have an issue. Do you think covering up coughs and sneeze have had an impact on people's immunity?

https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Brain-Outsmarting-Instincts-Overeat/dp/125008119X https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Michael-Moss-audiobook/dp/B00B4G0MMK Those two are pretty good about it.

1. I fail to ever see the point of calling something virtue signalling. Thinking virtue signalling is an argument itself is also virtue signalling. It is its own little shibboleth amongst people of a certain persuasion who have the inability to actually argue on facts. 2. One can be concerned with other people's health in…

I guess in the absence of an ability to follow actual scientific literature and understand the issues in any given study, what is left is looking at given rationals for something and what accounts for those opposed to it, and determine what seems most consistent. For wearing masks, while the initial messages were muddled,…

Kind of. If one has a condition that makes wearing a mask difficult, the store should provide reasonable accommodations to allow purchase with the person not having to enter the store, such as curbside pick up or delivery. Things like the ADA require reasonable accommodations, but putting other people at risk of pandemic…

Interesting take on the state of the literature for LDL, particularly given how statins still remain common treatment to reduce cholesterol as a preventative. I think if one wants to get into a nuanced discussion of the current pathology, I believe for atherosclerosis, LDL or perhaps VLDL is necessary but not purely…