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Vitamin B12 deficiency in women
I was recently told by someone that it is quite common for women to have vitaming B12 deficiency because we lose it through our menstrual blood. That does not sound right in any way, but I cannot find any information that cofirms or denies this. All searches on Google, Google Scholar and PubMed yield results as of how B12…
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Fasting till the 9th Hour?
I found this for of intermittent fasting here: http://www.allaboutfasting.com/intermittent-fasting.html I have tried to adopt it into my 5:2 days with mixed results. On some days I love it (particularly if I ate heavy the day before, it feels nice to wait until you eat. It also makes it much easier to stick to the 500…
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Small, yet immensely satisfying improvements?
So, I am two months in my weight loss journey already, but this really started some two-three weeks in. To give some background, I used to be a fairly athletic teenager without really knowing it – so I was used to things such a flat stomach and fairly muscular legs. Then I moved out for college, and that's where my…
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HBO Documentary - Weight of the Nation
Has anyone seen it? It is surprisingly good, in my opinion. Well, I haven' seen the third and fourth parts yet, but it's off to quite a good start. The first three parts are on youtube. Here is a small excerpt "a calorie is always a calorie": http://youtu.be/hLv0Vsegmoo?t=14m20s Warning: Second part contains graphic images…
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A silly question about bananas and oranges
When you have entries such as Oranges - Raw and Bananas - Raw. Are you supposed to weigh the fruits with and without the skin? I am asking on one hand, lately the skin seems to make up 1/3 of my fruit, and because the entries also have weirdly specific serving sizes such as "one cup, sections, without membrane". So that…
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Yoga and Flexibility
Hello! I see a lot of posts around here on lifting, running, and cardio, but was unable to find much advice on flexibility. So here is a bit of background information – I started yoga at the same time of my weight loss journey to improve some back pain, and ended up loving it for more philosophical reasons. Biggest issue…
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Difference in calorie absorption depending on type of food?
Hello, so this little thing popped up on my new feed today: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-most-food-labels-are-wrong-about-calories Since i know this forum loves to take these concepts and discuss them to death To clarify – 1) This is not about "disproving" CICO or showing how it doesn't work. If…
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Ideas with potatoes...
I got a bag of 4kg of potatoes at a discount price, and they are starting to grow sprouts and I still have half the bag left. I love potatoes, but I find myself at loss with what to do with them other than a salad or using them as a side-dish. So I am in desperate need for recipes that have potatoes as a main dish. :smile:…
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lost 2.2 kg since her last weigh-in! Gingerbreadcandy's lost 0.2 kg so far.
Hello hello! I started using Fitnesspal a while back, but then fell off the wagon due to stuff happening in life. I could not get myself to counting calories again, until I got my wisdom tooth pulled last week, following which I started logging calories again just to check how much energy I was getting with a liquid-only…
