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Diabetes / Insulin sensitivity
This seems to be a topic worth discussing. What things truly do impact diabetes and insulin sensitivity? What is the relative impact of various factors: does activity, diet, sheer weight, or adiposity have the greatest impact? I'll start out by throwing out that I see a lot of advice out there that advises weight as most…
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Can I lose weight even if X?
You can lose weight on a med you can lose weight stuck in bed you can lose weight if you calorie count you can lose weight even if you without (though your body counts them regardless you see no single calorie comes for free!) You can lose weight with excerise you can not lose weight only in those thighs losing weight from…
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Better with beard or no
Just looking for opinions on which looks better. Beard: Goatee and 'stache: Just goatee: Or naked face:
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THE REVERSE DIET DEBATE: Eric Helms + Menno Henselmans vs. Layne Norton + Peter Fitschen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrul81qco8
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Free instructions for World's most POWERFUL CLEANSE
Hi. Everyone, I've learned of the most powerful cleanse possible. It is so potent that precise use is necessary not just for effectiveness, but also for your own safety. I'm willing to share this cleanse's ingredients, but I can't in good conscience do so to anyone that isn't capable of working with it. Therefore, anyone…
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Looking for addiction success stories
I was wondering if anyone would share their success stories at losing weight viewing themselves as addicted to food, particularly viewing themselves as addicted to certain foods. I'd particularly like picture successes.
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Sugar and carb addiction addiction
On carbohydrate addiction addiction MFP tends to get a sugar / carbohydrate addiction thread about once a day. As such, I thought it would be helpful to have something explaining the neurobiology of what happens in classically addictive substances like cocaine, and why similar chemistry in food consumption might sound like…
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Arguing Semantics - sugar addiction
To begin with, I'm a bit dismayed that several of the people who have dismissed sugar addiction arguments as semantics are people who have knowledge or links to psychology. If you think semantics is unimportant and reason to dismiss something, I feel you're frankly doing a real poor job understanding psychology as one of…
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How to handle new MFPers
So the point has been brought up that people come in to MFP looking to share the new diet "knoweledge" they've learned from a documentary or book, or blog, and that it really helped them, but... long term MFPers realize the recommendation doesn't agree with their knowledge, scientific consensus, or the dictates of the…
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Good Food, Bad Food, I'm the guy with the vectors
The problem with saying food is good or bad is that beyond the psychological connotations it puts on food (that I find just aren't helpful in having a healthy relationship, YMMV), is that it views the complex world of nutrition and homeostasis as an oversimplified scalar. What is a scalar? In physics class you probably…
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I am rude to woo labels
I'm trying to make some seitan with a more complete amino acid profile, so I'm taking Bob's Soy Protein with its proud gluten free label, and mixing it with pure gluten. And yes, I'm aware of legitimate reasons to avoid gluten like celiac disease, but I'm also aware of why the label is more common now.
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Will clean eating improve your health?
Actually, there's a very real chance it can make your health worse: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/why-clean-eating-is-worse-than-just-a-silly-fad/ While it often starts with a good sentiment - the desire to improve one's health - clean eating diets and gurus are filled with unsound, and sometimes even unsafe advice on…
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Snickers are the healthiest thing I eat
And I say that regularly eating 5 servings of vegetables a day. That's because when I'm eating them, it usually means I did or will do a decent amount of cardio or NEAT, and no I don't do it as a reward for those things. See, I say healthy for food always requires context. Anyone else have an interesting "healthy" food?
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Medieval Times Diet
Has anyone tried this? See back in the medieval times, everyone was always healthy so long as they didn't get a disease like plague, and since we now have vaccines for that, clearly we'll all live incredibly long and healthy lives just eating like they did back then. So basically you can eat anything that you could at…
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Welcome
I'll post something formal here eventual. Really! Maybe argue what should go here to do my job for me!
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Is meme addiction real
Can I be addicted to memes?
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Who here counts calories
Do you count calories? How thoroughly? Does it seem to correlate well with weight loss / gain? I've heard from one or two people that this might actually be how to lose weight.
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MFP Blog: Calorie Not a Calorie
https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/4-simple-reasons-why-all-calories-are-not-created-equal/
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Everyone is right, everyone is wrong
So, having looked through an old thread or two recently linked, I had a bit of an epiphany. I think some disagreements that happen have to do with looking at things at fundamentally different levels of analysis. For example Person A: Advertising is causing the obesity epidemic. Here, I even have solid research that the…
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Why weight loss isn't always constant
Spend long enough on MFP, and you'll hear people repeat the mantra: "weight loss isn't linear". It is very true, and often a form of frustration. So what is going on when you're doing everything right (you weight everything! No cups, actual weights! Etc!)? I've found this diagram in the free online book The Hacker's Diet…
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Food / Nutriton / Diet documentaries, less than worthless?
I've come to the conclusion that as much as I've liked documentary films, I think any that is likely to become popular is worthless as an educational tool. I've seen people here mention ones like Fed Up, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, Super Size Me, Food Inc. All of them have glaring falsehoods in them. All of them…
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Summer Ice Cream Replacement Tips
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Article - Bad Fitness / Gym Sayings
ca.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding/stupid-gym-sayings.html 50% of what needs to be pointed out here regularly on MFP.
