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70% Cacao good enough
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133628.htm New research shows there might be health benefits to eating certain types of dark chocolate. Findings from two studies being presented today at the Experimental Biology 2018 annual meeting in San Diego show that consuming dark chocolate that has a high…
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Progress at understanding microbes potential influence on obesity
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180411131639.htm Date: April 11, 2018 Source: University of Chicago Medical Center Summary: A new study -- one of a few to concentrate on microbes in the upper gastrointestinal tract -- shows how the typical calorie-dense western diet can induce expansion of microbes that…
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Were you the flower girl in a wedding?
Well? I have 3 daughters. None of them ever were. That hurt.
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Tooth-mounted food logging. It's a thing.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180322103058.htm Date:March 22, 2018 Source:Tufts University Summary:Engineers have developed miniaturized sensors that, when mounted directly on a tooth and communicating wirelessly with a mobile device, can transmit information on glucose, salt and alcohol intake. Researchers…
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Just ate a whole square of chocolate
Ghirardelli, 86% cocoa, 60 calories. I don't see what the big deal of all the threads started by people who "ate a whole" + "chocolate" is.
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How to properly cut cheesecake
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20180119/fight-over-cheesecake-portion-leads-to-arrest
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WHEN YOU HIT A WEIGHT LOSS PLATEAU, NEW MEDICAL RESEARCH COULD HELP YOU BREAK THROUGH
http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/when-you-hit-a-weight-loss-plateau-new-medical-research-could-help-you-break-through/ Texas Standard is a product of several NPR affiliates in Texas. UTMB is a serious science center.
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Super busted by marketing pizzaz
Oh, the shame! Several weeks ago I noticed and bought a box of Ronzoni SuperGreens rotini. Yesterday I finally got a round tuit and researched the nutrition in that green pasta. According to the nutrition label, the SuperGreens Enriched pasta with Spinach, Zucchini, Broccoli, Parsley & Kale provides 0% of the daily RDA of…
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Hip Whisperer
I first heard about this in the newspaper to which I subscribe, so I didn't post a link to it because paywall. Then I saw some mfp regulars advising that one couldn't target fat loss. I'm just posting a link now. http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health/a9923800/john-benton-fitness-routine-models/
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Massive U.S & Canada vegetable recall Listeria, Use by October 11-20
http://www.chron.com/food/article/Safeway-Trader-Joes-vegetable-recall-fda-12297444.php?utm_campaign=moengage I never heard about this during the time frame of October 11 - 20. I knew nothing about it until getting to work this morning and seeing a notification from the Houston Chronicle.
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I actually thought I was making it up.
When I said "Myketopal this ain't". Then I checked to see if such a website does exist, and it does.
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IIFYM is OLD
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170921101751.htm Hadrosaur poop contains crustacean, a protein boost.
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Depression linked to inflamation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/08/depression-physical-illness-could-treated-anti-inflammatory/ I don't experience depression as many do. I deliberately eat, exercise, and supplement to suppress inflammation because of the link to inflammation and atherosclerosis. Now it appears that the medical community are…
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Bread love
How about it? I do love the bread I do include in my meals. The pizza crust is magnificent, the whole wheat bread is very tasty.
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What a ride it's been!
Here I am, sipping on a green smoothie, realizing that I have freaking done it! I'm in my maintenance range. This life isn't over and I don't go back to eating 6 big meals a day, but the 17+ years since I kissed my wife at midnight of New Year's Day Y2K and realized "I'm alive and my family has equipped me with the…
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Oats being cut
With what else does one cut oats rather than steel?
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Cold Shoulder vest for weight loss
Well, anyone? https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Shoulder-Unisex-CryoMAX-system/dp/B01AX7XHGS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=hs-blog-pcos-20&ie=UTF8&qid=1481568948&sr=8-1&keywords=B01AX7XHGS&linkCode=ll1&linkId=061642361d683f95e2898340e30db126 This is much along the lines of standing at my desk all day to burn an extra fraction of a calorie…
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Rowing machine butt hurt
I have a Lifestyler Cardiofit machine. The last time I used it, the motion of my butt sliding back and forth on the vinyl seat literally ripped a new hole for me. I don't want that to happen again. Have you any helpful ideas how I can use the machine for cardio exercise and prevent the traumatic injury?
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Supertracker, and the fallacy of believing everything you see online
I've put my numbers into the USDA's supertracker tool several times and each time I'm skeptical of the result. If I chose my leisure activity level as "Moderate", (more than once weekly of walking or gardening), it tells me that I can lose .5 lb per week by eating over 2100 calories daily. Further, it tells me that I can…
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People eating dog food.
It's long been a political joke in America, Now it's a marketing blunder in New Zealand. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11876840 I remember in childhood my brother sampled the dog food. He did not become a connoisseur of it.
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My body fat % is below 30, maybe
Because it's an impedance method of calculating. I've been checking my bf% and muscle % occasionally since January. As I've lost weight, the bf% went from as high as 41.4 in February to 27.8 when I checked it tonight. That's something I want to crow about, even though I expect someone to rain on my parade by explaining how…
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Science proves that Salt increases hunger
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170417182920.htm It's very interesting. It finally manages to explain a little more about how the body works.
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Calorie Control Council
This site, caloriecontrol.org , seems to be free of woo, full of sanity, good advice front-and-center, and just freaking useful. The amazing thing is it seems to be new as it doesn't pop up in a search on this site. I learned about it from a friend who called to tell me what it said his BMI was and what it said his healthy…
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Dietary Reference Intake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Reference_Intake It's fascinating, actually. Now if you could only find such a magnificent chart for women of your age, which would be quite different in some respects, especially iron. Part of the fascination is that I've been using mfp for over a year, consuming information from here…
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Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker reports on Fat and Sugar history and controversy
It's a very good read. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/is-fat-killing-you-or-is-sugar
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Externalize temptations to overcome them.
This suggestion develops a conversation I had with a friend. He lives alone and struggles with the temptations of cheap pizza and cheap wine. He's actually managed to stay sober for months at a time in recent years, which he is proud of. But, despite having gotten his weight down to a healthy BMI with exercise (from…
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I've reached the Healthy BMI
This morning I logged a rare 2.2 lb drop in weight and that put me into the Healthy BMI at 24.9. I began MFP on January 25, 2016 at 272.4, so this morning's weight also marked a loss of 98.8 lb total so far. My target goal is to be in the middle of this range, at about 160. I got new shirts yesterday in the smallest size I…
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Biome and Alzheimer’s disease
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep41802 Would any highly technical doctor or scientist take a shot at understanding this?