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Please flag the spam !
The new forums have features to limit spam, like rate of posting restrictions. However to keep the boards easy to access there are no restrictions on signing up and posting, so we still get spam here. We can now flag the posts and have them disappear if 5 people mark them as spam, so as well as shouting at the screen when…
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Sugar FAQ
Firstly, if you don't want to track sugar daily you can turn it off in the settings of your food diary at MyFitnessPal Food and Exercise Diary Settings (top left) Secondly, if you want to use a higher target than MFP's standard you can change that in Custom Goals at MyFitnessPal Fitness Goals (lower left) 1. Will eating…
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EU guideline for VLCDs revised
Europe's food safety organisation EFSA have pronounced on the issue of Very Low Calorie Diets and come up with a science-based minimum spec, described here with science available to download here and no doubt on the EU web sites. TL;DR - 600 kcal/day with minimum 75g protein, 30g carbohydrate, 11g linoleic acid, 1.4g…
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How significant are hormones in appetite control
Recent study from Denmark ( abstract here ) found that it took ~40 weeks for hunger regulating hormone Ghrelin to get back towards its pre-weight loss value having used a VLCD to achieve 13% weight loss in 8 weeks and then support and tracking to maintain the weight loss for a year. Further info at…
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Low carb and vegetables
A follow on from psulemon's Calorie thread. There are some people following a low carb diet / lifestyle who eat few or no vegetables, like Tommy in Sweden who often eats one large meat based meal a day with butter and posts them on his blog. A less extreme Swede is Dr Andreas Eenfeldt who says to eat all the vegetables you…
