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Pollan Cooks!
Michael Pollan's latest book was released today. Here is what some have to say. Feel free to add. New York Times Pollan Cooks! http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/pollan-cooks/ New York Times Finally, Maybe, We Are What We Cook…
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Calories and weight
3500 calories equate to a pound. Two cups of water weigh a pound. I'm having a difficult time wrapping my mind around the energy concept of how the two connect. If you lose a pound from mowing your lawn, how much is transpiration and respiration and where does losing some calories fit in? Maybe you could tell me what is…
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Friday on the couch
So let's say that throughout a day you drink four cups of water and that you get rid of two cups of water in urine and another two cups through perspiration and respiration. If you have nothing else to drink or eat, does your weight stay the same throughout that day? So far today I have had about 2/3 cups of water (1/3…
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Do sodas make you forget?
Not to encourage anyone to pour a shot of perfectly good liquor in a diet soda and wake up in the morning with a hangover and no recollection of the night before, but do sodas make you forget? In a mostly distant future and for good that is. Here's some connecting the dots. You can take it or leave it. Visceral fat, known…
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Burning fat while sleeping
For a person whose weight is the same 24 hours earlier or later and who goes to sleep 4 hours after dinner and sleeps 8 hours, his fat burning during sleep might look like an upside down bell curve, starting exactly when he goes to sleep and ends exactly when he wakes up, burning the most in the middle of the night. Yet I…
