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Pinguinsan

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    Comment #26815855

    The group of people you're referencing (Inuit people btw, Eskimo is a slur) have some of the highest obesity rates in the world! The Nunavuts have an obesity rate of 48%! The ethio…

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    Comment #26801179

    You're saying that eating excess calories in the form of fat won't be stored as fat? That's the most efficient pathway and was critical to our survival. What you're referring to (e…

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    Comment #26789182

    The first law of thermodynamics takes issue with this. A calorie is a unit of measure for energy.

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    Comment #26789160

    I never said they didn't. I said that a diet, when controlled for calorie levels, will yield identical fat gain/loss.

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    Comment #26789150

    Well the person I responded to is claiming equicaloric diets lead to different levels of fat gain.

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    Comment #26773507

    Are you saying that a diet from higher carbs will produce more fat gain than an equicaloric low carb diet?

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    Comment #26773500

    What is the cutoff for elite athletes vs non-elites? A 5 minute mile? 6 minute mile? Why would there be a discontinuous jump between what a lay person should do versus a profesiona…

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    Comment #26770657

    Effective for what? Body composition? Fitness? If the latter, please explain why all elite endurance athletes do the overwhelming majority (>95%) of their training at low intensiti…

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    Comment #26770644

    Eating low carb and switching to high carb will cause significant water weight increase due to increased muscle glycogen. On the order of 5-10lbs. It's not fat.

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    Comment #26461991

    That's a fair point. It's all qualitative right now.

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    Comment #26461983

    Roughly the past year or two.

  13. story
    Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?

    Recently, it's seemed that Google has failed to find answers for information I've been seeking. Even using keyword search, it's been returning very poor informative information. Ha…

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    Comment #26085529

    This isn't meant to be snarky, but why would we need a cross-platform UI toolkit for a (by definition) Linux only installer?

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    Comment #25641902

    Does the vaccine prevent transmission?

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    Comment #25568371

    Has the vaccine been shown to prevent transmission?

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    Comment #25127398

    Indiana has had a mask mandate since May. Our compliance has been great >95%, yet our cases are skyrocketing.

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    Comment #25100699

    Nice source you have there.

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    Comment #23901150

    I dislike your use of the word "literally" immediately preceding something that did not, in fact, literally happen.

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    Comment #23878700

    How many kids have long term effects?

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    Comment #23878649

    Because I am selfish and, by and large, don't care about others. Selfish? Yes. Just being honest.

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    Comment #23878646

    You are part of the problem. Stop while you're behind.