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Exercise Alters Our Microbiome

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Post by Jemmeh »

DiThi wrote: post #236
Jemmeh wrote: post #228

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Potatoes are high carb, and high carb makes most people fat. To be fair, bananas are high carb too. Also fat doesn't make you fat. A lot of people actually rapidly lose weight on a ketogenic diet with approx 70% of their food being healthy fats. The Story of Fat: Why we were Wrong about Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY

You may want to remove the "t=88s". That's an excellent video I recommended many times, by the way. It has a text version with many sources linked in the description, and the rest of the channel is very good too.

Oh, thanks! I recommend it a lot too, so I guess it started partially into the video because I watched it again. Whoops.

I love that channel. Entertaining, informative, and succinct. I've learned a lot from it.

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Post by meuk »

devmunchies wrote: post #204
ThomPete wrote: post #131

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Fat isnt a problem. You can eat as much fat as you want(of course general advice goes about eating varied) as long as it doesent come with carbs. Its the carbs you need to lookk out for (which are also in potatoes)

Stop saying this. It's filling your arteries with plaque. If you cut out most fat and eat high amount of unrefined carbs, you will also lose weight. But it has the added benefit of not pumping your circulatory system full of sludge. you can eat "as much as you want" as long as you are cutting carbs is because your body is in burn mode because it's deprived of energy. It's bad for you in the long term. Why anyone thin…

I always learned this in highschool:

Both fat and sugar cause high cholesterol. Polyunsaturated fat is better than unsaturated fat is better than saturated fat is better than transfat (which you really should avoid).

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Post by smileysteve »

andreime wrote: post #166
prepend wrote: post #150

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58% of adult Europeans are overweight with 23% obese. These rates are much better than the US, but it seems like Europe hasn’t yet figured out the whole healthy diet issue.

I am considered overweight because a doctor calculated my BMI and said I'm two kilos over where I should be. BMI is a the ratio between weight and height. I think it's kind of stupid but it got me labeled as overweight.

BMI is a standard that applies to both women and men, so if your body fat is It also applies less as you pass 2 standard deviations of average height.

So, if you are 6'1 and have bulky shoulders and no belly, your bmi should actually be on the high side. Warning signs are when you see ribs or when you can pinch belly fat.

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Post by newfoundglory »

hycaria wrote: post #81
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #6

I dropped all forms of sugar and corn syrup a few months ago. I was never a health nut. Quite the opposite. It's incredible how much your physiology alters just from that. Water tastes good now. I used to drink water with crystal light, because it was so bland. Shed 20lbs without even exercising. I eat bananas, apples, peanut butter and chicken. Learned to cook a few things. You sort of have to, if you want to avoid…

I don't get why you would exclude potatoes and eat bananas. They are very very similar foods. Everything that is flour based is refined, lacks fiber etc so I get the pasta and bread exclusion, but the potatoes one makes no sense imo. Overall in this thread, once again americans discover that they eat shit and simply cooking meals yourself from scratch (with limited fat of course) with no treats between meals makes yo…

> For Europeans, the whole USA deal with food is really laughable.

That's true, but that's also unfortunately a very ignorant attitude given that half of Europeans are overweight and an increasing percentage is obese. The common perception that obesity rates in America are some bizarre cultural oddity does not help people learn from them and avoid it recurring in other countries. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

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Post by Jemmeh »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #6

I dropped all forms of sugar and corn syrup a few months ago. I was never a health nut. Quite the opposite. It's incredible how much your physiology alters just from that. Water tastes good now. I used to drink water with crystal light, because it was so bland. Shed 20lbs without even exercising. I eat bananas, apples, peanut butter and chicken. Learned to cook a few things. You sort of have to, if you want to avoid…

Exercise has a lot of great benefits even though it's effect on weight loss is rather minimal. One of the biggest reasons I personally work out is for the ability to learn faster. Exercise gives you more Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) which "improves the function of neurons, encourages their growth, and strengthens and protects them against the process of cell death."

"WHY Exercise is so Underrated (Brain Power & Movement Link)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVzKCk066g

"We found that vocabulary learning was 20 percent faster after intense physical exercise as compared to the other two conditions." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17185007

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Post by smileysteve »

dnate wrote: post #54
log_base_login wrote: post #12

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While I applaud your efforts to eat well, I'd posit that with some attention, you could measurably decrease the expense if you factor in certain foods and factor out others. For example, I enjoy tacos as lunch a few times a week. I make them from scratch, and while this doesn't adhere to your recommendation of no starches, I doubt they cost me $1.00 per taco, and that's with avocado, beans, onions, and peppers (plus…

I am quite surprised to see a recommendation to shop at Walmart on HN. I thought it was common knowledge that Walmart is a pretty terrible company and that people shouldn't support that? Sure, you save money, but at what cost?

Walmart has been the subject of political grandstanding by both parties. Over the last decade, Walmart has increased wages, benefits, and locally produced products (including food).

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

oil7abibi wrote: post #223
hycaria wrote: post #81

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I don't get why you would exclude potatoes and eat bananas. They are very very similar foods. Everything that is flour based is refined, lacks fiber etc so I get the pasta and bread exclusion, but the potatoes one makes no sense imo. Overall in this thread, once again americans discover that they eat shit and simply cooking meals yourself from scratch (with limited fat of course) with no treats between meals makes yo…

Woah there, bananas and potatoes are not similar foods at all. Yes they both primarily provide carbs, but the glycemic index of bananas is 48, while potatoes are at from 82-111 ( https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce... ). Don’t make incorrect assertions.

Indeed! I would rather eat a Snicker bar than a baked potato (if I had no bananas handy).

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Post by arstin »

jnordwick wrote: post #214
3131s wrote: post #163

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Olive or coconut oil typically. I go for things like kale, carrots, cauliflower, beets, sweet potatoes, okra, squash, asparagus, etc. It's really easy to make these taste great without much cooking skill. I always add a little salt, but otherwise I don't want to overpower the natural sweetness and flavor of these vegetables with anything else.

Coconut is mostly saturated fat and terrible for you. Ugh. Every professional body recommends against it.

Some more info on how the old line that "saturated fat is bad" might not be so simple.

https://examine.com/nutrition/is-saturated-fat-bad-for-me/

You can even find people who are into various forms "traditional foods" (not diet trends like paleo...though maybe that too?) go further than more cautious articles like this in affirming -benefits- of saturated fat. Catherine Shanahan for example argues in Deep Nutrition that saturated fat can be good.

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Post by 2218653 »

Najtmare wrote: post #167
tinymollusk wrote: post #73

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In a similar situation I've felt subjectively less hungry / performed better if I take some branch chain amino acids in the AM. Dunno if this makes the IF "invalid" -- I never felt significantly different during an IF. But commuting on my bike, I frequently felt weak if I was fasting, and BCAA stopped that. YMMV.

Anything besides water breaks the IF period.

While BCAAs do break your fast, that's not entirely true. For example, green tea, black coffee, ACV, and likely others do not break your fast.

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Post by always_good »

hycaria wrote: post #78
stevenwoo wrote: post #44

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A difference is if one eats an apple or banana, one gets some fiber and substance to food that probably satiates appetite more than straight sugar does. Most of the calories in peanut butter come from fat - this probably satiates hunger more than eating the equivalent amount of sugar as well.

But there are as much fiber in potatoes as in bananas. Both foods are similar. So excluding potatoes (as in example above) makes no sense to me...

How do their micronutrient profiles compare?
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