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Post by mdomans »

balnaphone wrote: post #348
mdomans wrote: post #340

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> I'm not saying that every person must study these metabolic pathways in detail, but rather that the quick and simple rules and choices people make in daily life should take advantage of what is known, hopefully for a better outcome than what is currently observed. I agree. I'm simply pointing out the fact that with the picture as complex as we know it is I have a knee jerk reaction to people going from "how to have…

> As we go on you reference Fung (and defend him) a fair bit I defend Jason Fung because he's one of the few in this area of science and medicine who has gone to the trouble of writing books that ordinary people can understand, and yet still have some scientific rigor. I could cite innumerable scientific papers that very few have the training to read, or the one author who took the time to write something anyone lite…

Best regard to you too :)

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Post by jbd0 »

Drakim wrote: post #305
gdebel wrote: post #216

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I respectfully disagree. Flour is basically crushed wheat. Refined sugar is not crushed beet, and you would have to eat a lot of beet to eat the same amount of sugar that you eat in a typical "industrial food" diet. I would not take paleo food as a reference, but rather look toward what our grandparents had for lunch when they were kids. I don't think they were doing so badly. And I don't cook like Bocuse everyday, t…

The modern wheat is a product of a lot of breeding, just like we do with dogs. Because of it it's pretty different from anything you can find in nature. Wild varieties of wheat doesn't have nearly as much gluten, and the higher concentration results in a lot more children (myself being one of them) reacting to the protein with an immune disorder(celiac disease). So you can't just say "sugar bad, flour good" as if it…

Exactly. It took me a long time to piece together that modern wheat was making me sick. I don't think I ever would have if I hadn't been so intrigued by the gluten free diet trend and started researching it. I am able to eat whole grain spelt without problems.

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Post by vlod »

GordonS wrote: post #359
vlod wrote: post #358

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As a Brit living in the US, I have a real problem with the sugar in bread. As a bread lover I detest it . Everything I eat DOESN'T have to be sweet. I can't stand it and I avoid it as much as possible. In the last few years, I've started making my own sourdough bread (salt, water, flour, homegrown sourdough yeast) with no chemicals and I'm loving it. I can't remember the last time I've bought bread. (Dutch-oven metho…

Reading this brought back another memory - cinnamon! Now, I like cinnamon as much as anyone, but why the hell is it added to everything in the US!

Oh my.. don't get me talking about cinnamon! It's now at a point I refuse to anything with it in.

The only exception is hot-cross-buns during Easter. :)

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Post by throw1234651234 »

thechao wrote: post #163
throw1234651234 wrote: post #141

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"You can chat with a PT for 50–80$ and they can tell you exactly what's wrong & how to fix it in less than an hour." That's a complete lie. Most PTs don't know anything about anything and will try to milk you for "motivating" you in your workout and keeping a notebook for you on a regular basis. Usually for at least $300-500 a month, even at horrible gyms. By no means will they be able to tell you remotely, let alone…

Someone replied to you, already; I meant “physical therapist”, not “personal trainer”. I don’t have any experience with personal trainers. Sorry for the confusion.

I apologize for misunderstanding. Sometimes a physical therapist can definitely help!

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Post by ssijak »

vfinn wrote: post #316
ssijak wrote: post #223

I do not understand the obsession with keto/low carb diets. There are no long term studies showing the touted magical benefits. Even Gary Taubes, author who amassed wealth bashing carbs and touting keto diet, funded studies that he thought would confirm what he was saying, but then results came in slight favor of high carb diets against low carb high fat diets in terms of losing weight. Yes, processed sugar is crap,…

What is 'now', how long have you been eating this way?

15 months. Genuinely feeling the best on this diet, most energy, mental clarity, happiness, and did not get sick during this period (for the whole life I would get cold/flue about 2-3 times per year on average).

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Post by hinkley »

kleinsch wrote: post #135
hinkley wrote: post #17

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I was a bean pole into my early twenties, and would have been 20 lbs skinnier still if not for cycling. I never gained any more weight until I dumped the classical advice and did my own thing. Everyone tries to compress a workout into a single time interval in the day, where you do n sets of each exercise and then go home. To do three sets in three minutes, you're going to have to pick a very conservative goal. Doing…

What were the exercises you ended up doing at home spread out over the day? Given the current situation, seems like a unique time lots of us could try out that type of workout.

If you're trying to weave a workout into your day, isometric exercises are the quickest exercise. You just need floor space. A dumb-bell or two for the upper arms and torso, put somewhere that you won't stub your toe (you will stub your toe anyway)

Pullups are the trickiest. At the time there was a staircase with open treads near my apartment.

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Post by LegitShady »

chubot wrote: post #98
gdebel wrote: post #51

I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-add…

As a Chinese person born in America, you're absolutely right. If you don't cook, it's difficult to eat reasonably / "normally" in this country, even if you have money. You kind of have to pick your poison: salt, sugar, unnatural fats, etc. At least I grew up on the east coast and my parents cooked. Anecdotally, I'm shocked by what my acquaintances from the midwest eat, and the consequences really start to show up whe…

margerine was invented during napolean's time as a more stable replacement for butter for the military, so it is likely your grandmother knew and used it. Mine did.

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Post by myu701 »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #357
metrokoi wrote: post #345

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That's assuming people go to the Dollar store specifically to buy food instead of going to the grocery store, which is certainly not the norm. People go to the Dollar store to buy food containers, snacks for a road trip, batteries, toothbrushes, etc. That's like assuming people buy groceries at the hardware store; the intended purpose isn't the same. At all of the American grocery stores I've been to, the unfrozen me…

Sorry, should have been more clear. The Dollar Stores are taking over grocery business across America. Its their most popular item (grocery) and many, many people's sole source of groceries. There are many articles about this, and it was even discussed here on HN some months ago. I think its maybe a 'first world' view, that every body goes to Dollar Stores for the same things the upper class go there for. One source…

Anecdote:

We had Dollar G stores open near me. I do get groceries there as my most common item there, but it is in the form of 'grab some sour cream and a block of cheese' just before dinner is done. Dollar G is ~2 minutes down the road from my house, vs. Kroger or Wally World which are ~20 minute drives.

If I am going to go get groceries, I'm going to go to Kroger by default, Walmart if it's a particularly big run, Publix if I'm feeling like burning money, and Dollar G as a last resort, since the latter combines the expensive prices of Publix with the saddest store brand version of a product you can find, if they even have it in stock.

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Post by swyx »

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