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I suppose it's related, that for athletes, ice baths after exercising are to be avoided because they hinder hypertrophy.
I'm not sure there is a consensus on ice baths at this stage? Some athletes swear by it, some say it's useless, and last I looked at it the science was ambivalent (somewhere between small to no effect, either positive or negative).
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What exactly do we need to unlearn about Fats vs Sugars vs Proteins?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18296750 : > This article examines how faith in science led physicians and patients to embrace the low-fat diet for heart disease prevention and weight loss. Scientific studies dating from the late 1940s showed a correlation between high-fat diets and high-cholesterol levels, suggesting that a low-fat diet might prevent heart disease in high-risk patients. By the 1960s, the low-fat die…
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> Many Americans subscribed to the ideology of low fat
The "low-fat guidelines made people fat" nonsense would carry more weight if people actually followed the guidelines, but they didn't.
