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Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by jacques_chester » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:24 AM UTC

nunb wrote: post #70

sodiumphosphate wrote: post #59

There are several comments here regarding the egg debate. Should you avoid eating too many eggs? What is the impact of eggs and other sources of dietary cholesterol on your blood cholesterol levels? I've been wondering about this myself for some time, all the while eating cartons of egg whites for breakfast every day. ericd posted a link[1], which appears to be a good source of information (far more than I have time…

Your body makes most of the cholesterol in you, it's a vital pre-hormone. How much you eat barely changes the amount produced by your body. If you want a better lipid profile, eat more eggs and fewer carbs. Everything above is really well established fact at this point, propagandists like AHA to the contrary. When in doubt, ask the practitioners, at say, leangains.com

The AHA is probably exercising risk management. While dietary cholesterol doesn't affect blood cholesterol for most people, for some people (hyper-responders) it does raise blood cholesterol. Which is a bad thing.

So rather than saying "for most people it's OK, but be sure to get some fiddly blood work done a few times!", the AHA just says "don't do it, in case you're a hyper-responder".

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by rdouble » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:29 AM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #91

nunb wrote: post #70

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Your body makes most of the cholesterol in you, it's a vital pre-hormone. How much you eat barely changes the amount produced by your body. If you want a better lipid profile, eat more eggs and fewer carbs. Everything above is really well established fact at this point, propagandists like AHA to the contrary. When in doubt, ask the practitioners, at say, leangains.com

The AHA is probably exercising risk management. While dietary cholesterol doesn't affect blood cholesterol for most people, for some people (hyper-responders) it does raise blood cholesterol. Which is a bad thing. So rather than saying "for most people it's OK, but be sure to get some fiddly blood work done a few times!", the AHA just says "don't do it, in case you're a hyper-responder".

The studies regarding eggs and cholesterol compare the effects of eating one or two eggs per day to the effects of eating none. There is not much difference between the two diets being compared. There are no studies that compare the effects of an egg free diet to the effects of eating 6-12 eggs per day. If you are eating a bodybuilder diet it's worth getting a metabolic panel to get an idea of what's happening inside.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by aymeric » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:47 AM UTC

mgrouchy wrote: post #44

aymeric wrote: post #21

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Great app, exactly what I needed. I am worried about eating 6 eggs per day. Isn't there a risk of cholesterol?

swap some of the eggs for egg whites, and make up a few calories else where, if you are really worried about cholesterol.

Thanks, will do.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by GFischer » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 2:06 AM UTC

dorian-graph wrote: post #37

papa_bear wrote: post #14

Hey everyone, I made this site. It's very much a work in progress, though if your diet already looks as much like the generated output as it does mine, it will be a great tool! (i.e. eat whatever I can find that barely needs cooking, swallow a shot of olive oil, slight self hatred, etc.) I would, however, like to learn to cook, so I'm working on implementing recipes and a better food selection (it's clearly not worth…

I love it so far. I'm a fit/skinny guy and never been particularly sure on what to eat (I'm ignorant of calories so the 'Not sure' button was brilliant) and your site has been useful. Tie-ins with recipes and what not would be great. Do you plan monetising it somehow?

The "Not sure" suggested what I think were too many calories for me, even though I chose "Sedentary" in my lifestyle.

Maybe I should have put in my target weight instead of my current weight? (I'm 20 kgs overweight, which according to health statistics is in Obesity type 1 territory)

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by itmag » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 9:55 AM UTC

papa_bear wrote: post #86

nunb wrote: post #72

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I too would like to know more.

It's currently all javascript/jquery and PHP, though I'm moving the backend to Django. I'm also messing around with backbone.js, but haven't been able to push myself to make the switch yet.

What about the design?