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Author Topic:   Health 4 Life~The Science Behind Consumption
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Message 6 of 128 (815306)
07-18-2017 4:08 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by New Cat's Eye
07-18-2017 8:38 AM


I would certainly never say don't increase your exercise, but you can, in fact, just starve yourself to weight-loss. It's not healthy, but it'll happen.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that this sort of approach doesn't work long term. As you go on to say:
But if you go from zero to hero in one day then you'll never maintain it.
But if I understand correctly, the working hypothesis is not simply that the lifestyle required is unsustainable, but rather that crash-dieting causes physiological changes in how you process food. The idea is that this is an inbuilt response to famine conditions, and when food is available you will convert more into fat supplies than usual as a buffer against the next famine.
The above is all vaguely remembered stuff, and may well be bullshit.
Something you and RAZD both said that provoked an interesting thought though. I'm familiar with the idea of feeding animals different foods to alter the taste (Gordon Ramsay swears by dark beer in pig feed); but how much do we know about the impact of what we feed our livestock on the nutritional value of their meat?

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Message 14 of 128 (815376)
07-19-2017 4:08 PM
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07-19-2017 8:52 AM


Re: Science & Emotions
And that does not work "half-way"... But I'm pretty sure that I am almost completely out of body-fat.
Isn't that a bad thing? Clearly many people have too much fat, but isn't some useful? We degrade fat to generate heat when it's cold, don't we?

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Message 25 of 128 (815708)
07-23-2017 1:59 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by Faith
07-23-2017 9:09 AM


Re: looking forward to this thread
I also don't get to the store very often these days. I no longer drive, although if my car were functioning maybe I still could. My brother who would take me shopping every few weeks now has a medical condition that makes driving a problem for him so I have to get rides from the volunteer organization. In any case I don't get to the market often enough to stay stocked up on fresh vegetables, which would be the best thing for the kind of regime I'd like to be able to follow.
I have no useful advice on diet, but when it comes to shopping; do you not have some kind of grocery delivery service where you live yet? I still go the shops a lot, but that's because I live in a densely populated area (nearest grocery store is ab 120 yards away' second nearest about 200 yards; and the nearest hypermarket a whopping third of a mile). However, a lot of our groceries we just have delivered. We use it mostly to keep stocked on heavy things that are annoying to carry home (booze, for example), but if we planned better and walking to the shops wasn't so simple, we could easily rely just on deliveries.

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Message 28 of 128 (815715)
07-23-2017 3:26 PM
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07-23-2017 2:45 PM


Re: looking forward to this thread
Nope, no deliveries available here. Also there is no such thing as a "shop" here, by which I suppose you mean a shop that specializes in particular items? Butcher, baker, cheese store etc.? Everything is a supermarket and the nearest one is about a mile. Nothing in Nevada is what you could call "densely populated," and my town is fairly small.
'Shop' in British English just means 'store' (if I understand correctly that store essentially means 'retail outlet'). We do have butchers. bakers, cheese shops etc.; but I don't tend to use them so much because they often tend to open during working hours, and because I don't have time to visit seven different places for my shopping.
But still; I like having them all there for when I do go. I've often thought living somewhere much more rural with real countryside would be nice; but every shop and service I require is currently within walking distance - it would be difficult to adjust from that.
Sorry for the topic detour.

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Message 44 of 128 (816302)
08-02-2017 2:55 PM
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08-02-2017 12:05 PM


Re: Day 16 brings good news
Maybe do some caffeine?
I don't think that would help - loads of carbs and sugar in my diet.

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