What you eat, when and why.
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General nutrition for normal people where weight loss isn't a goal [closed]
I've always been at a healthy weight and now I'm in my 30's I want to make sure that I'm taking care of myself and consuming the right foods.
Considering there is so much information out there, bias, ...
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Does fiber cause heartburn?
We're apparently supposed to increase fiber slowly into any new diet, which is what I have been doing. I have simply switched from white bread to brown bread (whole wheat). For some reason I am ...
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Hay diet's effectiveness
Does the Hay diet (essentially not mixing protein based food with carbohydrate based foods in the same meal) actually produce good results? Are such restrictions unhealthy or excessive?
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How to lose weight and be able to do mental work?
My problem is that when I start losing weight I feel so exausted that:
I'm angry
I'm dumb and cannot do any mental work
I always want to cheat my diet in the end of the day
All those ads say that ...
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Should I be getting more calories? [closed]
I've been using the Lose It! iPhone app for a few months now and it seems I'm pretty consistently well under my daily calorie budget, even on days when I'm very careful to get the measurements right. ...
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How bad of a vice is gum chewing?
I'm currently on a paleo diet which means I'm supposed to cut out sugar, however, I still chew sugarfree gum after lunch usually (Maybe 2 or 3 pieces a day). My question is this: how detrimental is ...
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Adding calories when switching from a weight-loss diet to maintenance diet.
When going from a weight loss diet to a maintenance how should one add additional calories?
Should you slowly add calories each week until getting to maintenance level or add all additonal calories ...
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Why do I keep regaining weight and feel lethargic on my diet?
I am posting a composite profile of a chronic dieter who doesn't seem to get anywhere from both my own experience and others.
I've read about BMR, calories, and I get it. Fewer calories in, more ...
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As a hardgainer, how do I get the right balance of calories to add size without adding fat?
I am a prototypical hardgainer, 23 years old and never weighed over 10 stone until recently when I started lifting weights again (lifted in the past and never saw any noticeable gains).
I read in an ...
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Lost weight and getting fit - where to go from here?
I've maintained a pretty poor diet for most of my adult life, and as a software developer, I've spent most of my time behind a desk with very little exercise.
Since New Year 2011 I've lost nearly 2st ...
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Tracking What We Eat?
My wife and I have both recently been discussing how we can eat healthier. We've been planning menus involving lots of fruit and vegetables, complex carbohydrates, low sugars, good fats, etc. However, ...
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How do I determine what a paleo diet is?
Prior to the invention of agriculture, humans lived in numerous climates, ecosystems and environments. So, exactly what is a "paleo" diet?
For example, at some point in time before the origin of ...
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Does the existence of trans fat invalidate years of research on saturated fats?
If only relatively recently trans fats were discovered to be much worse for you then saturated fats, does that have implications on past research on saturated fats? Is that research now outdated? Can ...
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Should I always listen to my body when it comes to consuming lots of protein?
I'm a big believer in listening to my body. I stay on a strict and healthy diet, but once in a while my body craves fat, so I'll opt for french fries to that it out of my system.
Same when I go to ...
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What is the least damaging way to eat unhealthy food? [closed]
I've been on a reduced calories diet for past 4 months and lost about 20kg, but I keep on getting sweet tooth.
The main unhealthy thing that I eat is mostly 85% chocolate, which I usually eat after ...
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What's the logic behind the Food Pyramid [closed]
People these days seem to all be crazy about low carb, slow carb, Atkins, and South Beach diets, but the USDA Food Pyramid suggests we eat more grains than anything else in a day, with at least half ...
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Is eating only fruits for breakfast healthy?
I'm an athlete and trying to find what constitutes the healthiest breakfast I can eat. I'm considering wholemeal bread, bran flakes and fruits. So far fruits seem to be the tastiest option, but are ...
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What to replace large quantities of meat with in my diet? [closed]
My family are all big meat eaters. We are country people who like to BBQ.
A recent article on BBC news says that
adults are advised to consume on
average no more than 70g
of red meat per ...
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Is 3400 calories a day unreasonable for me?
Was reading one of the answers to this question that based on the calculation suggests I intake 3400 calories a day.
I have a scale at home that measures body fat and also calculate about the same ...
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Practical and Tasty choices for a high protein diet [closed]
I'm looking for some practical yet tasty solutions for a high protein diet. I like food that has intense flavour.
In a bid for this question not to be closed, can you please post a bit of ...
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Nutritional difference between Sweet and Regular potatoes. [closed]
I've been wondering about this for some time now.
A LOT of diets include sweet potatoes as a source of complex carbs, which would be just fine, if I lived in US. Since I don't there aren't any ...
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Protein of red and white meat
Is there a difference between the protein found in red meat (like beef and ostrich) and white meat (like chicken and pork) and protein from fish and should you aim to get these in in any particular ...
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Light workout with cereal diet to reduce fat
I am doing very light workout, e.g. 10 push-ups a day. I want to know that if I keep my diet to cereals with full-cream milk, will it have any effect on my belly fat?
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Will calories from drinking spirits effect my diet
How do alcohol calories work. I'm not talking beer, but straight gin or vodka. I've heard it's about 100 calories per ounce, and it's not digested by your normal digestion system, but your liver. ...
