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I intermittent fast because It's how we are created. The reason for doing 72 hour fast is because that is what resets the immune/digestive system. fasting also develops self control.
fasting can be used to lose massive amounts of weight and excessive skin from weight loss also. no need for surgery. Dry fasting (something I have not done) saved a diabetics leg/foot.
So why am I so vocal about peoples eating habits.... Mandated insurance policies and the increase of premium rates by the forced insurance of unhealthy people that eat like hogs.
The day you want my voice to go away , will be the day you quit dipping into my savings account.
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I am not, nor have I been over weight, nor under weight.
I intermittent fast because It's how we are created. The reason for doing 72 hour fast is because that is what resets the immune/digestive system. fasting also develops self control.
fasting can be used to lose massive amounts of weight and excessive skin from weight loss also. no need for surgery. Dry fasting (something I have not done) saved a diabetics leg/foot.
So why am I so vocal about peoples eating habits.... Mandated insurance policies and the increase of premium rates by the forced insurance of unhealthy people that eat like hogs.
The day you want my voice to go away , will be the day you quit dipping into my savings account.
I intermittent fast because It's how we are created. The reason for doing 72 hour fast is because that is what resets the immune/digestive system. fasting also develops self control.
fasting can be used to lose massive amounts of weight and excessive skin from weight loss also. no need for surgery. Dry fasting (something I have not done) saved a diabetics leg/foot.
So why am I so vocal about peoples eating habits.... Mandated insurance policies and the increase of premium rates by the forced insurance of unhealthy people that eat like hogs.
The day you want my voice to go away , will be the day you quit dipping into my savings account.
Well, I'm not the guy who claimed to be debilitated by a commonly known disease that I didn't know how to spell. There are other symptoms of health problems besides weight.
I'm sorry that things are going so poorly for you that you felt a need to start this nonsense up again. Feel better, but I'm out.
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stephen colbert is brilliant, but his greatest achievement is the term truthiness: "the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true." when it comes to this diet/nutrition stuff there is so much of that.
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i am not, nor have i been over weight, nor under weight.
I intermittent fast because it's how we are created. The reason for doing 72 hour fast is because that is what resets the immune/digestive system. Fasting also develops self control.
Fasting can be used to lose massive amounts of weight and excessive skin from weight loss also. No need for surgery. Dry fasting (something i have not done) saved a diabetics leg/foot.
So why am i so vocal about peoples eating habits.... Mandated insurance policies and the increase of premium rates by the forced insurance of unhealthy people that eat like hogs.
The day you want my voice to go away , will be the day you quit dipping into my savings account.
I intermittent fast because it's how we are created. The reason for doing 72 hour fast is because that is what resets the immune/digestive system. Fasting also develops self control.
Fasting can be used to lose massive amounts of weight and excessive skin from weight loss also. No need for surgery. Dry fasting (something i have not done) saved a diabetics leg/foot.
So why am i so vocal about peoples eating habits.... Mandated insurance policies and the increase of premium rates by the forced insurance of unhealthy people that eat like hogs.
The day you want my voice to go away , will be the day you quit dipping into my savings account.
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Organic food also uses pesticides, they just have to be certain ones (and that choice isn't made based on toxicity). There's also not much evidence that eating organic produces any significant health benefits.
I don't think "animals pumped with antibiotics and growth hormones" are good for me, but I've yet to see any compelling evidence that this negatively impacts a person's health (fwiw using growth hormones isn't legal in my country).
Given that there is no clear definition of "processed" I'm not sure we can say that. Also, many berries (and many other plants and animals) are highly toxic, yet would be considered non-processed if I picked them right off the bush. IMO, this is too general a statement to make.
There's no evidence of GMO foods being worse for you than non-GMO foods. Also, saying *any* artificial ingredients are bad is again too general of a statement to make IMO.
I suppose this is true, otherwise the given level of consumption wouldn't be considered "excess".
I'm not sure this is true at all.
Weight bearing exercise, and in particular strength training, is an important component of overall health. I agree.
This is true. But the dosage makes the poison.
Nicotine is what keeps you addicted, it's not generally what kills you (although I'm sure it is "bad" for you).
The dosage makes the poison. I'm not aware of any evidence that says moderate amounts are bad.
Again, the dosage makes the poison. The problem isn't sugar (which is just glucose and fructose, both of which are exactly the same as the glucose and fructose that exists in healthy natural "unprocessed" foods). It's that people eat too much of it.
Common sense may not be as common as it seems. Don't just fall for buzzwords and whatever the latest hype is.
I don't think "animals pumped with antibiotics and growth hormones" are good for me, but I've yet to see any compelling evidence that this negatively impacts a person's health (fwiw using growth hormones isn't legal in my country).
Given that there is no clear definition of "processed" I'm not sure we can say that. Also, many berries (and many other plants and animals) are highly toxic, yet would be considered non-processed if I picked them right off the bush. IMO, this is too general a statement to make.
There's no evidence of GMO foods being worse for you than non-GMO foods. Also, saying *any* artificial ingredients are bad is again too general of a statement to make IMO.
I suppose this is true, otherwise the given level of consumption wouldn't be considered "excess".
I'm not sure this is true at all.
Weight bearing exercise, and in particular strength training, is an important component of overall health. I agree.
This is true. But the dosage makes the poison.
Nicotine is what keeps you addicted, it's not generally what kills you (although I'm sure it is "bad" for you).
The dosage makes the poison. I'm not aware of any evidence that says moderate amounts are bad.
Again, the dosage makes the poison. The problem isn't sugar (which is just glucose and fructose, both of which are exactly the same as the glucose and fructose that exists in healthy natural "unprocessed" foods). It's that people eat too much of it.
Common sense may not be as common as it seems. Don't just fall for buzzwords and whatever the latest hype is.
As far as cycling, no, cycling alone is not sufficient and is probably not even necessary to be in the best of health. Again, weight bearing exercise is far more important.
Riding a bike is more beneficial for health than driving, but walking is actually a better form of exercise than bicycling. Basically, cycling is better than doing nothing at all, but inferior to walking and weight training. And running on concrete is very bad for your joints.
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The medical industry and medical research are so corrupted by corporations like monsanto you'd be a fool to believe ANY research findings from mainstream "medical" and "scientific" sources. All mainstream doctors have sold out to the pharmaceutical companies. All of them. And this has been true for at least two decades, probably longer.
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The medical industry and medical research are so corrupted by corporations like monsanto you'd be a fool to believe ANY research findings from mainstream "medical" and "scientific" sources. All mainstream doctors have sold out to the pharmaceutical companies. All of them. And this has been true for at least two decades, probably longer.
As far as cycling, no, cycling alone is not sufficient and is probably not even necessary to be in the best of health. Again, weight bearing exercise is far more important.
Riding a bike is more beneficial for health than driving, but walking is actually a better form of exercise than bicycling. Basically, cycling is better than doing nothing at all, but inferior to walking and weight training. And running on concrete is very bad for your joints.
Riding a bike is more beneficial for health than driving, but walking is actually a better form of exercise than bicycling. Basically, cycling is better than doing nothing at all, but inferior to walking and weight training. And running on concrete is very bad for your joints.
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just to point out the obvious here.
You ridicule fasting, yet you have ZERO understanding of it. Which explains the ridicule.
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His argument, and the only study he shows that isn't a straw man, is that of the Big Loser contestants.
Eating less is bad but eating nothing is better. That's his argument. He provides one study about fasting for 4 days showing no ill effects. He then suggests you can fast for 12 hours, 12 days, or even 382 days and provides no evidence whatsoever on the effects of fasting that long.
He ends his talk with woo. We should fast because Jesus thought it was good.
There's more but I'm on my phone and typing is a pain. That 36 minute video was crap.
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Oh, and for the record, I wasn't implying that "resetting" the immune system leads to weight loss. I was ridiculing the fact that:
1. You think it's somehow possible, or desirable to reset someones immune system
2. You think that starving yourself is how this gets done
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seriously, you're resorting to calling someone a Nazi as a first response to me?
I have about 8 years of advanced public health research education and a career in health, what the heck is your resume to demonstrate any ability to critically analyze scientific material? you don't have to answer because you're going on my ignore list
I have about 8 years of advanced public health research education and a career in health, what the heck is your resume to demonstrate any ability to critically analyze scientific material? you don't have to answer because you're going on my ignore list
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He erects strawman arguments attributing them to "everyone".
His argument, and the only study he shows that isn't a straw man, is that of the Big Loser contestants.
Eating less is bad but eating nothing is better. That's his argument. He provides one study about fasting for 4 days showing no ill effects. He then suggests you can fast for 12 hours, 12 days, or even 382 days and provides no evidence whatsoever on the effects of fasting that long.
He ends his talk with woo. We should fast because Jesus thought it was good.
There's more but I'm on my phone and typing is a pain. That 36 minute video was crap.
His argument, and the only study he shows that isn't a straw man, is that of the Big Loser contestants.
Eating less is bad but eating nothing is better. That's his argument. He provides one study about fasting for 4 days showing no ill effects. He then suggests you can fast for 12 hours, 12 days, or even 382 days and provides no evidence whatsoever on the effects of fasting that long.
He ends his talk with woo. We should fast because Jesus thought it was good.
There's more but I'm on my phone and typing is a pain. That 36 minute video was crap.
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The notion that we were built to intermittent fast is based on a couple of faulty logic arguments.
1. Some notion of a predetermined way we "should" be. Some religious people think we were created to be a certain fixed way but that is a faith based idea and not science based. Pretty well no one does anything the way we used to if you go back far enough.
2. But that's the way the cave men were. Well, they may have just been surviving from meal to meal and not as healthy as they could have been. High mortality and low life expectancy seems to back this up. With the evolution of agriculture and predictable regular availability of food, survival and health rates seem to have risen.
1. Some notion of a predetermined way we "should" be. Some religious people think we were created to be a certain fixed way but that is a faith based idea and not science based. Pretty well no one does anything the way we used to if you go back far enough.
2. But that's the way the cave men were. Well, they may have just been surviving from meal to meal and not as healthy as they could have been. High mortality and low life expectancy seems to back this up. With the evolution of agriculture and predictable regular availability of food, survival and health rates seem to have risen.
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seriously, you're resorting to calling someone a Nazi as a first response to me?
I have about 8 years of advanced public health research education and a career in health, what the heck is your resume to demonstrate any ability to critically analyze scientific material? you don't have to answer because you're going on my ignore list
I have about 8 years of advanced public health research education and a career in health, what the heck is your resume to demonstrate any ability to critically analyze scientific material? you don't have to answer because you're going on my ignore list
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A good post on Calories In/Calories Out that sums up what I believe:
https://www.precisionnutrition.com/c...n-calories-out
I saw this a few days ago on Facebook and thought of this thread right away.
https://www.precisionnutrition.com/c...n-calories-out
I saw this a few days ago on Facebook and thought of this thread right away.
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2. But that's the way the cave men were. Well, they may have just been surviving from meal to meal and not as healthy as they could have been. High mortality and low life expectancy seems to back this up. With the evolution of agriculture and predictable regular availability of food, survival and health rates seem to have risen.
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