Evgeny

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by Evgeny 11y ago
Just wanted to thank everyone who contributed - don't know where to put this comment for everyone to see. :) Posted before going to sleep, and didn't expect that many comments at all. What a way to start the day. Still reading.
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by Evgeny 11y ago
My advice for anyone interested in fasting would be to go slow. If never tried it before, start with a 24 hour fast - i.e. eat dinner, then nothing until dinner time the next day. If that went fine, next week try a 36 hour fast - i.e. dinne
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by Evgeny 11y ago
That's awesome. My longest fast was 5 days. My personal experience was that starting from day 3 I was a little "lethargic" or basically slow in the morning, but that feeling went away fairly soon, and by 10 AM I was operating
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Feeling hungry usually kills my concentration especially in early stages (I remember first day being the worst and later you sort of get used to it). And in general I feel weaker and drained. This is the point, isn't it? For me, not
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by Evgeny 11y ago
You are missing the point on what I said - the China study was about plant-based diets. China study was widely critisized, and the author's own data does not support his conclusions. There was a link already in this discussion, here&
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by Evgeny 11y ago
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/red-meat.aspx So ... not a single link to a scientific study on that very long page? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20663065 Collectively,
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by Evgeny 11y ago
In addition there have been quite a number of studies on diet that show people who follow plant-based diets live longer and have fewer health problems These studies have a huge flaw though: vegetarians in Western world very often do it fo
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Do you happen to know (I don't) if "caloric uptake" specifically has been studied closely? No - I also don't know. I haven't seen it mentioned, but I also haven't seen reports about the amount of calories abs
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Some articles are open access. In one case, for example, they used bomb calorimetry: Bomb calorimetry performed on eight batches ofsimilar formula prepared in the research kitchen of the Rockefeller University Hospital between April 1988 a
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by Evgeny 11y ago
if you're not losing weight you're cheating on your diet or lying about your exercise Not necessary lying. But I have read countless stories, where the TLDR; would be "I thought I was eating very little and very healthy but
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by Evgeny 11y ago
You did a fairly decent job of discrediting your "the same thing will 'work' for everybody" statement. My "same thing works for everybody" is, in other words, "every person has a number of calories N, ea
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by Evgeny 11y ago
There are vast differences in caloric requirements between individuals. Between a 2m tall man and a 150cm tall lady, yes. Between any two persons of same gender, similar height and mass, not that vast. One study[1] noted that one standar
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by Evgeny 11y ago
If a person eats less energy than his body requires to function on a daily basis, where would the extra fat mass come from?
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by Evgeny 11y ago
in controlled lab tests, would all subjects lose weight precisely as predicted by a formula that considered their diet and physical activity http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss/ This page ha
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Do you genuinely believe that metabolism doesn't vary across individuals, or for an individual over time? It differs a bit. Therefore, the problem is to find out a particular individual's calorie requirements, which is achieved
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by Evgeny 11y ago
What he described in this article was not just fasting, but a sequence of fasting and non-fasting days. Of course, if you fast for a day, and the next day eat all the calories back and more, you will gain.
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The accuracy of self-reported energy intake using the 24-hour daily recall method has been shown to be consistent across BMI levels: CONCLUSIONS: Under controlled conditions, the USDA five-step multiple-pass method can Yes. We need con
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by Evgeny 11y ago
The more interesting question I think is not whether skipping breakfast might help lose weight, it is whether the weight loss is due to lower overall caloric intake It is overall caloric intake. This link [1] has 20 studies cited that sup
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Studies have shown that overweight people don't necessarily eat more calories or have less active lifestyles than their normal weight peers [1][2][3][4]. These appear to be observational studies based on self reporting. There are mul
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Exercising takes a really long time. Is it possible you're doing it wrong, or maybe we have different understanding of what "really long time" is? I exercise 4 times per week, and my workout lasts 40-60 minutes including sh
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by Evgeny 11y ago
I'm curious what nutrients can only be animal-derived. I came across the following list recently: 1. Vitamin B12 2. Creatine 3. Carnosine 4. Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) 5. Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) 6. Heme-iron 7. Taurine Source:
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by Evgeny 11y ago
Spectacular talk. I used to think I know quite a bit about nutrition, but I learned a lot from it.
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Those on the restricted eating plan initially lost weight, but gained it back when more calories were restored to their diets -- a pattern that many humans dieters will find all too familiar. If you say at some point, "I'm finis
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by Evgeny 12y ago
Actually, there is very little evidence of kidney damage from high protein intake in healthy individuals. This, for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1262767/ Although excessive protein i
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by Evgeny 12y ago
Just search for Protein Sparing Modified Fast. Certainly not just bro science - there were some studies done. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/711361
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by Evgeny 12y ago
I don't think so - there is a widespread confusion about life expectancy. If, for example, child mortality was high compared to modern times, the life expectancy at birth was low. However, for those who survived childhood, the life exp
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by Evgeny 12y ago
It seems more likely to me that it evolved accidentally It is a complex metabolic pathway. My half-educated guess would be that it could not be a result of a mutation.
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I'd say the fact that humans metabolize alcohol (have evolved it) it's a pretty good hint that there was an evolutionary pressure selecting for it. I'm not sure about evolutionary reason "for" drinking. As I under
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by Evgeny 12y ago
I'm not sure how "great" this myth is, considering that I learned about it just from this article. Could be a cultural thing, of course, since I grew up and was educated in Russia/USSR. We had our share of myths I'm

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