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  • Raises Interesting Follow-Up Questions

    The result that the number of fat cells is set in adolescence and remains constant through adulthood, by the bodies fixed fat cell replacement rate boggles my mind. I have questions about pushing the limits of this. The summary talks about people who were overweight in adolescence. What about a person who was lean in adolescence? How much ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by EnergyLawyer on May 14, 2008

  • Sugar-free, too

    I am a guy, and read your article for support of my own sugar free attempt. Thought it was great. I once was a South Beacher - and I do think it a great and healthful diet. However, I fell off the wagon, re-gained the 20 lost pounds, just like all the diet criticizer say you will. But nw, I am trying again to lose weight, and have ientified ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by JohnV on April 5, 2008

  • Why Study is Not Well-Designed

    This study, like many others on inexpensive nutrients, seems designed to fail with it's extremely low dosage of 400IU. If you look into vitamin D, you'll find that the body requires something like 10s of thousands of IU per day. Vitamin D experts have long been saying that daily supplementation should be more like 4000 IU rather than 400. ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by chaves on February 6, 2008

  • 14 years: Vitamin C blood levels

    I'm not comfortable with measuring vegetable/fruit consumption with vitamin C blood levels. What about people taking C supplements? Also, many healthy vegetables contain little C, but a lot of vitamin A and other healthy vitamins and minerals.100 grams of carrots contain 276% RDA Vitamin A, but only 4% RDA of C. This seems biased towards ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Baileyag on January 16, 2008

  • Ab Exercises? Why Crunches & Reps Just Don’t Cut It

    People spend way too much time worrying about their abs and even more time performing too many sets of exercises that aren't even worth doing. For example, some people will do hundreds of crunches or sit-ups each day and wonder why they aren't seeing the progress they'd like. Well, first off, the crunch isn't a great exercise to begin with. Not ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Jesse Cannone on November 5, 2007