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8 votes
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Our food is killing too many of us: Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care
11 votes -
Unhappy meals - How 'food science' made us unhealthy
10 votes -
The Grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
18 votes -
Is a meat-free diet really as healthy as vegetarians claim?
6 votes -
A boy ate only chips and french fries for ten years. This is what happened to his eyes
11 votes -
Stop mocking vegans
32 votes -
When vegan influencers quit being vegan, the backlash can be brutal
6 votes -
UN says humans must transform our diets and land use to save the planet
5 votes -
Lean Cuisine doesn’t want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice?
9 votes -
Vegetarian protein is just as 'complete' as meat, despite what we've been taught
25 votes -
Do cookbooks need nutrition facts?
11 votes -
Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation
4 votes -
Why I’m no longer vegan™ (an argument for political veganism)
4 votes -
Is meat bad for you? Is meat unhealthy?
10 votes -
Jack Dorsey’s diet is wacky. Is it also dangerous?
7 votes -
Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater
4 votes -
Meet Nigeria’s small but growing vegetarian and vegan community
9 votes -
Genetics-based expectations affect your physiology
7 votes -
The gut microbiome as a major regulator of the gut-skin axis
7 votes -
The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it 'biohacking'
13 votes -
The metabolic adaptation manual: Problems, solutions, and life after weight loss
6 votes -
Death of the calorie
19 votes -
A plea to make fiber cool
3 votes -
Sleeping more on weekends does not make up for past sleep loss
10 votes -
Bigger, saltier, heavier: Fast food since 1986 in three simple charts
8 votes -
What you need to get your recommended intake of fruits and vegetables
12 votes -
The boring truths I’ve learned about losing weight and keeping it off
12 votes -
GPs to prescribe very low calorie diets in hope of reversing diabetes
8 votes -
Seven cookbooks for getting started with a paleo diet
5 votes -
I tried the carnivore diet and it broke me after three days
7 votes -
It is truly shocking how much sugar we eat
Have you ever really looked at what you eat? If you have, you may notice one common ingredient present in everything from vegan sauces to certain ketogenic foods. Taking those specific diets into...
Have you ever really looked at what you eat? If you have, you may notice one common ingredient present in everything from vegan sauces to certain ketogenic foods. Taking those specific diets into consideration, the widely accepted figure for keto is <100 grams, and similar in the vegan sphere as well(Often times you'll see a quoted 30 grams, but the kicker always comes in the comments where someone says fruit based sugars don't count towards this. They do, very much so, count towards it). This is far, far, far too much sugar for any one human to be taking in a day. The FDA has no recommended figure for their DV scale of food labels, but other groups certainly do. The World Health Organisation recommends no more than 5% of daily calories be from sugar of all types. This is equivalent to 25 grams for a 2000 calorie diet. The American Heart Association recommends the same figures.
Now, you may be asking yourself, why would the AHA bother themselves with sugar? Certainly that's more for a diabetes association to study than a heart disease one? Well, it's because sugar is heavily linked to heart disease. From the source:
participants who took in 25% or more of their daily calories as sugar were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease as those whose diets included less than 10% added sugar
So, not only are you at risk for heart disease, but there are new studies that suggest alzheimer's is nothing more than a 3rd form of diabetes.
I'm not hoping for much in posting this, except that someone somewhere looks at their diet and resists the stranglehold sugar has on our present society.
35 votes -
Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
12 votes -
Cheese played a surprisingly important role in human evolution
10 votes -
US kids eating more fast food, healthier offerings not helping
11 votes -
Everything you know about obesity is wrong
15 votes -
Mediterranean diet 'may help prevent depression'
3 votes -
The Arctic explorer who pushed an all-meat diet
5 votes -
How a 1907 football team became mascots for vegetarianism
3 votes -
Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in eighteen countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study
4 votes -
Weekly check in! How’d last week go? Goals for this week?
Did you run as far as planned? Lift as much as hoped? Stick to your diet as planned?
5 votes -
Weekly goals for the week/accomplishments of last week
Thought this would be a good idea. We do it in the Megas on reddit. Today is Monday! What are your goals this week? What did you accomplish last week?
8 votes -
Here's what fifty years of food supply data says about Canada's eating habits
9 votes -
Grain-free dog food causing heart problems with certain dog breeds
5 votes -
Koala genome project reveals secrets about its toxic diet and disease
3 votes -
Seven common (non-sleep-related) reasons that people feel tired
8 votes -
This Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup
15 votes -
Trying to become healthier
Hey everyone. I keep a pretty rigorous watch on my calories and I am a vegetarian, so a lot of my meals consist of just vegetables. I am mostly healthy, but I have the hardest time kicking my only...
Hey everyone. I keep a pretty rigorous watch on my calories and I am a vegetarian, so a lot of my meals consist of just vegetables. I am mostly healthy, but I have the hardest time kicking my only real vice: soda. I love it, and I may even be addicted. I gave it up last year for lent, but after my 40 days I immediately started drinking it again. I'm trying to cut back my sugar intake, and I keep finding ways to rationalize drinking it. Anyone out there with tips on how I can kick it for good?
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Advice for getting into shape
So I'm a teen and am starting a new school next year. I get a 12 week break so would really like to try and get in shape, mainly to boost self confidence. What types of exercise / diet would...
So I'm a teen and am starting a new school next year. I get a 12 week break so would really like to try and get in shape, mainly to boost self confidence. What types of exercise / diet would people recommend?
I don't think I'd ever get skinny but I'd I could swap out some fat for muscle that would be fantastic!
13 votes